ByJo Salter, Founder of Where Does It Come From?andKatie Carr, Founder of Tommy and Lottie Meghan Markle Shows Us Her Ethics! It was fabulous this week to see the Daily Mail featuring our princess-to-be Meghan Markle and focussing on her ethical clothing choices. Meghan’s conscious shopping choices included jeans from the Welsh ethical brand Huit Denim for jeans (very …
Traditionally the ‘Three Rs’ were about education. This is slightly strange given that two of them don’t even start with R – a Victorian attempt at irony I guess. In current thinking the three Rs are the mantra of sustainability and frugality – Reduce, Re-use, Recycle. Our children learn about them at school, our council …
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The Government will be launching their new 25 year environment strategy on Thursday. Snippets released this morning outline plans to extend the 5p charge on plastic bags in most shops and to eradicate all avoidable plastic by 2042. It is certainly positive to have the government clearly accepting that there is a plastic crisis, somewhat …
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Good News: UK consumers shopping more and more thically 2018 was a concerning year in many ways – Brexit, financial pressures due to the economic situation and a worrying tendency for people to embrace intolerance. However it was a positive year for ethical and sustainable consumerism in general and ethical fashion in particular – with …
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Here we are in December and I have finally started Christmas Shopping! I started last Saturday by heading into town and buying some gifts in small businesses as it was Small Business Saturday. My first and favourite port of call is our local Fairtrade Shop. If you have one I recommend you visit – there is a …
On 20th of October I headed off to the Ethical Consumer 2017 conference in London with my good friend and colleague Mark. It is the third year I’ve attended and this years theme – Challenging Corporate Power in a Changing Political Landscape – really hit the button. Where Does It Come From? has a key ethos of …
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London Fashion Week….. London Fashion Week 2017 has just finished – a frantic festival of catwalk shows and new designs. But it’s not just about style and glamour, fashion is big business – the UK fashion industry contributed £28billion to the economy last year and supported 880,000 UK jobs (Oxford Economics). It’s popular too – …
What is Zero Waste Week? This week is Zero Waste Week, a fantastic opportunity for all of us as individuals and businesses to look at how much we throw away and to ask the question ‘where is ‘away’?’ What happens to what we discard? Can we do our bit to lessen the growing expanse of rubbish that is being dumped …
We’re going for it – we really want to win an Observer Ethical Award! Now in their 11th year, the Observer Ethical Awards celebrate all the great work being done to make our world a better place. This year is a bit different as they are asking people to nominate their favourite ethical business, person or organisation that …
by Jo Salter and Rachel Forcella (Forcella Content Marketing) Who doesn’t own a pair of jeans? Invented in 1873 by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss (sound familiar?), jeans have gone from being the workwear of farm labourers and miners during the American gold rush to a staple of virtually everyone’s wardrobe. In the UK alone …