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...
With just over seven weeks until this year’s National Ethical Investment Week (October 13-19), we’ll be catching up with a different financial adviser that specialises in ethical investment in...
It’s that time again. We’ve rounded up our favourite new crowdfunding projects of the month that focus on sustainability issues. Crowdfunding allows ambitious individuals to promote...
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’...
He was Jamie Oliver’s right-hand man at Fifteen Restaurant, his team have cooked for the Prince of Wales and he helped set up the UK’s first...
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...
Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Fair Trade 2013. Dutch free speech organisation Loesje once questioned whether it would “not be more logical to label unfair products”. But for...
Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Fair Trade 2013. Dutch free speech organisation Loesje once questioned whether it would “not be more logical to label unfair products”. But for...
The Co-operative Group has launched its ethical plan for 2013-2015, in which it sets itself new sustainability targets on its way to being “the most socially...
Green and ethical investment specialists Stewart Investment Planning picked up a bronze award for the best Fairtrade office at the South West Fairtrade Business Awards last...
Asda’s decision to sell European bananas instead of American ones raises questions about the source of a product and the working conditions of suppliers. So is...
Supermarket chain Asda has announced it will start selling bananas from the Canary Islands instead of from the Caribbean and Central America, in an effort to...
This Monday marked the start of Fairtrade Fortnight 2013 – the 17th in a series of annual celebrations of Fairtrade. Richard Anstead of the Fairtrade Foundation...
Sally Reith is an ethical investor. She moved her money so that it chimed well with her values when she took a job as engagement officer...