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Climate control for sidewalks: making stores close the doornews
A loophole exists in our global warming awareness. As most of us are are investing in energy saving appliances and insulating our homes to cut the need for climate control, there's a large segment of our communities that still find it acceptable to run the air conditioning or heating ...
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8 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff / nicolas.boullosa staff 2 comments
Flying: who's prepared for greener skies?videos
Air travel is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions and this hasn't gone unnoticed: the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is urging the UK government to introduce cigarette-style health warnings on all advertising for air travel warning that "Flying Causes Climate Change." The UK's Tory ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Jetter l'énergie par les portesnews
encourager les magasins à fermer la porte.
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8 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 2 comments
Anglo-Saxon bigfoots and the Happy Planet Indexblogs
The other day my husband IMed me, only half-joking, "f**king Anglo-Saxons". It seems we English-speaking countries, for the most part, have the world's worst carbon footprints. What inspired my husband's comment wasn't one of our trips to the U.S., Canada or Australia where he is ...
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11 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Ethical consumers in the United Kingdom (statistics and retail industry interest)blogs
Statistics reflect that ethical consumer is an influential market in the UK. As the time passes the highly informed, pro-active and critic consumers start to make influence on broader markets reformulating the paradigms that globalization and capitalism have created.
The UK is a propitious ecosystem to spread this phenomenon, the ...
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1 year ago by: nananaina user 4 comments
A little background on the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)news
The Ethical Trading Initiative is an alliance of companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and trade organizations dedicated to promoting "good practice" for goods sold in the UK.The Ethical Trading Initiative works to create and apply a code of conduct to maintain labour standards- based on those of the International Labour ...
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2 years ago by: faircompanies faircompanies comments
The Body Shop: can a chain believe in social responsibility?news
Cosmetics chain that doesn't test products on animals and uses only organic ingredients.Until it was bought by the French multinational L'Oréal in March of 2006 for 652 million euro, the history of the British cosmetics chain The Body Shop International is tied to its founder, Anita Roddick ...
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2 years, 9 months ago by: faircompanies faircompanies 1 comments