The Green Village News for the ‘Ethical shopping’ Category
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Animal welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming have organised the Bake With Compassion week to promote baking with free range eggs and help campaign against caged and battery production. The weeklong campaign will take place between 6th and 12th July and aims to raise money through fundraising events to help promote the chickens’ cause.
The fundraising campaign will coincide with CIWF’s Good Egg Awards, which celebrate companies and organisations that switch to using free range eggs in their businesses and products and calls on budding cooks and home bakers to put on their pinnies and make some homemade goodies to promote the importance of using free range eggs.
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Tags: bake with compassion, baking, battery hens, caged hens, ciwf, compassion in world farming, free range, free range eggs, good egg awards, homemade cakes
Posted in Companies and Organisations, Ethical shopping, Events and Courses, Food and Farming, Green Family, Green Living, Green Planet | 2 Comments
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
A new consultation announced today by Government agency, Defra, aims to canvass 213 companies including supermarkets such as Waitrose, Tesco and Asda, energy companies E-on, Npower and British Gas and a range of environmental charities and organisation such as Forum for the Future and WWF.
The consultation process is open until 4th September and invites companies to give their views on proposals for the introduction of a market surveillance body and how minimum energy standards and energy labelling of products available on the high street can be implemented, including the powers an enforcement body should have and the role that businesses would play in testing and enforcing these standards. Businesses are also being asked to provide feedback on draft proposals for 5 key areas responsible for energy use; standby functions on products, external power supplies for products, simpler set top boxes and two areas of lighting – tertiary and household.
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Tags: consultation, defra, eco design, economy, energy efficiency, energy efficient, energy laballing enforcement, energy saving
Posted in Companies and Organisations, Energy and Resources, Environmental Impact, Environmental Politics, Ethical shopping, Green Living, Green Planet, Science and Technology | No Comments
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
A new campaign launched by environmental campaign group Greenpeace is calling on consumers to take steps to help increase awareness about the detrimental effects that the footwear industry can have on the world’s rainforests.
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The ‘Every Step Counts’ campaign, which picks up on the issue of leather produced at the cost of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil highlighted in Greenpeace’s ‘Slaughtering the Amazon’ report published last week, calls on consumers to help put pressure on footwear manufacturers to end their contribution to the rainforest deforestation caused by the creation of ranches that supply leather to these companies. Greenpeace points the finger at companies known to source leather from suppliers such as those in Brazil that are destroying the most valuable carbon sink on the planet, such as high street shoe outlet Clarks, Timberland and sports shoe and trainer manufacturers Nike, Reebok and Adidas.
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Tags: campaign, climate change, deforestation, every step counts, footwear, greenpeace, rainforest, shoes, slaughtering the amazon, trainers
Posted in Companies and Organisations, Conservation and Wildlife, Energy and Resources, Environmental Impact, Ethical shopping, Green Living, Green Planet | No Comments
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
There have been many stories over the last couple of decades warning of fish stock depletion due to over fishing of the world’s oceans, especially with cod. But the reality is that if current practices continue to be used, and at the rate presently seen, one day there will be no fish left in the sea.
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Tags: charles clover, film, fish, movie, overfishing, the end of the line, unsustainable fishing, world oceans day
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
The Green Village recently attended a roundtable discussion about Sony Ericsson’s new GreenHeart mobile phones. The company wants to position themselves as the greenest electronics company in the world and to lead other companies to follow in their footsteps.
Accompanying Sony Ericsson at the meeting were, Forum for the Future and ChemSec, two NGO’s that the company has been working with over the years to develop an environmentally responsible business.
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Tags: corporate responsibility, greenheart, mobile phones, sony ericsson, telecoms
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Industrial designer Neil Barron has been announced the winner of the ‘London on Tap‘ competition to design a stylish sustainable carafe for London’s bars, restaurants and businesses. His design, which from above looks like the top of a tap, hence the name, will be available in clear and frosted versions, and later this year in blue and green.
The winning design for the ‘London On Tap’ carafe, which will be mass produced from recycled glass by London based company Nazeing Glass, was announced by London’s Mayor Boris Johnson and came top out of 115 submitted designs, of which 10 were shortlisted. Thames Water launched the competition in May 2008 in conjunction with the Crafts Council with three main aims. They wanted to promote tap water use in the capital as a sustainable, green alternative to bottled water, remove the perceived stigma attached to asking for tap water when eating out, and encourage bars and restaurants to serve tap water as standard.
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Tags: bottled water, carafe, london, london on tap, tap top, tap water, thames water, wateraid
Posted in Companies and Organisations, Ethical shopping, Green Leisure and Tourism, Green Living, Green Planet | 1 Comment
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Coca-Cola contribute significantly to the millions of plastic bottles being discarded every year, but new plans announced by the drinks firm could see them taking steps to reduce the environmental impact of their bottles.
Every year the equivalent oil to power 1 million cars is used in the production of plastic bottles for bottled water alone; never mind other soft drinks, with only 10% of this figure currently being recycled. The remainder is left to be shipped off to landfill, where, as plastic is not biodegradable, it takes thousands of years to break down. The move by Coca-Cola therefore is a welcome one that will be rolled out later this year across their Dasani bottled water in the US.
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Tags: bottled water, coca-cola, corporate responsibility, plastic bottles
Posted in Companies and Organisations, Ethical shopping, Green Living, Green Planet, Recycling and Waste | 3 Comments
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Reducing the amount of plastic bags given away each year has become a target for many companies and businesses of late, from supermarkets to high street retailers. Ayres Road in Old Trafford has become the latest addition to those doing their bit to combat carrier bag use.
Plastic bags are given away every day in their tens of thousands, and most of them get to our houses then get thrown away; at the cost of the environment and the pockets of the traders handing them out. The ‘Ayres Road Cares’ bag could go some way towards reducing the impact on both. The reusable bag, produced by community action group War on Waste in Old Trafford, (WOW-OT), will be available from June for £1.50 per bag at no cost to the retailer, and aims to both reduce plastic bag waste and promote local businesses.
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Tags: bag for life, carrier bags, plastic bags, recycling, WOW-OT
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
The popularity of free range eggs is on the increase, and likely thanks to the work of campaign groups and TV programmes promoting better welfare for, and increasing awareness of the conditions chickens live in used in producing both standard meat and caged eggs. Free range egg sales increased by 8.4% last year with sales set to hit £2bn this year, and with sales of eggs from caged hens falling by 3.3%, this can only be a step in the right direction for UK chickens and British egg production.
A London award ceremony held by Compassion in World Farming on Thursday evening (14th May) saw a number of UK companies presented with ‘Good Egg’ awards for their contribution to ending the use of eggs from caged birds. Over the past year, Fox’s biscuits, Little Chef, Walkers Shortbread and Virgin Trains. Penelope Keith, who presented some of the awards to the winners commented,
“I congratulate all the companies that are going cage-free on their eggs and hope consumers will, too. A cage-free egg costs just a couple of pennies more and it saves hens a life of misery.”
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Tags: caged eggs, compassion in world farming, eggs, free range, free range eggs, good egg awards
Posted in Ethical shopping, Food and Farming, Green Living, Green Planet | 1 Comment
Monday, April 27th, 2009
The company behind the innovative USBCELL battery have today launched a new campaign, Save Battery Waste. The campaign aims to increase public awareness of the importance of recycling batteries, and with over 15 billion of them being manufactured and thrown away each year, it’s not difficult to see why.
Moixa Energy Ltd began their campaign at the UK Aware conference held on 17th and 18th April at London Olympia by holding a collection at their hybrid solar PV and battery run stall. Their collection of spent batteries totalled 90kg by the end of the event, which shockingly is only about 1/100th of the amount of batteries currently disposed of in the UK every week.
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Tags: battery recycling, UK AWARE, USBCELL
Posted in Companies and Organisations, Ethical shopping, Green Living, Green Planet, Recycling and Waste, Science and Technology | 1 Comment
