Beyond the Bottom Line: Fair Trade in Potomac

One Potomac resident is doing what he can to better the world through fair trade and great handbags.

Ed Edmundson has been chosen for Huffington Post's Greatest Person of the Day feature. This story will be featured on the Huffington Post website on Jan. 25.   Making the rounds during the Internet start-up craze in the 1990s, Potomac resident Ed Edmundson worked to help develop the product marketing and business development strategies of convergence communication companies such as Eatel and Geocities. Now, Edmundson is one businessman in a growing trend of entrepreneurs working to better the world through the business of fair trade. But Edmundson takes that trend one step further – he hasn’t pocketed a dime in eight years. After the dot-com bubble burst in the mid- 1990s, Edmundson wanted to start a business on his own terms. Ten years …

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