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Prophetic Shopping

Prophetic shopping

General info

Ethical consumer

www.ethicalconsumer.org - magazine

www.ethiscore.org – need to sign up

www.corporatecritic.org –need to sign up

British Association of Fair Trade Shops– nearest fair trade shop

www.bafts.org.uk

Green and ethical guide

www.guidemegreen.com

Fairtrade foundation

www.fairtrade.org.uk

Speak’s big dress campaign

www.speak.org.uk/thebigdress

Christian Aid’s Trade Justice campaign and life style stuff

www.pressureworks.org – check out Trade Justice and Life/Style, particularly the quiz

Make Trade Fair campaign

Clothes and Jewellery

Traidcraft

www.traidcraft.co.uk

People Tree

www.ptree.co.uk

IPSUIS

www.ipsuis.com

Bishopstontrading

www.bishopstontrading.co.uk

Epona

www.eponasport.com

One World Is Enough

www.one-world-is-enough.net

Ethical Threads

www.ethicalthreads.com

Tearcraft

www.tearcraft.org

Get Ethical

www.getethical.com

Greenfibres

www.greenfibres.com

Just trade

www.justtrade.co.uk

Fair grounds

www.fair-grounds.org.uk

Howies

www.howies.co.uk

Simple shoes

www.simpleshoes.com

Equop

www.equop.com

Gossypium

www.gossypium.co.uk

Green Knickers

www.greenknickers.org

One Village

www.onevillage.co.uk – although more furnishings

Health, beauty and cleaning products

Naturesense organic skin care

www.naturesense.co.uk/naturesense/
Natural Collection www.naturalcollection.com – lots of cleaning, health and beauty products

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…

Ethical Superstore

www.ethicalsuperstore.com – again, a whole host of ethical and green items including, well, most things really.

Ecover

www.ecover.com

Available at www.naturalcollection.com, www.ethicalsuperstore.com and other websites. Also sold in lots of health food shop type places and some supermarkets.

Love The Planet

http://www.lovetheplanet.co.uk/

In fact, health food shops are probably a good place to look generally for friendly health, beauty and cleaning products. Especially nice independent ones.

Food and Drink

Divine

www.divinechocolate.com
Cafedirect www.cafedirect.co.uk

Clipper Teas

www.clipper-teas.com

Equal Exchange

www.equalexchange.co.uk

Co-op

Generally have v good fairtrade selection, incl. fairtrade wine

Oxfam shops

Often a have quite a good range of fairtrade goods

Traidcraft

www.traidcraft.co.uk

Boycotts that you might want to look into a little bit…

Protest against Starbucks

www.organicconsumers.org/starbucks/index.cfm

Boycott Nestlé

www.babymilkaction.org/pages/boycott.html

Boycott Coke

www.killercoke.org

Banking and Utilities

The Co-op bank

www.co-operativebank.co.uk – has a strict ethical investment policy.

Smile online banking

www.smile.co.uk – ethical investments and sources 98% of its electricity from renewables.

Tridos

www.tridos.co.uk – ethical European bank, now in UK.

Ecotricity

www.ecotricity.co.uk – make your electricity green!

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)

Political, international and other stuff which you might like to have a look at and see what you think…

Boycott of companies funding Bush and the Republican party

www.boycottbush.net

Boycott of goods from China due to activities in Tibet

www.boycottmadeinchina.org

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.

Boycott of Esso

www.stopesso.com – both for funding the Republicans and for inactivity on climate change front

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.