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.

Preview the current issue
Issue 189 (March/April 2021)
Shopping guides:
- Electricity & gas Suppliers
- Heat Pumps
- Solar Thermal
- Solar PV
The magazine includes:
- score tables rating and comparing the brands
- Best Buy recommendations
- which binoculars are linked to hunting and the military?
- the best green tariffs
- spotlight on energy companies and damaging projects
- grants and payments for renewable energy
- why you should buy a heat pump
- which companies fund the arms used in the war on Yemen
- the state of the UK ethical market
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Back issues
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Issue 172
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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Issue 171
Product Guides: Fridges & Freezers, Washing Machines, Cookers, ovens & hobs, Kettles
Features: Which cameras and binoculars are wildlife friendly
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Issue 170
Product Guides to Fragrances, Underwear, Soft Drinks and Fruit Juice
Special Report: Carbon offset schemes
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Issue 169
Product Guides: Milk, Plant milk, Bottled water, Beer & Lager
Feature: Companies House, Lush Spring Prize
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Issue 168
Product Guides: High Street Clothes Shops, Ethical Clothes Shops, Jeans, Designer Brands
Features: Fairtrade gold
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Issue 167
Product Guides: Electricity & Gas, Light bulbs, , Gas Boilers, Solar PV Panels
Features: What's all the fuss about B Corps?
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Issue 166
Product Guides: Bananas, Baked Beans, Supermarkets, Tinned Tuna
Features: How to boycott Trump
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Issue 165
Product Guides: Shampoo, Toothpaste, Make-up, Laundry Detergent
Features: The growth of the ethical market, Phasing out the for-profit corporation
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Issue 164
Product Guides: Batteries, Bookshops, Mobile Phone Networks, Razors & Shavers
Features: What's wrong with the NFU?
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Issue 163
Product Guides: Laptops & Hybrids, Mobile phones, Tablets & E-readers
Features: Boycott Brexit, Animal welfare in Japan
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Issue 162
Product Guides: Shoes, Trainers, Walking Boots, Sportswear
Features: How can we challenge Amazon's monopoly power?
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Issue 161
Product Guides: Current & Savings Accounts, Mortgages, Pensions, Cash ISAs, Fossil-free Funds
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Issue 160
Product Guides: Meat-free sausages & burgers, Rice, Cooking Oil, Supermarkets
Features: Veg box schemes
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Issue 159
Product guides: Televisions, Paid-for TV, Cameras
Features: The links between binocular companies and hunting for sport, Fighting conflict minerals in electronics
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Issue 158
Product guides: Clothes Shops, Jeans, Waterproof jackets
Features: Synthetic biology
Corporate lobbying at the COP21 climate summit
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Issue 157
Product guides: Cat & Dog food, Instant & Ground Coffee, Perfume & Aftershave
Features: Amazon's tax turnaround? Ethical charity sponsorship and climate change