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Patagonia and eBay to Promote Sustainable Consumption in the UK
Patagonia and eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) have come together to encourage UK buyers to buy clothes responsibly and help preserve the environment. The leading outdoor clothing giant Patagonia believes that buying clothes one does not really need in the first place compromises the principles of ethical consumption. Patagonia strives to live up to its commitment to meet the four Rs of waste management: reduce, repair, reuse and recycle. Vincent Stanley, Patagonia's acting head of marketing, says: "If [a company is] recycling something that really shouldn't have been made in the first place, you're not doing your job. If you're making something tha...
All STORIES in Ethical Consumption
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Eco Wedding: Say, 'I Do," to the Dissolvable Bridal Gown
Summer brides now have an ethical alternative when purchasing their wedding dress - a gown that actually dissolves in w...
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Green Product of the Week: Milk Paint
Old fashioned, safe, and money-saving milk paint is back in style! This week's green product is older than the hills, l...
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Compostable Packaging...a Bust? Ethical Consumption Investigates
Compostables have boomed over the last five years, but are they really sustainable? Ethical Consumption continues its l...
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Sustainable Living and the Car Component: Turns Out Those Tires Make a Mighty Difference
When one commonly thinks of sustainable living and looking to reduce their carbon footprint in terms of their car and t...
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Does Reduced Packaging mean Reduced Ethical Consumption?
Is there a bad side to reducing packaging? Ethical Consumption's look into what's what in the sustainable business worl...
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Could the Government be Weatherizing Your Home? Sustainable Living at Home Series
Knock knock! Who is it? The Department of Energy! The Sustainable Living at Home Series continues with a look at whose...
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MotherTongues - Shirts and Statements of Brotherhood With Ethical Consumption Values to Match
When Michelle Hamman decided to stray from her job as an electrical engineer she turned to her South African roots and...
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Sustainable Fashion with Edge: Warrior Princess Bahar Shahpar Creates Vegan Heels for Summer 2010
Eco fashion designer Bahar Shahpar has collaborated with vegan shoe maker Cri de Coeur, and the result is a blast of co...
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Green Product of the Week: Solio Solar Charger
What charges up to 3,200 devices and runs off of solar energy, your computer, or a wall plug-in? This week's green prod...
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Meal Planning made Easy: Sustainable Living at Home Series
The easiest meal-planning helper has arrived! The Sustainable Living at Home Series continues with some helpful hints a...
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Sustainable Living in the Kitchen: Meat Fee Meal Ideas
For all of those looking to be a bit more in line with sustainable living around the dinner table you may have been fol...
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Starbucks Disposable Cups Deemed "Unrecyclable" by Major Recycling Companies
Although Starbucks has been praised for their many green endeavors, there also has been criticism of the company, claim...
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Sustainable Living and the Quick Guide to Plastics
It's been established that for sustainable living we should as a group do our best to limit the amount of plastics we p...
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Gap Inc. unveils China expansion plans - what does this mean for its CSR policy?
Last week, Gap unveiled plans to enter China with four Gap brand stores in full swing by the end of the year. The San F...
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To Diet Constantly (and other proclamations in the world of fast ethical sourcing)
In Martin Smith's open letter to Sir Richard Branson (CEO, Virgin Atlantic), he summed up a feeling of a generation in...
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Eco Hipster of Sustainable Fashion, Samantha Pleet
Eco fashion has come a long way since its grassroots origins, and now designs by Samantha Pleet reinvent vintage mod as...
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IKEA a Non-Profit . . . Really?!
IKEA has been boycotted by thousands of Israelis due to "blood libel" in a Swedish tabloid, by Polish Catholics for fea...
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Ethical Consumption: Is Demand for Organic Cotton Contributing to Malaria in Africa?
In the US, we all believe that we are making the socially responsible choice by purchasing organic cotton. However, how...
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Do-Gooder's Design Project: Recycled Paper, Recycled Litter, Recycled Fashion
Yesterday's News®, a brand of environmentally conscious pet litter, has announced the Do-Gooder Design Challenge, wher...
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Starbucks Cups: Ethical Consumption for Coffeeholics
Starbucks sells between 15 and 30 million cups of coffee per day worldwide, translating into about 6 billion paper cups...
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