Ethical Consumer
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social
We're an indie, NPO, CO-OP & world leading ethical consumption magazine, est. 1989.
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Issue 217 is out now!
This magazine features our brand new guide to Music Streaming and the first trial of our Israel-Palestine rating.
We also updated our Amazon alternatives guides to Bookshops and Ethical Online Retailers and our guide to Ethical Chocolate too:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
This magazine features our brand new guide to Music Streaming and the first trial of our Israel-Palestine rating.
We also updated our Amazon alternatives guides to Bookshops and Ethical Online Retailers and our guide to Ethical Chocolate too:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
A few months ago we launched a crowdfunder in order to expand our work into challenging corporate power beyond consumer markets.
We've hit our first two targets now, but we want to do more!
Find out more about the campaign and donate here: bit.ly/47Mfbop
We've hit our first two targets now, but we want to do more!
Find out more about the campaign and donate here: bit.ly/47Mfbop
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A few months ago we launched a crowdfunder in order to expand our work into challenging corporate power beyond consumer markets.
We've hit our first two targets now, but we want to do more!
Find out more about the campaign and donate here: bit.ly/47Mfbop
We've hit our first two targets now, but we want to do more!
Find out more about the campaign and donate here: bit.ly/47Mfbop
It's only a few days away from our annual conference in London.
We've got some great speakers joining us to explore "How can we move beyond corporate power? Why re-inventing corporations can help us build a fairer and more sustainable future"
Find out more and buy tickets here:
bit.ly/4nFvWr8
We've got some great speakers joining us to explore "How can we move beyond corporate power? Why re-inventing corporations can help us build a fairer and more sustainable future"
Find out more and buy tickets here:
bit.ly/4nFvWr8
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It's only a few days away from our annual conference in London.
We've got some great speakers joining us to explore "How can we move beyond corporate power? Why re-inventing corporations can help us build a fairer and more sustainable future"
Find out more and buy tickets here:
bit.ly/4nFvWr8
We've got some great speakers joining us to explore "How can we move beyond corporate power? Why re-inventing corporations can help us build a fairer and more sustainable future"
Find out more and buy tickets here:
bit.ly/4nFvWr8
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We already know Amazon is awful, but is eBay a viable alternative? The redoubtable @ethical-consumer.bsky.social investigates. Subscribe at EthicalConsumer.org to find out more!
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We already know Amazon is awful, but is eBay a viable alternative? The redoubtable @ethical-consumer.bsky.social investigates. Subscribe at EthicalConsumer.org to find out more!
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HELP!
Can you share approaches to decolonising the web - eg how did you ditch #Google?
I use #DuckDuckGo as a browser but am still locked in to G because of email and the calendar.
Is #Proton an ethical alternative for email/calendar? What else?
Desperate to ditch!
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social
Can you share approaches to decolonising the web - eg how did you ditch #Google?
I use #DuckDuckGo as a browser but am still locked in to G because of email and the calendar.
Is #Proton an ethical alternative for email/calendar? What else?
Desperate to ditch!
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
HELP!
Can you share approaches to decolonising the web - eg how did you ditch #Google?
I use #DuckDuckGo as a browser but am still locked in to G because of email and the calendar.
Is #Proton an ethical alternative for email/calendar? What else?
Desperate to ditch!
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social
Can you share approaches to decolonising the web - eg how did you ditch #Google?
I use #DuckDuckGo as a browser but am still locked in to G because of email and the calendar.
Is #Proton an ethical alternative for email/calendar? What else?
Desperate to ditch!
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social
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UK government plan to double #coops and #mutuals sector falls short of what is needed to transform economy in face of looming global crises, warns Ethical Consumer
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social
#climatecrisis #inequality #costoflivingcrisis #sustainability
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social
#climatecrisis #inequality #costoflivingcrisis #sustainability
Ethical Consumer challenges the co-op movement to ‘think bigger’
Ethical Consumer's Rob Harrison argues the UK government's target of doubling the size of the co-op economy is not ambitious enough
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October 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
UK government plan to double #coops and #mutuals sector falls short of what is needed to transform economy in face of looming global crises, warns Ethical Consumer
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social
#climatecrisis #inequality #costoflivingcrisis #sustainability
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social
#climatecrisis #inequality #costoflivingcrisis #sustainability
Issue 217 is out now!
This magazine features our brand new guide to Music Streaming and the first trial of our Israel-Palestine rating.
We also updated our Amazon alternatives guides to Bookshops and Ethical Online Retailers and our guide to Ethical Chocolate too:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
This magazine features our brand new guide to Music Streaming and the first trial of our Israel-Palestine rating.
We also updated our Amazon alternatives guides to Bookshops and Ethical Online Retailers and our guide to Ethical Chocolate too:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
October 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Issue 217 is out now!
This magazine features our brand new guide to Music Streaming and the first trial of our Israel-Palestine rating.
We also updated our Amazon alternatives guides to Bookshops and Ethical Online Retailers and our guide to Ethical Chocolate too:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
This magazine features our brand new guide to Music Streaming and the first trial of our Israel-Palestine rating.
We also updated our Amazon alternatives guides to Bookshops and Ethical Online Retailers and our guide to Ethical Chocolate too:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
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If you're not subscribed to (or following) @ethical-consumer.bsky.social ➕️ care about evidence-based consumer rights-news, take a look at the #EthicalConsumer magazine.
Issue #217, especially, explains need to #BDS re #Israel & how to sack complicit #Spotify
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Issue #217, especially, explains need to #BDS re #Israel & how to sack complicit #Spotify
www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-cons...
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An indispensable read for any independent thinker. Each issue features detailed shopping guides, news of ethical products and campaigns, in-depth features, opinion, comment, boycott updates, readers' ...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you're not subscribed to (or following) @ethical-consumer.bsky.social ➕️ care about evidence-based consumer rights-news, take a look at the #EthicalConsumer magazine.
Issue #217, especially, explains need to #BDS re #Israel & how to sack complicit #Spotify
www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-cons...
Issue #217, especially, explains need to #BDS re #Israel & how to sack complicit #Spotify
www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-cons...
Amazon benefits from Trump’s tax cuts and attacks on labour; while the US government benefits from Amazon’s funding, political support, and provision of surveillance technologies.
Here we explain why our #BoycottAmazon campaign can go beyond disapproval of its UK tax avoidance:
bit.ly/4lQQXP0
Here we explain why our #BoycottAmazon campaign can go beyond disapproval of its UK tax avoidance:
bit.ly/4lQQXP0
October 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Amazon benefits from Trump’s tax cuts and attacks on labour; while the US government benefits from Amazon’s funding, political support, and provision of surveillance technologies.
Here we explain why our #BoycottAmazon campaign can go beyond disapproval of its UK tax avoidance:
bit.ly/4lQQXP0
Here we explain why our #BoycottAmazon campaign can go beyond disapproval of its UK tax avoidance:
bit.ly/4lQQXP0
Amazon benefits from Trump’s tax cuts and attacks on labour; while the US government benefits from Amazon’s funding, political support, and provision of surveillance technologies.
Here we explain why our #BoycottAmazon campaign can go beyond disapproval of its UK tax avoidance:
bit.ly/4lQQXP0
Here we explain why our #BoycottAmazon campaign can go beyond disapproval of its UK tax avoidance:
bit.ly/4lQQXP0
September 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Amazon benefits from Trump’s tax cuts and attacks on labour; while the US government benefits from Amazon’s funding, political support, and provision of surveillance technologies.
Here we explain why our #BoycottAmazon campaign can go beyond disapproval of its UK tax avoidance:
bit.ly/4lQQXP0
Here we explain why our #BoycottAmazon campaign can go beyond disapproval of its UK tax avoidance:
bit.ly/4lQQXP0
In our latest Magazine, we updated our guide to ethical Energy Providers.
An ethical energy supplier is one that helps the national grid become less reliant on fossil fuels, such as Best Buy recommendations @ecotricity.bsky.social or 100Green
Find out more in the full guide here: bit.ly/4mvv8Wi
An ethical energy supplier is one that helps the national grid become less reliant on fossil fuels, such as Best Buy recommendations @ecotricity.bsky.social or 100Green
Find out more in the full guide here: bit.ly/4mvv8Wi
September 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
In our latest Magazine, we updated our guide to ethical Energy Providers.
An ethical energy supplier is one that helps the national grid become less reliant on fossil fuels, such as Best Buy recommendations @ecotricity.bsky.social or 100Green
Find out more in the full guide here: bit.ly/4mvv8Wi
An ethical energy supplier is one that helps the national grid become less reliant on fossil fuels, such as Best Buy recommendations @ecotricity.bsky.social or 100Green
Find out more in the full guide here: bit.ly/4mvv8Wi
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An excellent campaign from @ethical-consumer.bsky.social discussing:
- ditching for-profit companies
- imagining a world without corporate power
- the fight against the far-right
- converting businesses to co-ops and social enterprises
- challenging tech monopolies
+ loads more!
- ditching for-profit companies
- imagining a world without corporate power
- the fight against the far-right
- converting businesses to co-ops and social enterprises
- challenging tech monopolies
+ loads more!
Challenging corporate power | Ethical Consumer
Discussing the ethics of companies and brands is now pretty mainstream. But with the state of the world as it is, it is time to think outside the box and imagine a different economy. One not based on ...
www.ethicalconsumer.org
August 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
An excellent campaign from @ethical-consumer.bsky.social discussing:
- ditching for-profit companies
- imagining a world without corporate power
- the fight against the far-right
- converting businesses to co-ops and social enterprises
- challenging tech monopolies
+ loads more!
- ditching for-profit companies
- imagining a world without corporate power
- the fight against the far-right
- converting businesses to co-ops and social enterprises
- challenging tech monopolies
+ loads more!
Issue 216 is out now!
In this guide we take a look at ethical energy suppliers, heat pumps, solar panels and boilers.
We also have a featured article on Amazon's links to Trump.
Find out more here:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
In this guide we take a look at ethical energy suppliers, heat pumps, solar panels and boilers.
We also have a featured article on Amazon's links to Trump.
Find out more here:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
August 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Issue 216 is out now!
In this guide we take a look at ethical energy suppliers, heat pumps, solar panels and boilers.
We also have a featured article on Amazon's links to Trump.
Find out more here:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
In this guide we take a look at ethical energy suppliers, heat pumps, solar panels and boilers.
We also have a featured article on Amazon's links to Trump.
Find out more here:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
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Great to see the wonderful @ethical-consumer.bsky.social covering some of our recent Fair Tax Mark certifications - Lawsons Group, WR Ethical, Earth Mind CIC & Mitie!
We highly recommend subscribing to Ethical Consumer Magazine if you aren't already!
#responsiblebusiness
We highly recommend subscribing to Ethical Consumer Magazine if you aren't already!
#responsiblebusiness
August 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Great to see the wonderful @ethical-consumer.bsky.social covering some of our recent Fair Tax Mark certifications - Lawsons Group, WR Ethical, Earth Mind CIC & Mitie!
We highly recommend subscribing to Ethical Consumer Magazine if you aren't already!
#responsiblebusiness
We highly recommend subscribing to Ethical Consumer Magazine if you aren't already!
#responsiblebusiness
Are Boycotts effective?
We explored what boycotts can achieve and their impact.
Whether that’s denting the finances of a company, showing solidarity with workers, or ensuring media reports on an issue.
Read the full piece here:
bit.ly/4obmT2V
We explored what boycotts can achieve and their impact.
Whether that’s denting the finances of a company, showing solidarity with workers, or ensuring media reports on an issue.
Read the full piece here:
bit.ly/4obmT2V
Are boycotts effective? | Ethical Consumer
In this article, we explore what boycotts can achieve and their impact – whether that’s denting the finances of a company, showing solidarity with workers, or ensuring media reports on an issue.
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July 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Are Boycotts effective?
We explored what boycotts can achieve and their impact.
Whether that’s denting the finances of a company, showing solidarity with workers, or ensuring media reports on an issue.
Read the full piece here:
bit.ly/4obmT2V
We explored what boycotts can achieve and their impact.
Whether that’s denting the finances of a company, showing solidarity with workers, or ensuring media reports on an issue.
Read the full piece here:
bit.ly/4obmT2V
Tickets for our annual conference in London are now available!
For this year's theme, we will be exploring "How we can move beyond corporate power?"
You can find out more about the day here: conference.ethicalconsumer.org
Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethical-co...
For this year's theme, we will be exploring "How we can move beyond corporate power?"
You can find out more about the day here: conference.ethicalconsumer.org
Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethical-co...
July 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Tickets for our annual conference in London are now available!
For this year's theme, we will be exploring "How we can move beyond corporate power?"
You can find out more about the day here: conference.ethicalconsumer.org
Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethical-co...
For this year's theme, we will be exploring "How we can move beyond corporate power?"
You can find out more about the day here: conference.ethicalconsumer.org
Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethical-co...
To celebrate Yoyo Grocery joining the Best Buy community, we will be running a giveaway with our newsletter subscribers this week.
Join our newsletter before Friday here to find out how to take part: bit.ly/4kCioLC
Find out more about Yoyo here: bit.ly/44GHcO5
Join our newsletter before Friday here to find out how to take part: bit.ly/4kCioLC
Find out more about Yoyo here: bit.ly/44GHcO5
July 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
To celebrate Yoyo Grocery joining the Best Buy community, we will be running a giveaway with our newsletter subscribers this week.
Join our newsletter before Friday here to find out how to take part: bit.ly/4kCioLC
Find out more about Yoyo here: bit.ly/44GHcO5
Join our newsletter before Friday here to find out how to take part: bit.ly/4kCioLC
Find out more about Yoyo here: bit.ly/44GHcO5
Issue 215 of Ethical Consumer is out now.
In this magazine, we examine ethical investment funds, stocks and shares ISAs, and publish our research on universities and local authorities spending millions with Amazon:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
In this magazine, we examine ethical investment funds, stocks and shares ISAs, and publish our research on universities and local authorities spending millions with Amazon:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
June 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Issue 215 of Ethical Consumer is out now.
In this magazine, we examine ethical investment funds, stocks and shares ISAs, and publish our research on universities and local authorities spending millions with Amazon:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
In this magazine, we examine ethical investment funds, stocks and shares ISAs, and publish our research on universities and local authorities spending millions with Amazon:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
It takes a lot of companies to keep an apartheid regime afloat.
Several banks finance Israeli settlements, weapons, and military, which contributes to human rights abuses in Palestine.
In this article we look at which UK current account providers are most and least complicit: bit.ly/4kJGl46
Several banks finance Israeli settlements, weapons, and military, which contributes to human rights abuses in Palestine.
In this article we look at which UK current account providers are most and least complicit: bit.ly/4kJGl46
Which banks support Israel? | Ethical Consumer
Several banks finance Israeli settlements, weapons, and military, which contributes to human rights abuses in Palestine. In this article Marlous Veldt and Jasmine Owens assess which UK current account...
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June 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It takes a lot of companies to keep an apartheid regime afloat.
Several banks finance Israeli settlements, weapons, and military, which contributes to human rights abuses in Palestine.
In this article we look at which UK current account providers are most and least complicit: bit.ly/4kJGl46
Several banks finance Israeli settlements, weapons, and military, which contributes to human rights abuses in Palestine.
In this article we look at which UK current account providers are most and least complicit: bit.ly/4kJGl46
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Local authorities are spending millions with tax-dodging Amazon
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social obtained this information by submitting 131 FOI requests - & the results were shocking, with one council spending over £1m with Amazon.
We ask again: where's the boycott?
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social obtained this information by submitting 131 FOI requests - & the results were shocking, with one council spending over £1m with Amazon.
We ask again: where's the boycott?
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Local authorities are spending millions with tax-dodging Amazon
Ethical Consumer obtained this Amazon information by submitting 131 freedom of information requests - and the result were shocking
www.thecanary.co
May 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Local authorities are spending millions with tax-dodging Amazon
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social obtained this information by submitting 131 FOI requests - & the results were shocking, with one council spending over £1m with Amazon.
We ask again: where's the boycott?
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social obtained this information by submitting 131 FOI requests - & the results were shocking, with one council spending over £1m with Amazon.
We ask again: where's the boycott?
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
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🔈The Forest 500 webinar panel - Emma Thomson, @greentechlady.bsky.social & Dr Katalin Csatadi - will showcase how researchers and journalists can use data to scrutinise corporate deforestation⬇️
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@tbij.bsky.social @trellisgroup.bsky.social @ethical-consumer.bsky.social
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May 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🔈The Forest 500 webinar panel - Emma Thomson, @greentechlady.bsky.social & Dr Katalin Csatadi - will showcase how researchers and journalists can use data to scrutinise corporate deforestation⬇️
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@tbij.bsky.social @trellisgroup.bsky.social @ethical-consumer.bsky.social
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@tbij.bsky.social @trellisgroup.bsky.social @ethical-consumer.bsky.social
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We have switched banks. We are no longer with Barclays Bank, but now with The Co-operative Bank. ✅ We DO want our money used in environmentally sustainable investments such as renewable energy ✅We DO want our money used for the good of society. #switch #ethicalbanking @ethical-consumer.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We have switched banks. We are no longer with Barclays Bank, but now with The Co-operative Bank. ✅ We DO want our money used in environmentally sustainable investments such as renewable energy ✅We DO want our money used for the good of society. #switch #ethicalbanking @ethical-consumer.bsky.social
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People in the UK and around the world are boycotting Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and companies associated with them.
Here we take a look at the reasons for the boycotts and how to get involved:
bit.ly/4dK8TbH
@everyonehateselon.bsky.social
Here we take a look at the reasons for the boycotts and how to get involved:
bit.ly/4dK8TbH
@everyonehateselon.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
People in the UK and around the world are boycotting Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and companies associated with them.
Here we take a look at the reasons for the boycotts and how to get involved:
bit.ly/4dK8TbH
@everyonehateselon.bsky.social
Here we take a look at the reasons for the boycotts and how to get involved:
bit.ly/4dK8TbH
@everyonehateselon.bsky.social
People in the UK and around the world are boycotting Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and companies associated with them.
Here we take a look at the reasons for the boycotts and how to get involved:
bit.ly/4dK8TbH
@everyonehateselon.bsky.social
Here we take a look at the reasons for the boycotts and how to get involved:
bit.ly/4dK8TbH
@everyonehateselon.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
People in the UK and around the world are boycotting Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and companies associated with them.
Here we take a look at the reasons for the boycotts and how to get involved:
bit.ly/4dK8TbH
@everyonehateselon.bsky.social
Here we take a look at the reasons for the boycotts and how to get involved:
bit.ly/4dK8TbH
@everyonehateselon.bsky.social
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UK universities are giving Amazon £21m a year, despite boycott calls
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social submitted 133 freedom of information requests, asking for details of universities' spending with Amazon.
Where's the boycott???
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social submitted 133 freedom of information requests, asking for details of universities' spending with Amazon.
Where's the boycott???
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
UK universities are giving Amazon £21m a year, despite boycott calls
Ethical Consumer submitted 133 freedom of information requests, asking for details of universities' spending with Amazon
www.thecanary.co
April 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
UK universities are giving Amazon £21m a year, despite boycott calls
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social submitted 133 freedom of information requests, asking for details of universities' spending with Amazon.
Where's the boycott???
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
@ethical-consumer.bsky.social submitted 133 freedom of information requests, asking for details of universities' spending with Amazon.
Where's the boycott???
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
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Bristol-headquartered ethical bank @Triodos has maintained its position as one @ethical-consumer.bsky.social magazine's best banks.
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Triodos maintains top spot in ethical banking rankings
Bristol-headquartered ethical bank Triodos has maintained its position as one Ethical Consumer magazine's best banks.
businessbiscuit.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Bristol-headquartered ethical bank @Triodos has maintained its position as one @ethical-consumer.bsky.social magazine's best banks.
businessbiscuit.com/business-peo...
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