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Simon Birch talks to Tamsin Lejeune, one of the UK’s leading advocates for ethical fashion.
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A new report called ‘Green is (Relatively) Good for European Utilities’ has been released by Morningstar, the US global financial services firm which provides research and information on investment funds.
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As part of our anti-greenwash series, we caught up with Christina, the founder of the ethical cleaning product company Greenscents. They came top in our guides to Laundry Detergents, Toilet Cleaners, Washing-up Liquid and Household Cleaners.
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Six of the UK’s biggest supermarkets have made slow progress in the last year to remove human suffering from their global food supply chains, according to research published in July 2019 by Oxfam.
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As part of our anti-greenwash series, we caught up with Hanna Pumfrey, the founder of Acala, a zero-waste health and beauty retailer and Best Buy in our shopping guide to Ethical Online Retailers.
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Rob Harrison, one of Ethical Consumer's founders, looks back at what's been achieved and forward at what remains to be done.
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The Soil Association’s new ‘Out to Lunch’ league table has ranked children’s food at 28 popular chains and found many of them were serving children unhealthy and unsustainable meals.
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May Project Gardens is an award-winning community interest company in South London connecting urban communities to nature and to each other in an otherwise consumerist society.
Co-director Mona Bani talks about the need for human connections when aiming for social change.
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We caught up with George Latham, Managing Partner at WHEB Asset Management, which came top in our guides to Fossil Free Investment Funds and Ethical Investment Funds.
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Rob Harrison explains why we may need to look at our education systems before we can find a lasting solution to the problems of the clothing sector.
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Lynn Wilson, from the University of Glasgow, explores the best options to choose when a garment has reached the end of its useful life.
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Alex Crumbie explores the growing concern about the social and environmental impacts of the fast fashion clothing industry and sets out what's wrong with fast fashion.
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An estimated £7bn is lost to the UK public purse each year as a result of corporate profits being shifted to tax havens. Alex Crumbie asks what role clothing companies might play in this.
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Josie Wexler talks about the sack of coal you’re carrying on your back and asks can we reduce the climate emissions of clothing?
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Ruth Strange scans the horizon for the latest concerns for people working in clothing supply chains.
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Heather Webb explains how high street fashion's supply chains and workers' rights have progressed as well as what needs to happen next.
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The Singh Twins tell us about the artwork from their Slaves of Fashion series. The featured piece references the history of the colour indigo as well as jeans, an item of clothing that is commonly dyed that colour.
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As part of our anti-greenwash series, we spoke to Guy Wilmot from Bird and Wild, a coffee company with a difference. Bird and Wild have been awarded our Best Buy label for their bird-friendly products.
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It has been one year since Riverford became employee-owned, and we took a trip down to their farm near Totnes in Devon to discuss how employee ownership has impacted the business and why we need more businesses to adopt this model.
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Impact festival involves two days of cultural events created to inspire environmental and social change.