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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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Shimla Apples and the Ethical Consumer
Apples are one of those fruits that everybody is familiar with. It travels well, it packs in a lot of nutrition and the...
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Green Living: Flying Greener
I have traveled a lot this year, both within India and abroad. My personal carbon footprint on a day-to-day basis is pr...
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Green Living: Have yourself a Merry Green Christmas!
I'm guessing Christmas shopping has already started for many and I know of some people who have put up trees already. C...
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Governments, Fairtrade and Ethical Consumption
Recently there was a survey released that said that consumers' understanding of sustainability is often very different...
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Environmental Impacts of a Large-scale Dairy Operation
Today I'm putting forward an ethical consumerism conundrum. What if you know that large-scale dairies are 'bad' for a n...
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Ethical products: Shared Talent India, an enterprise in eco-fashion
More than 40% of fashion in the UK comes from India. With this in mind, The Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) at Lon...
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Green living: Going green this Thanksgiving
The most obvious eco-solution this Thanksgiving, is to do away with the turkey and go all vegetarian. But what's Thanks...
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Green Products: Decoding ecolabels
Everybody knows what an ecolabel is and most people are inclined to trust them. As an ethical consumer you should know...
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The Obsession with Stuff
So today I have a bunch of things running through my head and one of them is our obsession with 'stuff'. It is true...
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Ethical consumption: Why you should care about palm oil
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) released a trademark that will enable consumers to easily distinguish pro...
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Tuna and the ethical consumer
The bluefin tuna has been part of controversy for years. I wrote my environmental law thesis late last year on methods...
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Rattan, sustainability and the ethical consumer
Rattan is used extensively all over large parts of Asia to make furniture, baskets etc. There are 600 rattan species...
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Imported Meat, Vietnam and the ethical consumer
One of the downsides about living in Asia is that the avenues for a more sustainable lifestyle in some aspects is pr...
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Ethical consumerism through the SPIRAL Foundation
I came across the SPIRAL foundation at Sozo in Vietnam where I spotted a collection of their jewellery for sale. Aft...
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Ethical consumption in Saigon: The story of Sozo
On my last day in Saigon, I had the chance to pop into Sozo, a popular cafe in the backpacker area of the city. It w...
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Silk, handlooms and the ethical consumer
Perusing all the lovely silk in Cambodia and previously in India has prompted me to do some research into this fabri...
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Ethical Consumption: Art & Craft in Cambodia
Artisan d'Angkor was originally an off-shoot of Chantiers-Ecoles de formation professionnelle, a professional traini...
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Ethical products in Cambodia
This week I'm in Cambodia and it is a total surprise. Like most Asian countries, Cambodians are intrinsically 'green' i...
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Ethical Consumption: Would you eat roadkill?
A friend of mine that goes to Bournemouth University brought my attention to an unusual diet of roadkill amongst studen...
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International Development: When the Flood Waters Retreat
This summer floods racked southern Pakistan - killing thousands, displacing millions, and destroying hectare after hect...
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