Tag: Ethical - Page 8

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  Allan Chochinov's 10 Steps for Sustainable Design

  Allan Chochinov, editor-in-chief at Core 77, was a speaker at Compostmodern on Saturday, and presented some great steps for designers. He calls them "Denting an Impossible Design Problem in 10 Sustainable Steps."

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  Researchers Say Hippy Reasons for Living Sustainably Beat Out "Hope for Future"

  For many of us, we try to live in sustainable ways because we hope to avert a global climate disaster, because we hope to give our kids a future on a clean earth, and because we hope that what we do will make a positive impact

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  How to Go Green: Dating

  The world puts a lot of emphasis on dating: it's the point of reality TV shows, the plot of countless movies and sitcoms, and the subject of endless conversations among pretty much all single people (and their friends). The general

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  Last-Minute Green Shopping: Via Nativa Fair-Trade Store

  In our recent How to go Green Holidays, we've made the point: this time of the year is not about presents and errands, but about sharing with your beloved. Keeping that in mind, if you still need to get some presents and didn't

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  Ultralast Batteries: "Does This Packaging Make My Green Look Washed?"

  When something like this arrives, I find the only way to really vent my frustration is to cause public embarrassment. So, off to the stocks with this Ultralast media package and its flood of greenwash.

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  Knowmore Firefox Extension Helps You Browse for Ethics

  A while ago we presented Scryve to you, a company rating service that lets you know where a company falls on the ethics scale. Well, we’ve just learned about a Firefox add-on that is a great

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  Scryve Set to "Become the Zagat of the Environmental and Social World"

  Scryve is a green ranking for companies so that you can quickly and easily see how businesses rank in greenness, and compare companies to make more environmentally conscience purchasing decisions without having to spend hours looking up company info and

• Cocaine Blues: Coke-Heads Aiding Rainforest Destruction

  Image Credit: The Sun Anti-Drug Campaigners Target 'Ethical' Consumers Type "cocaine" into the search bar on TreeHugger and you won't come up with much. That's because cocaine use is not a very TreeHugger-like activity, right? (If you need

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  David Suzuki and Bruce Mau Behind New Eco-Boutique in Toronto

  Looking for beeswax crayons for the kids? Or perhaps you're in need of unique note cards printed on recycled paper with soy ink? If your dream store carries nothing

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  GoodGuide Proves Green is Priority with Top Prize at Web 2.0 Summit

  GoodGuide has already made its way onto our top lists for greening our shopping. But its newest prize proves that environmentally friendly shopping is a high enough priority to get some serious attention. Six companies were highlighted at this week’s

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  Greenpeace's "Forests for Climate" Tour reaches Indonesia

  The Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, arrived in Jakarta on Halloween calling for urgent action to protect forests in order to save the global climate and bearing new evidence of the mounting threat to Papua’s forests. Greenpeace is calling on the central

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  British Fashion Industry Icons Support Groundbreaking RE:Fashion Awards

  Next week on November 13th the great and good of the British fashion industry will demonstrate their commitment to ethical fashion by attending the groundbreaking RE:Fashion Awards. This event will be the world's first dedicated awards ceremony for

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  Ethical Eco-Gifts from Boutiko Will Jump Start the Holidays

  Are you dreading the consumer season, packed with plastic? Do you wish you could find the perfect sustainable, ethical stocking stuffer? This holiday season, get your kids, nieces, nephews and the other munchkins in your life a present that will

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  On Moving Toward Vegetarianism

  It wasn't so long ago many people in North America thought vegetarians were weird, lived in hippie communes and lived off of tofu and brown rice. Our cultural ideas have shifted enough in the last decade that this concept has mostly fallen away. We

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  Book Review: By Hand - The Fair Trade Fashion Agenda by Safia Minney of People Tree

  The journey of the UK ethical fashion label People Tree has been a remarkable one. As founder Safia Minney says in the introduction of her new book By Hand the story started in Japan in 1991 "and 14 years later I found myself sitting at the World

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  London Fashion Week: Ciel SS09 is Bold with Beautiful Prints

  Oh the cruelty of the fashion industry! Showing us all these beautiful Spring/Summer clothes when we are sliding inexorably into winter...brrrrr! Still, even just the sight of Ciel's SS09 collection at London

• Bono, Edun Live, and CBS Team Up To Make Organic "Survivor" T-Shirts in Africa

  Oh, Bono—is there anything you can't do? This time, the world famous rock star/hip philanthropist/sunglasses sporting all-around-do-gooder has entered into a deal between his company, Edun Live, and CBS Products to help

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  London Fashion Week: Fabulous Ethical Knits

  As we've heard from Bonnie Alter the Estethica section of London Fashion Week was great on Canadians and Accessories this season. It was also, surprisingly perhaps for a Spring/Summer collection, fabulous for knits. Beautiful loosely woven, but