At your fingertips are more than 180 Buyers' Guides, on products and services from bread to bank accounts, each with a score table of ethical ratings, best buy recommendations, and a written product report with links and references. 

On the basic score table each product we've reviewed is rated from 0 - 20 marks.

0 is the worst possible rating, and 20 is the best. The score is calculated by how it rates against our 19 ethical rating categories.

The ground-breaking sliders next to our live score tables let you personalise the company rankings by adjusting the relative weighting of the five ethical ratings categories. 

A good way to watch how the sliders work is to set all five sliders to zero by moving them to the far left. All the companies will now automatically score 14 marks and sort themselves alphabetically:

Next, gradually introduce your most important issue by moving the slider to the far right with your cursor. You can now see which company falls down the list – and which moves up to the top. You can move the different sliders about to personalise these ratings.

Example 1 - Environmental Ethics

So for example if you feel that environmental issues are the most important issue to you, begin by setting all five sliders to zero on the far left. Next move the Environment slider to the far right. You can now see that the company scores have changed which in turn have affected the rankings of the companies: 

Example 2 - Human Rights

On the other hand if you're most concerned about human rights then no problem. Again set all five sliders to zero and then move the People slider to the far right. As before you can now see that the company scores have changed which in turn have affected the rankings of the companies:

So why do the company scores change just because the sliders are moved?

The relative position of the sliders change the company scores simply because every company has a unique ethical and environmental record. 

For example some companies may have a good policy on climate change but have a poor record on workers' rights. Others may have a bad record on animal rights but make a product with which is highly energy efficient. 

Our sliders takes the hard work out of deciding which product best reflects your own personal ethics and beliefs.

Refining your personal scores

You may have noticed the + sign next to each category name. Clicking on this expands your options to personalise the ratings.

So for example under environment, you may be most concerned about climate change, and in favour of nuclear power. 

Saving your personalised weightings

Subscribers can permanently save their personalised weightings which will be used to calculate their personalised scores across the whole site. Registered Users can save weightings for the duration of a single visit. 

Click on 'More Detail' on the scoretable to see the more detailed Scorecard. This shows the 'black marks' for each product, by category. The bigger the mark, the worse the score.

So for example a big black circle  under 'Worker Rights' shows that the company making this product has been severely criticised for worker abuses:

Delve deeper into our data by clicking on a Brand name on the Score table.

This will take you to a Product page where you can see in more detail how we have rated a product. Again, you can use the sliders to customise the scores you see.

Click on a story under Category Scores (like in the table shown here) to see one of the research references.

If you click on the name of the Company which owns the product, you'll be taken to the Company Details page. Here you can find company information and more research references.

You can also send a Brickbat or Bouquet...

This is a one-click tool for sending an email to the company, either praising or damning them for their ethics. 

We have created a generic email which you can edit, and even send a copy to yourself.

This kind of feedback is a powerful tool in getting companies to change how they operate.

Research Reports

Our 'Buyers Guide Plus' research reports are free to Subscribers, or £3 each otherwise.

These 30-50 page pdf documents are handy printable versions of our buyers guides, with:

• full article and Best Buy recommendations
• a detailed ratings table showing how the brands score in each of our 19 categories
• all the stories from our database that we used to rate the brands
• details of company ownership and full contact details
• live links to all the websites in the report plus definitions of all the categories used to rate the companies

Back Issues

Our back issue catalogue has pdf versions of every Magazine issue since May 2008.

These cost £4.25 each or are free to Subscribers.

The site search at the top of each page has 3 different search options:

• Site: searches the whole site, for freely available content
• Product: searches only for individual product details (only available to subscribers)
• Companies: searches only for companies and takes you to the company data page (only available to subscribers)

Boycotts

Want to know which companies are being boycotted? The Consumer Boycotts section includes the only list of active consumer boycotts. You'll also find a wealth of other information.

Positive Buying

Being an ethical consumer is about rewarding good companies as much as boycotting the bad. This new Positive Buying section has tips, guides, and information on our best buy label and new ethical business directory.

Comment and Analysis

All of the features from the Magazine are here, usually from 6 months after they are first published. The Comment & Analysis section also includes specialist academic and market research about the ethical sector.

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