Over the past few years, many consumers have begun to feel a sense of urgency in the need to change their behaviour. This comes from their...
Let us start by saying a simple thank you. Thank you to everyone and anyone who has read Blue & Green Tomorrow in 2013. In November...
Let us start by saying a simple thank you. Thank you to everyone and anyone who has read Blue & Green Tomorrow in 2013. In November alone, that...
Following two of the year’s busiest shopping days – the consumerism-driven Black Friday and Cyber Monday – is Fair Tuesday, an initiative to promote responsible and...
As 2013 begins to wither in to the distance, Ben Goulder looks to 2014 and the recent announcement that next year’s Fairtrade Fortnight will take place...
It is six months since one of the world’s worst factory disasters occurred in Bangladesh, killing nearly 1,200 people and affecting thousands more. But what can...
Investments in small-scale social, environmental and community-based businesses are worth £1.6 billion to the UK economy, according to new figures by investment platform Ethex. Known as...
It has been the vogue in the financial press to focus on the concept that investing can be neatly divided between the ethical and the unethical....
Community-owned, Fairtrade chocolate company Divine Chocolate launched its products on the UK market in the 90s, with an aim of improving the lives of Ghana’s cocoa...
The minimum price is, quite simply, the minimum price that a buyer of a Fairtrade-certified product has to pay to a Fairtrade certified producer. Minimum prices...
Britons are more likely now to buy Fairtrade goods, organic food and environmentally-friendly products than they were in 2011, according to a new study. A survey...
Deciding what to eat has never been so complicated. Equally, the potential effect of those decisions has never been so profound. Everyone wants to eat ‘well’...
Fair trade is a social movement that aims to pay producers, workers and farmers in the developing world fair prices for their goods and services, in...
A research team from the University of Gloucestershire has explored the possibility of social media influencing ethical shopping. The article, which will be published later this...
Almost 70% of people buying clothes would agree to pay a bit more to have a product made by workers with decent wages and working conditions,...