I’ve just been shopping. I went to London, walked into shops and bought things. New things. Not many – in fact my little pile of shopping bags is tragically small. I rapidly got bored and tired, and came back home.
… | 14th February 2008 Comment Shopping Consumerism Urban Living Consumerism Green Lifestyle Protest Green …
Britain has a serious and unnecessary drug habit, but the implications of our pill-forevery-ill culture go far beyond the adverse effects on human health. The complex chemicals in modern pharmaceuticals, as well as the manufacturing processes involved, leave a massive industrial footprint on the natural world that is largely ignored by both science and government.
… tap John Naish | 30th April 2009 News Drugs Consumerism Pills Prescription Drugs Drugs Urban Living Consumerism Drugs Health Pollution Science And …
Now here is an ecological pub quiz question: who wrote the following phrase and when?
… 2008 Comment Supermarkets Tom Hodgkinson Consumerism Politics Supermarkets Supermarkets … People hurl themselves at the temples of consumerism; they undergo absurd discomforts …
What do you get if you cross a shoe with a coconut? A bounty for the feet. Laura Sevier meets Sven Segal, eco shoe designer and founder of the Po-Zu range, who has found a novel use for waste coconut husks. . .
… Clothing Risk Human Rights Industrial Fashion Consumerism Lessons From Nature Fair Trade …
We were being given 20 to 21 pence a kilo, they were selling them in the stores at twice that, and we needed 32 pence to break even. The prices would change by the day, and then they’d take 60 to 90 days to pay you.
… Labour Food Packaging Food Miles Pesticides Consumerism Food Miles Packaging Fair Trade …
Katharine Hamnett is one of the UK’s leading fashion designers. In 1984 she famously wore a T-shirt opposing the purchase of US Pershing missiles at a reception attended by Margaret Thatcher. Since then she has campaigned on nuclear power, Third World debt, human rights, HIV and environmental issues.
… Katharine Hamnett Design Green Lifestyle Consumerism Fair Trade Green Living …
No European country is as reliant on supermarkets for its food shopping as Britain. It is no coincidence that the UK also has the worst eating habits in Europe.
… Label Sandwich Marks And Spencer Supermarkets Consumerism Packaging Processed Foods Fair …
Shopping is about to reach frenzy levels as the to-do list gets ever longer. And then there is that wonderful person in your life whose present cannot be fur, meat, plastic - or boring. BRENDAN MONTAGUE asked ethical companies for their best gift ideas this Christmas.
… Spring, and nature's renewal. The carnival of consumerism today is a travesty of such an …
The sustainability of cities is inextricably linked to the sustainability of distant places. We need a new, integrated approach to planetary stewardship to address this challenge.
… to the farmland feeding us. Our collective consumerism has become the main interface …
Too fat, too thin, too sad, too happy... Whatever the problem Biotech is developing a vaccine or a pill to cure us. Mark White examines the consequences of a world where all our worries can be medicated away.
… that is, and the Western one, the pinnacle of consumerism and materialism, that of having …
Churches turned into pubs. Brooding Victorian warehouses replaced with sparkly identikit apartments. Family shops and independent cafes bankrupted by Starbucks, Tesco’s et al. When will we wake up to this grim, placeless reality?
… give up and go shopping. In an age of global consumerism, corporate power and the dominance …