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Running away from Responsibility?- buyer's guide to trainers and sports shoes  new

Investigating the issues and rating a number of key brands this buyer's guide give you the low down on trainers and sports shoes (Ethical Consumer).

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/magazine/buyers/trainers.pdf

(Added: Tue May 06 2008   Hits: 3)

Are you looking for the perfect diamond?

Conflict diamonds are diamonds that fuel conflict, civil wars and human rights abuses. They have been responsible for funding recent conflicts in Africa, resulting in the death and displacement of millions of people. Global Witness and Amnesty International have produced a short guide on conflict diamonds for shoppers. The guide tells shoppers what they need to know about the trade in conflict diamonds and the questions they need to ask jewellery retailers to try and ensure the diamonds they buy are conflict-free. (Global Witness, Amnesty International, 2006)

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10315

(Added: Thu Jun 08 2006   Modified: Thu Feb 08 2007   Hits: 245)

Best Fish Guide

Forest and Bird is proud to provide New Zealand consumers with the Best Fish Guide, which ranks the ecological sustainability of seafood from our commercial fisheries. Making the right seafood choice is not always easy. All fishing has an impact. We urge you to use this guide to help you make more informed choices when buying seafood.

http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/bestfishguide/index.asp

(Added: Tue Nov 01 2005   Modified: Tue Jun 20 2006   Hits: 318)

Call for Boycott of PAFCO's products

Two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Fiji are joining calls for a consumer boycott of products made by the Fiji government-owned Pacific Fishing Company (PAFCO) and its American partner Bumble Bee International. They have made a list of all PAFCO and Bumble Bee labels and product brands which will be circulated nationally and internationally.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/6117pang.html

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Carbon Market

Carbon Market is an innovative online market place where you can find a wide range of low carbon emission products and services from a large number of suppliers and retailers.

http://www.carbonmarket.com.au/index.php

(Added: Thu Oct 25 2007   Hits: 110)

ChangingThePresent.org

ChangingThePresent.org is a new website for charitable giving which features gifts and donation opportunities from across a full spectrum of causes, all in one place. Established in the belief that there is a limit to how many scarves, ties, tools, figurines, bottles of cologne, electric gadgets or pen and pencil sets that any of us really needs; it offers the opportunity for individuals to give gifts that express and share their own values and interests. It is possible to search the site by cause or to look for a particular organisation. The site also encourages personal expression and engagement in giving through personal pages and wish lists. ChangingThePresent is a project of ImportantGifts, a nonprofit organisations registered in the USA.

http://www.changingthepresent.org/

(Added: Tue Jan 09 2007   Hits: 178)

Choose a winner in the Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy

The Coalition Against Biopiracy today calls for nominations for the Fifth Captain Hook Awards. What's the most scandalous case of biopiracy in your country? Who's ripping off indigenous knowledge or the environment? Nominate your least favorite pirate for a 2008 Captain Hook Award.

http://www.captainhookawards.org

(Added: Thu Mar 13 2008   Hits: 28)

Clean Energy Guide

Choose the cleanest energy supplier, and take action to encourage the use of renewable energy.

http://www.greenpeace.org.nz/ceg/

(Added: Thu Jun 08 2006   Modified: Tue Jun 20 2006   Hits: 460)

Eco-promising: communicating the environmental credentials of your products and services [pdf]

This report provides an invaluable how-to guide and examples for companies wanting to make environmental claims about their products and services. The report also reviews the history of eco-promising and highlights the challenges facing companies in communicating their efforts - including the rising possibility of a consumer backlash due to confusion (Forum for the Future, April 2008).

http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/files/Ecopromising_160408.pdf

(Added: Tue Apr 29 2008   Hits: 13)

Ethical investing: Funds that favor planet savers

The Christian Science Monitor argues that global warming gains as a theme for investors, but the strategy carries real risks.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0225/p13s02-wmgn.html

(Added: Tue Feb 26 2008   Modified: Wed Mar 26 2008   Hits: 31)

Fifty Ways to Help Save the Planet: What you can do

The sheer scale of the processes under way in the atmosphere and the oceans makes it hard not to view anything an individual does to reduce emissions as being too little too late. Not true. The astonishing fact is that each of us can have an immediate impact on the production of greenhouse gases, and if enough of us act together in these minor ways, the cumulative effect will be dramatic. That's because so much of the way we live our lives is wasteful and, to put it bluntly, thoughtless.The overwhelming and heartening point about the ideas here is that, if adopted by large numbers of people, they will have an immeasurable effect. When it comes down to it, the continued rise in carbon emissions is a matter of individual conscience: each of us can and should do something, however small. In 5 or 10 years' time that thought, together with everything written here, should be second nature to us. This little booklet is the future-a more ingenious, more satisfying, and less wasteful future. (Vanity Fair, August 2006)

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_read.asp?id=121544172006

(Added: Fri Sep 08 2006   Modified: Fri Jan 12 2007   Hits: 390)

Goodbooks, the online bookstore with a conscience

Every time you buy a book from Goodbooks - any book - all profits are contributed to Oxfam to help fight its global battle against poverty and social injustice. There is no extra cost to you. The books - fiction and nonfiction, of all genres - are not marked up to cover this contribution; prices remain among the lowest you will find, and delivery world wide is completely free. With over two million titles in stock our range is one of the largest and our international delivery times cannot be beaten.

https://www.goodbooksnz.co.nz/

(Added: Thu Sep 07 2006   Modified: Fri Dec 21 2007   Hits: 408)

Greenpeace's updated Clean Energy Guide

Greenpeace has released an updated version of it's Clean Energy Guide, which ranks New Zealand's electricity companies on their contribution to climate change, both now and in the future. The updated guide encourages New Zealand consumers to switch to a cleaner electricity supplier. Switching to a cleaner electricity supplier is easy. You can make the switch simply by ringing your current power company and telling them you want to change, or online at http://www.cleanenergyguide.org.nz. The guide ranks each company that feeds into the national grid according to its current supply and future commitment to clean, renewable energy. This edition also takes into account each company's energy efficiency programmes and whether they encourage households to generate their own renewable electricity. Our last guide helped many New Zealanders switch to cleaner electricity, and helped stop Mighty River Power's Marsden B coal-fired power station.

http://www.cleanenergyguide.org.nz

(Added: Fri Jul 20 2007   Modified: Thu Oct 18 2007   Hits: 114)

Guide to Greener Electronics

This Guide ranks leading mobile and PC manufacturers on their global policies and practice on eliminating harmful chemicals and on taking responsibility for their products once they are discarded by consumers. Companies are ranked solely on information that is publicly available. Use this guide to inform yourself before making purchases.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/greener-electronics-guide

(Added: Fri Sep 08 2006   Hits: 220)

If you go down to the woods today...

To stop further climate change, rather than stop the flow of oil, coal and gas, the offset industry tells us that we can continue as normal. We can drive as much as want, fly as much as we want, and eat our non-organic Coldplay mangoes in the Canadian winter. We need not reduce; in fact we can now consume our way out of the problem. Now we can buy trees and thus 'neutralize' our impacts. It is a seductive argument. But it is a falsehood - a con. (Adam Ma'ani, New Internationalist, July 2006)

http://www.newint.org/features/2006/07/01/keynote/

(Added: Tue Oct 03 2006   Hits: 244)

International Day of Action

This website is here to help you and your group to integrate activism against the practices of big box retailers and supermarkets into the advocacy work that you already do. We offer opportunities for groups to network, share information, develop strategies and conduct outreach.

http://intldayofaction.bbc.wikispaces.net/AboutInternationalDayofAction

(Added: Tue Nov 13 2007   Hits: 61)

No Sweat: 100% Union Made Apparel

Bienestar International manufactures union-made footwear & casual clothing under the brand name No Sweat. Their gear is produced by independent trade union members in the US, Canada, and the developing world, because they believe that the only viable response to globalization is a global labor movement. No Sweat defines the market for goods that support independent trade unions - the only historically proven solution to sweatshops. They market direct to consumers, relying primarily on internet sales for distribution.

http://www.nosweatapparel.com/index.html

(Added: Fri Sep 22 2006   Hits: 203)

Oxfam New Zealand Take Action on Fair Trade

There are a number of ways in which you can support fair trade, ranging from very easy to slightly more time consuming. Some, like making the switch to buying Fair Trade coffee or sending an action card to your local supermarket, require very little effort but still make a real difference These pages include a range of ideas for getting involved in the Fair Trade movement. The activities listed have already proved successful in other countries, but if you have other ideas for promoting Fair Trade in New Zealand, please let us know so we can share them with other supporters.

http://www.oxfam.org.nz/fairtrade/takeaction.htm

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Oxfam Unwrapped: Clever Gift Ideas

This Christmas, give five buckets, buy radio airtime, give a donkey, take away a gun, buy a box of condoms, buy fairtrade certification for a plantation, or many other things, to people Oxfam can assist with your money.

http://www.oxfamunwrapped.org.nz/shopping.asp

(Added: Wed Nov 08 2006   Hits: 312)

Say YES to sustainable seafood

Unsustainable fishing is decimating the world's fisheries, as well as destroying marine habitats and incidentally killing billions of fish and other marine animals each year. Pledge to take action to protect our marine environment and support sustainable fishing by only buying seafood products that carry the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) label.

http://passport.panda.org/campaigns/action_commitment.cfm?uCampaignId=1301&uActionId=2021

(Added: Wed Oct 04 2006   Hits: 198)

Shop with a Conscience & Support Workers' Rights!

The anti-sweatshop movement encourages consumers to shop with a conscience and buy goods made under fair labor conditions. The organizations listed below have compiled the following buying guide, representing a sampling of sweatshop-free apparel products currently available on the market.

http://swatch.igc.org/index.php?s=59

(Added: Tue Apr 26 2005   Modified: Tue Jun 20 2006   Hits: 484)

Tackle big business

Businesses aim to maximise returns to shareholders, sometimes at the expense of the environment and without concern for social impacts. Globalisation and the rush to be internationally competitive compound the problem. Greenpeace gives a list of ways in which you can make a difference-from purchasing power to direct lobbying.

http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/take-action/target-corporates

(Added: Tue Jun 05 2007   Hits: 104)

Take a stand against the loss of our precious forests and pledge to buy good wood!

Forests are amazing storehouses of biological diversity, housing over two-thirds of all known terrestrial species. Yet each year around 13 million hectares of natural forest are lost. That's 25 hectares every minute, the equivalent of 36 football fields.But you can help stop this. Businesses will ultimately listen to their customers. If you stop buying timber that comes from forests that are badly managed, or even perhaps that has been illegally produced, then the suppliers of this timber will have no choice but to change as well. Make sure that any timber products you buy carry the FSC label.

http://passport.panda.org/campaigns/campaign.cfm?uNC=93695574&uCampaignId=1241

(Added: Tue Aug 08 2006   Modified: Fri Aug 18 2006   Hits: 206)

Take action to stop blood diamonds!

Over 3.7 million people have died in diamond-related conflicts. Millions more have been displaced and, in Sierra Leone, an estimated 20,000 people's limbs were amputated. All for diamonds or in conflicts funded by diamonds. Send an email to the World Diamond Council. No blood for diamonds!

http://action.globalexchange.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6206&t=ActionCenter.dwt

(Added: Mon Dec 11 2006   Hits: 193)

Take Action: Will Pepsi Move the Mountain?

Do you know where bottled water comes from? Well, you're not alone. Bottled water giants like Pepsi, Coke, and Nestlé don't readily disclose the sites and sources of the water that's bottled. Ask Pepsi when it will Move the Mountain off its Aquafina label and when it will reveal the sites and sources of the water it bottles. Every year, tens of millions of dollars are spent to undermine the public's faith in their public water systems. Bottled water corporations are changing the way people think about water. Today, three of four people in the United States drink bottled water, and one in five drinks only bottled water. Think Outside the Bottle! Take action today! Join hundreds of people across the US in calling Pepsi today to stop corporate abuse in a National Day of Action. (Stop Corporate Abuse Now).

http://www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/campaign/pepsi_move_the_mountain/wsuie734fd7kw77

(Added: Fri Aug 03 2007   Hits: 155)

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