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Beauty products often come wrapped in excessive plastic. Hanna Pumfrey, founder of online beauty shop Acala, shares her tips on how to go plastic-free
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In October, Traidcraft announced that they might be forced to cease trading. This blog is an update and it's good news!
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TCO Certified is a certification scheme for IT products. We talked to Clare Hobby at TCO Certified about sustainability in the technology sector.
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Rowan Phillimore, Deputy Director at The Gaia Foundation , talks about their stunning new photography exhibition, We Feed the World.
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Merle Büter looks at anti-Amazon activities in Germany.
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In the UK, many plants go to seed in late summer or autumn. Here’s a few tips on saving your own seeds, swapping them, and a bit about why you should.
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Three partners, including Carbon Co-op and Stitched Up, have withdrawn from the Manchester Science Festival following news that Shell will be the major sponsor of The Manchester-based Science and Industry Museum (SIM)’s new exhibition – ‘Electricity: the spark of life’. This exhibition is due to launch alongside the Science Festival on the 18th…
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Burberry’s collection at London Fashion Week this September was fur-free. The CEO of Burberry, Marco Gobbetti, claims that it is now “making a firm commitment on it”.
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Sportswear giant Nike sparked a twitter storm in September when their new ad campaign featured Colin Kaepernick, an American football (NFL) player, who protested against racial injustice and police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem in 2016.
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On the opening day of London Fashion Week in September, Friends of the Earth (FoE) called on the fashion industry to do more to tackle plastic pollution as new figures highlighted that the sector is a ‘significant contribution’ to the problem.
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The battle against plastic waste is one of the biggest environmental issues right now, but are we ever going to win the war, asks Simon Birch?
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Rainforest Alliance and UTZ are asked to bolster their standards when they merge.
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Ethical Consumer has just heard the news that Traidcraft, the fair trade pioneers founded in the 1970's, could cease trading by the end of 2018 unless a solution can be found this month.
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Online giant paying less tax despite bumper profits
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Costa’s ethical score to fall from 6.5 to 2 out of 20
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The summer has seen a plethora of new reports about supermarkets – one looking at ready meals, another on how they are dealing with food waste and a third looking at the human suffering in supermarket supply chains.
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Bikes might be the healthiest and greenest vehicle going. But in the UK, it is still an activity dominated by men, writes Rachel White from Sustrans, the UK’s walking and cycling charity
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Are they leaving a lasting mark on the environment? Guest blog from Fidra
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With the World Cup underway in Moscow, football has become the latest target for the global marketing of junk food, says Simon Birch.
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Federer’s new sponsor UNIQLO pays him millions, but refuses wages to workers