Supermarkets are driving destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms responsible for illegal deforestation, according to a three-year investigation of the global trade in Brazilian cattle products…
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Business
A new service called Shiply is helping to address the problem of empty lorries and vans travelling on our roads by matching consumers and businesses with couriers and logistics providers who have capacity to spare…
Today The Co-operative Bank unveiled a radical new Ethical Policy and restated its commitment to continue to lend responsibly, with more than a quarter of the bank’s corporate and business lending going to support social and environmental organisations…
The Story of Stuff is a fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. It exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world…
Today is Junk Mail Revenge Day! If you saved up all your junk mail for Junk Mail Revenge Day, today’s the day to send it all back with a polite note on the envelopes stating that the mail is ‘unwanted’ and instructing the postal service to return it to the sender…
What do you do with all that junk mail you get in the post? As well as returning junk mail to the sender there are a number of things you can do to stop the junk mail you receive, such as registering with the Mailing Preference Service (in the UK)…
We’ve all heard the expression “whitewash”, right? The OED defines it as ‘a deliberate concealment of… mistakes or faults’. Greenwash is the same, but in an environmental context. It’s whitewashing, but with a green brush!
