I’m happy to announce the latest winner of the Green Stars Project /Ethical Consumer contest – it’s your local friendly poet and blogger, Willow Croft! She wins a one-year subscription to Ethical Consumer, the highly-regarded guide to all your ethical dilemmas, as a consumer. The competition runs on a continual basis, so please join in anytime – here are some guidelines. Continue reading Ethical Consumer contest winner!
Apparently it became all the rage in mid-19th century Saratoga Springs, NY, to carry your potato chips around the spa town, munching along the way. (See part 1 for the dubious origin story.) As restaurants and vendors began selling potato chips around the world they often packaged them in waxed paper bags. Modern bags are made from multiple layers of plastic and foil and are … Continue reading Daily Footprint, #22 – Potato Chips, Part 2: Packaging
A reasonable place to start is to look at existing ethical consumerism guides and see how different phones rank. The figure below compares phone rankings Continue reading Daily Footprint, #9 – Cell Phone (ethical mobile phones)
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