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Sustainable Fabrics A-Z: Which Clothing Materials Are Ethical?
The fashion industry always seems to be proclaiming the next revolutionary sustainable fabrics: confusingly, some of these trending materials are organic, natural fibres; some are synthetic; and some are even made of the very materials we’ve been…
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Meaning Returns – The Business Conference Focused on Fixing the Problems of Our Time
Meaning – the annual gathering for progressive business – returns to Brighton’s Dome on 14 November. Now in its eighth year, the conference has a packed agenda that will bring inspiration and fellowship to the growing body…
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Microsoft Alternatives Guide: How (and Why) to Avoid Microsoft
Microsoft is one of the biggest tech companies in the world, recording $126bn in annual revenue for 2018. This 14% increase on the previous year helped it displace Apple as most valuable US company at the time.…
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Story of Change | Work Less, Gain More? The 4 Day Working Week
Responding to a recession in the early 1990s, the public sector in the Netherlands began offering a four-day week to staff to save money. Since then it has spread and become common employment practice, with the option…
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Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
The concept of planetary emergencies can make us, as individuals, feel small and powerless. Active Hope (How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy) (first published in 2012), and all the concepts behind its title,…
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How to Eat a Planet-Friendly Diet
If you live in a developed country, it can seem churlish to complain about the global food system of farmers, suppliers and retailers that makes sure our supermarket shelves are always fully stocked. But as grateful as…
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There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years by Mike Berners-Lee
The summer of 2019 has brought a blistering heatwave of record-breaking temperatures to Europe—and we should get used to it. By 2050, it’s been reported, London’s weather could be similar to that of Barcelona. Taking in these…
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Subscribe for fortnightly guides to ethical living and news on the most ethical brands. Sign Up Check out the archive: February 19 2020: befriending eco-anxiety and choosing mobile phones March 6 2020: international train travel, rethinking zero-waste,…
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Hope In the Anthropocene
There’s no such thing as the future. Instead, the roads before us stretch in a near-infinity of potential directions. We get to choose the route; in the words of famed cyberethicist Sarah Connor, there’s no fate but…
