Easy Ways to Save the World

May 1st, 2008

Turning Up the Heat

The World Development Movement is running a series of debates about how big business can influence climates change. The series is called Turning Up the Heat. You can turn up in person to the events in London (8th May), Cardiff (10th May) and Manchester (13th May) or you can watch and participate online - ...

May 17th, 2007

The Nag

The folks at anti-apathy have a new campaign called 'The Nag'. You sign up and then it emails you every month with one thing you can do to make your life more sustainable. Seemed a bit London centric asking for 'borough' when you sign up apart from that it makes the subject quite entertaining. It's free and it's easy!

October 11th, 2005

No Sweat — Union-Made Sweatshop-Free Casual Apparel

No Sweat—Union-Made Sweatshop-Free Casual Apparel – I as this on hippyshopper. Apart from the obvious good things about the products being sold here – I love the banners!

September 26th, 2005

Equitrade

Equitrade – you’ve seen fairtrade now meet equitrade. This article in The Guardian explains the details. The general idea is to keep as much of the profit from the products in the country that makes them – which sounds fair enough to me. Obviously this make the chocolate a bit more expensive – but who said it would be cheap to save the world!

July 11th, 2005

www.maketradefair.com

www.maketradefair.com - It's amazing what you can find through google - this seems to be a site along the lines of makepovertyhistory.org. It has various thing you can do like emailing Tescos about squeezing their suppliers. Found this site here too: Traidcraft - it sell more than just chocolate!