Allergy Awareness Week
Fact of the week: UK hospital admissions for food allergies have increased by 500% since 1990 (Gupta, 2007) This week is Allergy Awareness Week so we thought we’d highlight some of the issues around...
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Ethical Kitchen Herby Chickpea Balls with Tomato Sauce
Serves 3 Preparation: 15 mins Cooking: 20 mins Ingredients 2 slices white bread, crusts off and torn into pieces 75g parmesan or vegetarian alternative, 50g roughly chopped and 25g grated 400g can chickpeas, drained...
Coconut oil, the best thing in the world?
Coconut oil is big, not long ago people would have given you a strange look if you told them you put coconut oil in your hair. Now it seems as though everyone is using...
Easter Egg recycling
This week the Guardian wrote an interesting post about Sainsbury’s offering dedicated packaging recycling bins. The first facility of its kind, being trialled in 50 stores, this will allow customers to recycle all elements...
The New Eco Friendly Kettle – Make Way for Colonel Thermal
If you like your coffee (or tea!) like me, you’ll LOVE this.
World Water Day 2014
Fact of the week: 75% off all industrial water withdrawals are used for energy production. Did you know 22nd March is World Water Day? Well you do now!
Fair Squared – For Fairer Sex
In a recent Facebook poll during Fairtrade Fortnight, we asked our followers which Fairtrade labelled goods would they buy. The responses were plentiful but somewhat unimaginative with bananas being top, then coffee, tea and...
World Wildlife Day
Today is the inaugural World Wildlife Day, designated by the United Nations to: Celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora; Recall...
Could Bitcoin really be an alternative to Fairtrade?
With it being Fairtrade Fortnight this week, Fairtrade is in the news at the moment. Another hot topic over the last few months has been Bitcoin. Incase you didn’t know Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency...
Meet Foncho, a man on a Fairtrade mission to make bananas fair
The Fairtrade Foundation has launched a report today showing some very positive news for Fairtrade products, coinciding with the beginning of Fairtrade Fortnight which runs from 24th February to 9th March.