Low Wages and Tough Choices for Assam Tea Pickers
Poverty is insidious in how it affects so many areas of life for those who live below the poverty line. Your priorities and worries are very different when you have no idea where your...
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Ruby Red Skincare… Naturally
We are very excited to announce the arrival of our latest natural skin care range from Ruby Red, a UK based company founded by Martine Buford and Mike Ruby. During an 18 month sabbatical...
Festival Favourites 2013
We’re beavering away here at Ethical Superstore HQ, preparing for the Summer and searching for loads of new eco products to list. Check out our festivals favourites to see what we’ve found.
World Environment Day – what’s it all about?
According to the UN’s Food & Agricultural Organisation, we waste 1.3 billion tons of food per year across the world. To put that in perspective, if we’re talking about ton bags of rice, you’d...
World Fair Trade Day – What are we doing to make the world a better place?
Today is World Fair Trade Day – a day when we celebrate the contribution that fair trade producers, importers, retailers and consumers are making to changing the very rules of trade. Rules which are...
Enough Food for Everyone IF
Many of you will remember the G8 leaders coming to Edinburgh in 2005 and the whole Make Poverty History campaign that was used in the run up to it. The aim was to keep...
Fancy joining the Ethical Superstore team?
We are currently recruiting for an online sales and marketing manager. Online Sales and Marketing Manager Have you got what it takes to tell the world about ethicalsuperstore.com and its sister sites? Do you...
Fairtrade?… Fair Point
Each year around this time we celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight, a time where everyone can do what they can to spread the word about Fairtrade. It has remained at the centre of what we do...
The Answer To Longer Life?
Like it or not, those living in the Mediteranean region enjoy a longer life that we Northern Europeans. This could be for a number of reasons; increased exposure to the Sun, for example but...
No TV Extremist
Armed with a caravan, solar laptop and toothpaste made from washed-up cuttlefish bones, former economics student Mark Boyle decided to give up using cash. His ideas and solutions touch on a common theme that...