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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...
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Green Living: 10 reasons to be hopeful
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Green Living: A wake-up call to go organic
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Sustainable Living: Having a Happy Green New Year!
Most of what was said for having a green Christmas holds true for New Year as well. The Times Square Ball went green...
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Green Living: Eye-watering onion prices in India
The whole of India is in a furore these days... over onions. Yes, you heard right. A month ago it was the price of cabb...
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Green Living: Chopstick Wars
Does anyone ever give thought to a pair of chopsticks? It sometimes is present at your table at a meal or comes along w...
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Sustainable Living: Unwrapping the Gift-Wrapping
Four days to Christmas and I usually find that this is when people go into a wrapping presents frenzy, at least the...
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Snow, Global Warming and the Ethical Consumer
So this is another post about how being an ethical consumer is linked to the bigger world outside personal comfort z...
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Ethical Products: Handy phone app to make the right choice
How handy would it be to have an app on your phone to let you know if a product is ethical or not? That's exactly wa...
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Sustainable Living: The lowdown on Toxics
We are living in an increasingly toxic world. People are being exposed to toxic substances like it is nobody's busin...
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Green Living: Eat not this
Earlier this week Smithfield's Foods, the world's largest producer of pork has been caught up in accusations of animal...
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Sustainable Living: Is Vertical Farming the new reality?
The concept of a vertical farm seems like something out the future and of course it is not something new. Talk of the n...
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Green living: Reducing wastes over the holidays
I was recently reading a few articles about wastes generated by holiday greeting cards and the numbers are rather ho...
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Green Products: Choosing eco-friendly alcohol
'Tis the season to be jolly indeed and some of us indulge a little too much to get the jolly going. No judgement, just...
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Green Living: What To Do With Empty Make-up Containers
One of the aspects of eco-beauty that is not talked about often has got nothing to do with what you buy but what to do...
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Green Living: Eco-homes
Research commissioned recently under a Boston Real Estate website said that 85% of respondents preferred living in a 'g...
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Green Living: Rising gas prices caused the recession
I recently finished reading _The Oil Factor_ by Stephen and Donna Leeb. In the book, they state that using the price of...
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Green Products: Disposable dinnerware
It is easier to use disposable dinnerware when you have many people coming over for dinner or for a picnic. It certa...
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Green Living: From Garbage to Garden
When I was growing up, I remember my grandmother using a pit dug out in the ground to compost her kitchen and garden...
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Green Living: The Groupon for Greenies
Ah, show of hands: who loves Groupon? Although I don't actually live in the States where Groupon caters to, everytime I...
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Green Products: Eco-friendly Toys for Christmas, perhaps?
This is another Christmas related post on ethical consumption. On a recent trip to Bangalore, I stumbled upon a bunch o...
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