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Ethical Consumer Magazine

Ethical Consumer Magazine is an indispensable read for any independent thinker.

Each issue features detailed product guides, news of ethical products and campaigns, in-depth features, opinion, comment, boycott updates, readers' letters, and much more. Discover the truth behind the products we buy and the companies we buy them from.

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Issue 181 (Nov/Dec 2019)

 

Computers and Phones Special Issue

Product guides:

  • Mobile phones
  • Mobile phone networks
  • Laptops
  • 2-in-1 laptops
  • Desktop computers

The magazine includes:

  • Best Buy recommendations
  • the carbon cost of computers
  • what companies are doing about using conflict minerals
  • what's happening with all the e-waste?
  • spotlight on Fairphone and The Phone Co-op
  • tax avoidance in the tech industry
  • which brands are linked to the Amazon forest fires

 

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Issue 182 (Jan/Feb 2020)

Product Guides to: Batteries, TVs, Cameras, Email Providers, Broadband, Pay TV

Published mid December

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    Feature: Should we boycott Boots The Chemist?

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    Features: Online shopping vs the high street, our 2018 manifesto

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    Plus, guide to Restaurants

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    Features: Lush Spring Prize, Our new tax havens list

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    Ethical Finance special: guides to current accounts, savings accounts, cash isas, app banks, ethical pensions, ethical investment funds, home insurance, car insurance

    Feature: The Modern Slavery Act - are companies complying

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    Product Guides: Fridges & Freezers, Washing Machines, Cookers, ovens & hobs, Kettles

    Features: Which cameras and binoculars are wildlife friendly

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    Special Report: Carbon offset schemes

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    Feature: Companies House, Lush Spring Prize

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    Product Guides: High Street Clothes Shops, Ethical Clothes Shops, Jeans, Designer Brands

    Features: Fairtrade gold

  • Issue 167

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    Product Guides: Electricity & Gas, Light bulbs, , Gas Boilers, Solar PV Panels

    Features: What's all the fuss about B Corps?

  • Issue 166

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    Product Guides: Bananas, Baked Beans, Supermarkets, Tinned Tuna

    Features: How to boycott Trump

  • Issue 165

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    Product Guides: Shampoo, Toothpaste, Make-up, Laundry Detergent

    Features: The growth of the ethical market, Phasing out the for-profit corporation