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What is the Fair Tax Foundation and why is it important?  Ethical Consumer helped to establish the ground-breaking fair tax accreditation scheme, rewarding businesses that pay a fair amount of tax. We explain what fair tax is and why it's important.

A new guide from Stop Funding Hate and Ethical Consumer explains how you can help make hate unprofitable.

Finding an ethical and eco-friendly herb and fruit tea. This shopping guide ranks the environmental and ethical record of 30 brands of herbal and fruit teas and rooibos tea. Many eco-conscious people may enjoy a fruit or herb tea, and put the bag in the compost. But, it's a surprising fact that many tea bags still contain plastic. A fact you may…

A list of some UK products that are palm oil free or only use sustainable palm oil, from Ethical Consumer.

Your guide to personal carbon divestment. Become a pioneer in the fast developing post-carbon economy by moving your money into banks which aren't funding the fossil fuel industries.

Ethical Consumer has been campaigning for a boycott of Amazon since 2012, particularly because of Amazon's tax avoidance. But the list of reasons to avoid Amazon extends beyond tax, and includes its services to fossil fuel giants, workers' rights abuses, greenwashing and harmful environmental practices.

Turn Your Back on Grouse is the campaign to save the Hen Harrier in England. We introduce our campaign to stop corporate grouse shooting days. 

Ethical Consumer's campaign to stop the badger cull.

The Lush Prize is a £250,000 biennial prize fund which awards those working towards a world free from animal testing. It particularly seeks to reward those looking to replace, rather than reduce or refine, animal testing. The Lush Prize is a joint project run by Ethical Consumer and LUSH Cosmetics. 

The Lush Spring Prize comprises of a biennial £200,000+ prize fund and other support activities, to build capacity for those repairing the earth’s damaged systems. It is for groups, organisations, enterprises or networks that are working to revive damaged social and natural environments, and who want to share what they are doing to inspire and…

In February 2016, ShareAction published an ethical ranking of the biggest providers of ‘auto enrolment’ pensions in the UK. This is an extract from that report.

Direct ethical investments allow individuals to create change by playing a part in supporting, often smaller, environmental or social projects.

Where complex decisions around pensions or involving large sums of money need to be made, seeking professional advice is almost universally recommended.

What are the benefits of using a credit union?

How to find an ethical and environmental travel insurance underwriter. This guide rates 6 companies on their ethical policies. There's a lot of small print to look through when choosing a travel insurance provider, and transparency of their investment policies may be hard to find, so we've done the work for you.

Chemical producer Monsanto was bought by German company Bayer in 2018. What were the criticisms of Monsanto when it existed, and is Bayer any better?

When Ecover – the world’s largest eco cleaning product company – announced last year its decision to trial a new biotech ingredient in its detergents, the company triggered a new and challenging debate for ethical consumers. Molly Bond explains more.

Mackenzie Denyer investigates the environmental cost of the climbing industry.

The new share economy is creating a massive global buzz, but how ethical really is it, asks Ethical Consumer. 

Arthur Potts Dawson of the People’s Supermarket and Ed Mayo of Co-operatives UK explain today’s resurgence of interest in co-operatives.