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Tim Hunt speaks to Dave Haslam founder of Church Action for Tax Justice.
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Anna Hughes, the leader of the Flight Free 2020 campaign asks if you could pledge not to fly alongside 100,000 others in 2020.
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Simon Birch laments the passing of a pioneering organisation.
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Rainforest Alliance and UTZ are asked to bolster their standards when they merge.
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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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What is a green tariff? How does it work, and how sustainable is it?
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The Managing Director of Weleda UK, Jayn Sterland tells us more about this natural beauty and health brand
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In this article we explore what makes a business ethical. We look at steps to tackle climate change and ensure workers’ rights, fair payment of taxes, and other indicators of an ethical company.
We also look at how ethical businesses perform financially.
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Emissions from the consumer goods we buy are rising.
In this article, we look at one key action for tackling this trend: choosing sustainable brands.
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A huge amount of e-waste is produced globally every year, yet only around a quarter of it is collected and recycled properly.
Where does the rest of this e-waste waste go, what harm does it do to people and the environment and what toxic chemicals are involved?
In this article we explore the issues of e-waste and what consumers can do about…
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Are there any ethical or eco-friendly laptops? Ethical and environmental ratings for 15 laptop brands, with recommended buys.
In this guide to laptops we look at a number of ethical and environmental issues to compare laptop brands like Apple, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Lenovo and Samsung.
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In this photo journal article we highlight some of the conditions facing workers in Spain who produce fruit and vegetables sold in UK supermarkets.
Amidst punishing physical conditions, racism, and exploitation, there is abundant defiance in Europe's market garden.
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Yalda Keshavarzi explores how the world’s biggest retailer appears to be helping Israel manage its assault on Palestine.
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As the UK starts to crack down on misleading green claims, is eco-friendly shopping about to get easier?
Sian Conway-Wood from #EthicalHour and author of Buy Better Consume Less explores what the new Green Claims Code means for consumers.
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Richard Wilson, Director of Stop Funding Hate, looks at the impact that GB News could have on the UK, and explains why companies should not support it.
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Human rights groups and political leaders are calling for a boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing over the Chinese Government’s atrocities against Uyghur citizens in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
The Chinese government is estimated to have held between 1 to 1.8 million people in detention and forced labour camps in the region – the…
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Once again, the Westminster government has authorised the owner of Silver Spoon to use bee-killing pesticide in England.
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All the latest news and events in the field of food and drink with regard to ethical consumption.
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More and more products are branded with claims like ‘sustainably sourced’ and ‘fairly traded’.
Julie Hunter, Chair of the Consumer and Public Interest Network at BSI, talks about the role of voluntary standards in navigating these claims, as more and more of us buy online, and about the importance of Consumers in shaping these standards.
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We speak to Aja Barber, a writer and fashion consultant with expertise in race, intersectional feminism and sustainable fashion, and a strong believer in holding corporations and organisations to account. We talk to her about fast fashion, the impact of Covid and more….