The Year Earth Changed – Highlights
This week I watched the absolutely stunning new documentary ‘The Year Earth Changed’ – launched by Apple TV+ and narrated by the one and only Sir David Attenborough. As humans all but disappeared from...
Category: Awareness
Meet the Regenerators
Mary Milne from Traidcraft Exchange introduces their new appeal. I wonder if you’ve seen Sir David Attenborough’s recent Netflix documentary A Life on our Planet? If you haven’t, it’s well worth a watch. He...
How do people become trapped in Modern Slavery in 2020?
This Christmas, Traidcraft Exchange is appealing for donations to support those trapped in debt bondage – a form of modern slavery experienced by over 8 million people worldwide. Coronavirus is making a bad situation...
Not This Christmas – Traidcraft Exchange Appeal
For two years Traidcraft Exchange has supported people to break the chains of modern day slavery in India and Bangladesh, as part of our mission to challenge injustice in trade and business across the...
The Revolution is Just a T Shirt Away
T-Shirts have to be the most common item of clothing for people in the UK (excluding underwear!) so for such a staple item it’s amazing just how much they are loved, everyone has or...
Bee Friendly Flowers for your Garden
In celebration of Don’t Step On a Bee Day coming up on the 10th of July, we wanted to offer a little advice on the best types of flowers to grow in your garden...
Some surprising places you’ll find hidden plastic (and some plastic free alternatives)
We all know the problem with plastic, it’s something we’ve been banging on about for a long time! In the last few years the issue has really come into the public consciousness and people...
Black Lives Matter – How to educate yourself
The Black Lives Matter movement strives to eradicate white supremacy and build local power that can intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. Black Lives Matter is a collective...
Ella Daish’s Campaign for Plastic Free Periods
The plastic problem has now been well publicised and things seem to be (slowly) moving in the right direction, whilst we may all be doing our bit by thinking about what we buy, making...
Will you take the 90kg Rice Challenge?
Just Trading Scotland launched the 90kg Rice Challenge as the perfect social enterprise activity for schools, churches and community groups with it covering a range of prevalent issues including sustainability, fair trade, social enterprise...