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Anna Clayton met up with John Vendy and Sue Arnott, two beekeepers from Bentham, North Yorkshire, to learn more about their approach to natural beekeeping.

Sophie Billington talks to the ex-fashion editor of the Metro, Bel Jacobs about her plans to shake up the world as we know it with direct action and the power of the written word.

Athena, a new alliance of organisations based in the US, is campaigning against Amazon. The coalition brings together activists, advocates, policy experts and academics.

We caught up with Tracy Mitchell, Business Manager at our Best Buy company Just Trading Scotland. The company came top in our ethical shopping guide for rice with its True Origin (was Kilombero) brand.

From smallholder farmers to climate refugees, workers in our supply chains are amongst those already most affected by climate breakdown.

Our honey guide found that buying honey may not be the best thing for honey bees and pollinators. So here are some actions you can take to help.

Honey is not vegan, and even for non-vegans, there are many ethical issues associated with the honey industry that may lead us to want to cut down on our intake.  This article looks at plant alternatives to bee honey.

Simon Birch talks to Bryony Moore about her work with a pioneering project that’s challenging the fashion industry.

Extinction Rebellion UK members turned Siemens’ London office into a ‘crime scene’ on the 16 January, following its decision to continue providing railway signalling services to the Adani coal mine in Queensland, Australia.

Emma Kerrison updates us on diversity and fast fashion in the clothing industry.

Workers for a company supplying vegetables to the UK have been laid-off without warning and face eviction from their homes, after their employer decided to close some of its greenhouses in Almeria, Spain.

Those in the UK ‘discovered’ a taste for the banana – which had been grown for centuries in areas like West Africa, the Caribbean and South America – in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Greenwashing is when a company uses adverts and PR campaigns to make a product, brand or the company as a whole, appear greener than it really is.  In this article we examine the problems with greenwashing, name some of the companies involved, and explain how to spot it.

Certified bananas are commonplace, meaning that growers' and workers' rights should have improved. However, there are still issues within this field.

A number of assurance schemes have emerged over the years to try and address concerns over animal welfare issues in the dairy industry.  We look at how much these schemes provide better conditions for animals, or not. 

We compare the climate and environmental impacts of meat with vegetarian and vegan products and find that whichever way you look at it a veggie diet is better for the planet.

More and more people in the UK are switching to plant-based milks as an alternative to dairy. How much better are they for the climate, what about nutrition, and which is the best plant milk for the environment?  

Is vegan cheese better for the environment and more ethical? We rate and review 17 vegan cheese brands, with recommended brands and which brands to avoid. In this guide to ethical vegan cheese we take a look at the ethics of cheese companies from major international dairy brands, to small artisan independent producers.

Catch up on all the latest and most important ethical news in the financial sector.