'Ethical Consumerism'-[MERGED] With - Green Board for environmentally friendly stuff.

silvertoes

Testee wrote:

How about a Green Board to post suggestions on how to be "green" (no Incredible Hulk jokes please) and places to buy stuff that's environmentally friendly / ecologically sound. Be great to get all this stuff together - like the thread about free longlife bulbs, cheapest place to buy Savaplugs. Where to recycle stuff? etc......

Thats a great idea, as I try and be "green" as much as I can, and anything to reduce the cost would be great

Pat__3

Hi Testee, There is already a thread suggesting this [url="http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=25372]HERE[/url]"]HERE[/url]


So I am going to merge them.:)

Bordera

Love the idea of a green board.
I find this site useful as a reference tool

http://www.surefish.co.uk/ethical_living/index.htm

and there is a fantastic organic food delivery organisation for Londoners - I switched for health reasons but find I am eating better and cheaper since using them.

http://www.organicdelivery.co.uk

ermm - Live long & prosper

bargain_bex_2

Excuse the link to my own site, but been interested in Fair Trade for ages, and found quite a lot of links... happy to be sent more:
http://www.bex.ww2poster.co.uk/charities/fairtrade.htm

stu_c_2

I recently bought a copy of 'the Good Shopping Guide', which had an advert for their own comparison website: https://www.gooshing.co.uk

It works a little bit like kelkoo and the like but has an 'ethical' rating listed with the products search results. Not certain the price comparison bit works as well as it could but the ethical ratings can be useful if you already know what you want. I'm sure this will improve with time though.

The book is quite an interesting read as well, and gives a breakdown of what to avoid (which chemicals / ingredients / companies) and why. With products grouped into categories and listed against a set of 12 criteria. So it marks it easy to draw comparisons against different brands / companies.

Hope this is of some use.

jo_b_2

stu_c wrote:

I recently bought a copy of 'the Good Shopping Guide', which had an advert for their own comparison website: www.gooshing.co.uk
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Thanks. Will definitely go back and have a proper look at that site.

competitionscafe

MSE_Martin wrote:

At this point however I'm not going to start a new board - simply as we've had sooooooooooooo many so far. Can you remind me in a few weeks.

Reminding.

By the way - interesting article in the local paper this week:

Save the planet (and £80,000 of your cash)

"RESEARCH by an Edinburgh University professor is the basis for a new book claiming green living could save people £80,000 each"..........

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business.cfm?id=250102005

bylromarha

competitionscafe wrote:

Reminding.

By the way - interesting article in the local paper this week:

Save the planet (and £80,000 of your cash)

"RESEARCH by an Edinburgh University professor is the basis for a new book claiming green living could save people £80,000 each"..........

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business.cfm?id=250102005

Just want to second the reminder now that a few months have past rather than a few weeks

Have just come across this thread as I was searching for some ethical stuff...so there is definitely a market for it on the boards.

competitionscafe

Hi bylromarha, thanks for bumping the thread.

I have found the following all very useful:

websites:

Adventures in Ethical Consumerism:
http://www.ethicaladventures.org/

River Cottage:
http://forum.rivercottage.net/index.php

Books:

A Life Stripped Bare by Leo Hickman:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1903919606/

Do the Right Things! A Practical Guide to Ethical Living by Pushpinder Khaneka
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904456170/

The Good Shopping Guide:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0954252934/

The Rough Guide to Ethical Shopping:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1843532654/

hope that helps.

Mark.

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