Ethical consumerism news
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2025
The hidden plastic problem in your daily dental routine – and what’s being done about it, theconversation.com (Sep 09, 2025) - The hard truth about the circular economy – real change will take more than refillable bottles, theconversation.com (Sep 08, 2025)
- Redefining the race: the initiative tackling running’s carbon footprint, positive.news (Sep 04, 2025)
- How Sweden’s ‘secondhand only’ shopping mall is changing retail, theconversation.com (Aug 29, 2025)
- Tat’s enough: the No Crap Parties movement, positive.news (Aug 01, 2025)
- Climate anxiety meant I could no longer work as a pilot. But I love flying – and I know we can transform aviation, George Hibberd, theguardian.com (Jul 10, 2025)
- ‘Own less, have more’: French app rents out underused household items, theguardian.com (Jun 19, 2025)
- How the threat of extreme heat is starting to change our holiday plans, BBC News (Jun 18, 2025)
- E-bikes are becoming e-waste – here’s how to reduce the environmental cost, theconversation.com (Jun 11, 2025)
- First-of-its-kind Hawaii bill raises tourist taxes to fund climate relief, theguardian.com (May 05, 2025)
- Co-op solutions to the problems caused by short-term rentals, thenews.coop (Apr 07, 2025)
- Five ways cannabis can contribute to a green future, theconversation.com (Mar 24, 2025)
- Why I’m training Colombian Amazonians to become archaeology tourist guides, theconversation.com (Mar 18, 2025)
- Many cities are banning ads for airlines, SUVs and fossil fuels – and yours could be next, theconversation.com (Mar 10, 2025)
- Riding the rail revival: how holidays by train are drawing the discerning traveller, positive.news (Mar 07, 2025)
- Want a side of CO₂ with that? Better food labels help us choose more climate-friendly foods, theconversation.com (Feb 25, 2025)
- Citizens' ideas on sustainable consumption, buergerrat.de/en (Feb 16, 2025)
- Think your efforts to help the climate don’t matter? African philosophers disagree, theconversation.com (Jan 27, 2025)
- UK student brews design for a repairable kettle that anyone can fix, positive.news (Jan 13, 2025)
2024
- The road less travelled: the holiday company showing how tourism can support communities, positive.news (Dec 11, 2024)
- 'We are in danger' - Spanish anti-tourism spills into winter season, BBC News (Oct 26, 2024)
- ‘Because secondhand is feckin’ grand’: how clothes swapping became huge in Ireland, theguardian.com (Oct 03, 2024)
- The UPF giants: “staggering” global emissions of the top 10 food and drink manufacturers higher than UK’s total carbon footprint, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 01, 2024) — Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too
- The Hague becomes world’s first city to pass legislation making it illegal to advertise fossil fuel products and services with a high carbon footprint, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2024) — this includes petrol and diesel, aviation and cruise ships
- Environmental costs of cruise ships, theguardian.com (Aug 26, 2024) — and how to reduce their impact
- The good tourist: can we learn to travel without absolutely infuriating the locals?, theguardian.com (Aug 19, 2024)
- Bali gives a snapshot of what ‘overtourism’ looks like in the developing world, theconversation.com (Aug 19, 2024)
- ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians, theguardian.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- Barcelona protests: holiday hotspots need fairer tourism for local communities, theconversation.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- ‘My escape is going north’: heatwaves begin to drive tourists in Europe to cool climes, theguardian.com (Jul 02, 2024)
- How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution, theguardian.com (Jun 20, 2024)
- A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modelling shows, theconversation.com (May 03, 2024)
- Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts, BBC Future (Apr 22, 2024)
- Thousands rally in Spain's Canary Islands against mass tourism, BBC News (Apr 20, 2024)
- Swapping red meat for herring, sardines and anchovies could save 750,000 lives, study suggests, theguardian.com (Apr 09, 2024)
- The Towns Outsmarting Airbnb, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 02, 2024)
- How Greenland’s tourism industry lobbied for a green tax, and won, positive.news (Feb 20, 2024)
- Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists, theguardian.com (Jan 13, 2024)
2023
- Never fly again? Go vegan? It was too hard. But I still cut my emissions by 61% and it made life simpler and better, Jo Clay, theguardian.com (Nov 03, 2023)
- It’s time to limit how often we can travel abroad – ‘carbon passports’ may be the answer, theconversation.com (Nov 03, 2023)
- 'This could be the holy grail to replace palm oil' - research team, BBC News (Sep 18, 2023)
- We'll have to reimagine our holiday season, as climate crisis compels us to change our means of travel and destinations, Daily Alternative (Sep 17, 2023)
- A solution to overtourism? Introducing the ethical alternative to Airbnb, positive.news (Aug 29, 2023)
- Plastic recycling is failing – here’s how the world must respond, The Conversation (May 30, 2023)
- What can I do about climate change? 14 ways to take positive action, positive.news (May 30, 2023)
- Vacationers Generate 8 Times More Carbon on a Cruise Ship than on Land, foe.org (Apr 18, 2023)
2022
- Ban on single-use restaurant tableware hailed as fast-food ‘revolution’ in France, The Guardian (Dec 28, 2022)
- Mountain gorillas: The ripple effect of conservation, BBC News (Jun 20, 2022)
- Eco-friendly tech comes with its own environmental costs: that’s why it’s vital to cut energy demand now, The Conversation (Jun 16, 2022)
- Swap salmon for sardines to keep four million tonnes of fish in the sea, The Conversation (Mar 01, 2022)
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