Prophetic Shopping
Prophetic shopping
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General info |
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Ethical consumer |
www.ethicalconsumer.org - magazine www.ethiscore.org – need to sign up www.corporatecritic.org –need to sign up |
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British Association of Fair Trade Shops– nearest fair trade shop |
www.bafts.org.uk |
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Green and ethical guide |
www.guidemegreen.com |
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Fairtrade foundation |
www.fairtrade.org.uk |
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Speak’s big dress campaign |
www.speak.org.uk/thebigdress |
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Christian Aid’s Trade Justice campaign and life style stuff |
www.pressureworks.org – check out Trade Justice and Life/Style, particularly the quiz |
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Make Trade Fair campaign |
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Clothes and Jewellery |
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Traidcraft |
www.traidcraft.co.uk |
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People Tree |
www.ptree.co.uk |
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IPSUIS |
www.ipsuis.com |
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Bishopstontrading |
www.bishopstontrading.co.uk |
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Epona |
www.eponasport.com |
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One World Is Enough |
www.one-world-is-enough.net |
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Ethical Threads |
www.ethicalthreads.com |
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Tearcraft |
www.tearcraft.org |
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Get Ethical |
www.getethical.com |
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Greenfibres |
www.greenfibres.com |
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Just trade |
www.justtrade.co.uk |
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Fair grounds |
www.fair-grounds.org.uk |
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Howies |
www.howies.co.uk |
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Simple shoes |
www.simpleshoes.com |
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Equop |
www.equop.com |
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Gossypium |
www.gossypium.co.uk |
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Green Knickers |
www.greenknickers.org |
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One Village |
www.onevillage.co.uk – although more furnishings |
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Health, beauty and cleaning products |
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Naturesense organic skin care |
www.naturesense.co.uk/naturesense/ |
| Natural Collection | www.naturalcollection.com – lots of cleaning, health and beauty products |
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The Mooncup |
www.mooncup.co.uk – one for the ladies, a reusable sanitary item, really not as scary or horrible as it sounds and great for the environment and your finances… |
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Ethical Superstore |
www.ethicalsuperstore.com – again, a whole host of ethical and green items including, well, most things really. |
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Ecover |
Available at www.naturalcollection.com, www.ethicalsuperstore.com and other websites. Also sold in lots of health food shop type places and some supermarkets. |
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Love The Planet |
http://www.lovetheplanet.co.uk/ |
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In fact, health food shops are probably a good place to look generally for friendly health, beauty and cleaning products. Especially nice independent ones. |
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Food and Drink
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Divine |
www.divinechocolate.com |
| Cafedirect | www.cafedirect.co.uk |
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Clipper Teas |
www.clipper-teas.com |
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Equal Exchange |
www.equalexchange.co.uk |
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Co-op |
Generally have v good fairtrade selection, incl. fairtrade wine |
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Oxfam shops |
Often a have quite a good range of fairtrade goods |
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Traidcraft |
www.traidcraft.co.uk |
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Boycotts that you might want to look into a little bit… |
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Protest against Starbucks |
www.organicconsumers.org/starbucks/index.cfm |
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Boycott Nestlé |
www.babymilkaction.org/pages/boycott.html |
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Boycott Coke |
www.killercoke.org |
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Banking and Utilities
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The Co-op bank |
www.co-operativebank.co.uk – has a strict ethical investment policy. |
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Smile online banking |
www.smile.co.uk – ethical investments and sources 98% of its electricity from renewables. |
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Tridos |
www.tridos.co.uk – ethical European bank, now in UK. |
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Ecotricity |
www.ecotricity.co.uk – make your electricity green! |
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You can also look into changing your internet server so that some of the money goes to charity. Christian Aid is supported through surefish (www.surefish.co.uk) |
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Political, international and other stuff which you might like to have a look at and see what you think…
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Boycott of companies funding Bush and the Republican party |
www.boycottbush.net |
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Boycott of goods from China due to activities in Tibet |
www.boycottmadeinchina.org |
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Boycott of Israeli goods and culture |
www.bigcampaign.org and www.palestinecampaign.org – calling for boycott of Israeli goods and www.pacbi.org – website of the Palestinian campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. |
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Boycott of Esso |
www.stopesso.com – both for funding the Republicans and for inactivity on climate change front |
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Boycott of flying… |
Bit extreme for some people but www.flightpledge.org.uk allows you to sign a pledge promising to cut down or stop flying because of climate change. |
