Features

 
Ethical Consumer magazine has been publishing features on the social and environmental impacts of business, developments in the ethical market place and political consumer activism since 1989.

Weighing up the ethics of climate change

Carbon Calculators are essential tools for the growing movement of voluntary carbon reduction, but they can also misrepresent the costs of climate change. Dan Welch investigates and recommends some of best…

The Ethical Consumer Manifesto Six Years On
In September 2001 we published the Ethical Consumer Manifesto for Change. six years later, in 2007, Dan Welch took a look at which recommendations had made it into policy, which areas had progressed and which areas saw no movement.

Can Fair Trade make Trade Fair? 

Dr. Nicola Scott looks at the full range of fair trade and alternative ethical trading standards.