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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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Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat?
Scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina have been working towards meat that can be grown in the labor...
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Marriott is Largest Hotel Chain With Sustainable Seafood Policy
The Marriott International hotel chain is taking their commitment to environmentalism into the kitchen with a new progr...
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Towards Sustainability, Amidst Political Unrest in Egypt
CASTRO'S COMMENTS ON EGYPT Yesterday Fidel Castro wrote an opinion piece in Escambray, Cuba's digital newspaper...
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Sustainable Foods Summit Discusses Eco-Labels
The annual Sustainable Foods Summit was held in San Francisco last month. It was organised by UK market research fir...
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New iPhone App Helps Consumers Find Ethically Sourced Seafood
Seafood Watch is taking the guesswork out of finding sustainable seafood. Now anyone with an iPhone can download a fre...
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Trader Joe's Seafood to be Sustainable by End of 2012
Trader Joe's has a lot of lovable qualities, and now it has one more. According to the Trader Joe's website, this Cali...
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Reading Material With an Environmental Focus
When my generation was growing up, reading material barely had a pre-designed focus on environmental awareness. We were...
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Manitoba Receives Government Boost for Bio-product Development
Ottawa-based research firm Abacus Data says businesses should put more emphasis on finding and promoting green products...
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Study Finds 'Meat Tax' Will Reduce Global Warming
Raising meat for human consumption is one of the biggest anthropological reasons for global warming. The Worldwatch Ins...
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Green Living: Eco-Fashion on the Red Carpet
As Colin Firth took away the Golden Globe for his performance in The King's Speech, his wife Livia Firth shimmered i...
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Green Products: The Growth Potential for Halal Cosmetics
The latest in green cosmetics comes from the ancient Islamic tradition of halal. The word halal, is Arabic for permissi...
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Green Living: Another Vote for Organic Food
A new EU-funded report adds another reason to go organic with at least some products. Newcastle University looked at...
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Demand for Ethical Products Continues to Rise
I read several news articles today that state that the demand for ethical products has continued to rise despite the re...
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The Meanest, Greenest Wheels at the Detroit Auto Show
I haven't really written about cars before, green or otherwise. So this is my first post because two things have happen...
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Green Living: Why Does Organic Cotton Matter?
You don't really eat it. It is usually grown for clothes and cotton seed oil - so why does it matter if you buy organic...
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Green Living: The End of 'Trashion'?
The market for cheap clothes wis worth millions of pounds in the UK. Stores like Primark, Asda, Tesco were the pioneers...
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Green Living: 'Normalizing' Organic Food
New research in Denmark by Dr. Hjelmar from the Institute of Governmental Research, identified two main 'concepts' to e...
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Sustainability: The flip side of ethical consumption
The jargoniest jargon of 2010 was voted to be 'sustainability' by Advertising Age. They say that their decision is b...
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Does ethical consumption extend to environmentalism?
This year I start my ethical consumption column with questions but before the musings, let me narrate an incident. A...
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Ethical Living: 10 things to do this year
I'm going to jump right into this post - these are not New Year resolutions, they are lifestyle changes that can even h...
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