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How ethical is Triodos Bank? Triodos Bank UK is one of the few ethical banks available to customers.  Find out what makes it different by reading the profile of its parent company Triodos Bank NV.

Nabila Ahmed looks at the discussions bubbling up around an online sales tax.

Urska Trunk from the Changing Markets Foundation describes how Fast Fashion has revolutionised how we produce and buy clothes. Their recent report ‘Fossil fashion: the hidden reliance of fast fashion on fossil fuels’, revealed that the industry has become dangerously dependent on synthetic fibres, such as polyester, which have become the backbone…

A union leader has been threatened with court action alongside the company that installed solar panels bought using Ethical Consumer crowdfunder money.

After decades of being ignored by Shell, communities in Nigeria have recently won an important legal first step. Anna Clayton outlines the human and environmental importance of this new ruling.

A new report on financing fossil fuels finds that the UK’s ‘big five’ banks have actually increased investments in dirty energy since the Paris Agreement.

The human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese state are numerous, and many are linked to global corporations and products sold around the world. Increasingly people are asking should we boycott ‘made in China’? In this article, Clare Carlile explores the question through the cases of China’s abuses in Tibet, Hong Kong and the Xinjiang Uyghur…

Over the last 30 years we’ve rated and ranked thousands of companies. Over this period we’ve developed a sophisticated ranking system to help us find those that really are ethical.  Below we outline some of the things we look out for when investigating which companies are ethical.

For more than a year now, Manchester United has been partnered with a direct funder of the 2017 Rohingya genocide. Laurence Crumbie and Christian Gilberti delve into this controversial partnership.

New research has found that home rental company Airbnb is pouring money into ‘grassroots lobbying’ organisations which are subverting local democracy. We shine a light on Airbnb’s lobbying practices and outline some of the issues and negative impacts associated with their ‘Home Sharing’ or ‘Host’ Clubs. Also see our ethical guide to Travel…

On Tuesday, the Police, crime, sentencing and courts bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons, with a majority of 359 to 263. It has sparked widespread outrage and ongoing protests across the country. But Netpol says that police powers are already being quietly expanded, undermining our right to organise. We spoke to Kevin Blowe from…

Ahead of the ISA deadline at the end of the financial year on April 5th 2021, Jill Jackson, CEO of The Big Exchange talks to Simon Birch about how your ISA can help save the planet.

Libraries of Things are popping up all over the UK. This page gives a brief outline of what a library of things is and how they work. Plus look for a library of things near you, using our directory and map of all the (known) Libraries of Things around the UK - now over 100!  We've also included a section on Repair Cafe directories too.

Francesca Willow, or Ethical Unicorn as she is known on her social media platforms, is an artist and writer/blogger who aims to bring a factual and informative approach to sustainable living and social justice. We caught up with her to talk about activism, social justice, the pandemic and regenerative agriculture.

Tech giants have profited from the global pandemic, particularly from online shopping but many of them are still not paying a fair amount of tax. We outline some recent figures and what you can do to help our tax campaigns.

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.

Are we simply swapping plastic for PFAS? Dr Kerry Dinsmore of environmental charity Fidra explains how chemicals of concern, PFAS, risk undermining the environmental benefits of many so called ‘sustainable’ packaging alternatives, and why almost 12,000 people have joined together to ask UK supermarkets to take action to remove harmful forever…