Tag: Ethical
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Green Holiday Gifts for for Your Favourite Girlfriend
From mod earings and necklaces to sweet cell phone and MP3 cases, these green girly gifts will please the ladies on your holiday list.
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Conscious Box: The Monthly Subscription Service Delivering Healthy Snacks and Skin Products to Your Door
Assorted goodies from ethical suppliers range from Glee Gum to Almond-Coconut Kind Bars, Honest Tea, and Pharmacopia body lotion.
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Corporations Want You to Live Greener. Will It Work?
It's not just hippies that want people to go green. Some of the UK's biggest corporations are now preaching about lifestyle change. But will people listen?
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Former Barista Tells Starbucks: Brew More Fair Trade Coffee
Sam Greenblatt liked working for Starbucks—he thought the company treated its employees well. But when he learned that Starbucks offers 100-percent fair trade-certified coffee and espresso at its stores in Europe, he
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Should The Law Put Mother Nature First?
From making ecocide a criminal offense to giving animals their own legal public defenders, TreeHugger has often explored the notion of how and how far the law should recognize the rights of our non-human neighbors. Over at Permaculture Magazine,
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Why My Swiffer is the Least of Our Worries: Prioritization Matters
The other day I was cleaning our floors with a Swiffer, musing on how it probably wasn't the greenest option out there, and beating myself up for choosing convenience over
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New Report Accuses Natural Foods Marketers of "Cereal Crimes"
Cornucopia just released a report, Cereal Crimes: How "Natural" Claims Deceive Consumers and Undermine the Organic Label--A Look Down the Cereal and
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Ethical Rugs by GAN Make Any Space Cosy (Photo)
Today FEED, the international blogger meeting at the Valencia Design Week, took us on a pleasant visit to GAN, Gandia Blascos' rug showroom. Laura Mora explained us how all their rugs are hand-made under fair-trade conditions in India with 100% natural
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Forget Abundance. Embrace Scarcity.
When I wrote about masturbation as an economic act (it really wasn't as smutty as it sounds!), I warned against a scarcity mentality—arguing instead that we must embrace abundance, and learn to think beyond money to see the real wealth that is
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Plenitude Economics: Work Less, Play More, and Stop Screwing the Planet (Video)
From local investing in "everybody eats" restaurants, through slow business and the best vacation response ever, to a revival of simple low-impact living and DIY culture, the signs are everywhere of a fascinating new (and old) economic model emerging
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PETA Confirms Porn Site Plans
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has confirmed, to HuffPo, that the animal advocacy organization will launch a porn site at peta.XXX. PETA historically has not hesitated to bare flesh
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How to Balance Doing Good & Making Money
The other day I responded to reader criticisms of a clean energy pioneer based on the money he had made, arguing that to ramp up renewables we need to demonstrate financial success. Yet there is no doubt that material wealth and economic prosperity
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Are London Riots Just Consumerism Gone Mad?
It's not just Britain's urbanists who are discussing the London riots. The events of the past week have kicked off debate between folks of all backgrounds and political persuasions about what
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More People Eating Alternative Fish as Fish Fight Gains Momentum in the UK
In January, national treasure, chef and writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall spearheaded a campaign called "Fish Fight" in response to the "insane waste" caused by North Sea fishermen throwing back almost a million dead and dying fish
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Demand for Low-Carbon Products Grows, Despite Recession
It's not just home wind turbines in the US that have seen strong sales, despite the recession. In the UK too we've seen the "ethical consumer" market grow 18%, bucking the economic downturn. And
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The Truth About McDonald's "Hot Coffee Lawsuit" & Why It Matters (Video)
Most of us have heard of it. And many of us, myself included, have used it anecdotally as the perfect example of litigation culture gone mad. Yet a new documentary tells a very different version of the story about Stella
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Those Hipsters at Holstee Launch A Colourful Upcycled Wallet for Summer
There's no doubt that an ethical brand with hipster flavour is still rare enough as to be an attention grabbing entity. Holstee is one such brand, being as brilliant with words and positive attitude as it is with eco-friendly products. Their stock in
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"Share or Die" Gives Voice to Youth in Recession
From tool libraries to car clubs, much has been written about the rise in collaborative consumption. But, for many people, particularly young people struggling with a major economic meltdown, this is about much more than a new way of consuming
