Scottish Charity Number: SC 028744 Student Volunteer Centre,
5/1 Bristo Square
Edinburgh EH8 9AL
UK
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Scottish Charity Number: SC 028744 Student Volunteer Centre, 5/1 Bristo Square Edinburgh EH8 9AL UK |
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Independent, co-op or ethical consumer sitesBlack Spot Sneaker - Adbuster's new sneaker, aiming to overtake Nike as the coolest trainers around.Adventures in Ethical Consumerism - a blog with info on ethical consumerism, with loads of links to ethical traders, companies, info sites, and other ethical blogs Charity Bank - a CAF project, Charity Bank has accounts for individuals, charities and corporations. All income is used to support charities, mainly by offering low-interest loans. You can choose to recieve the interest or donate some of it to charity, and it's the only bank that will make loans to small charities. The Co-op Bank - seeks to uphold the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through its investments, so will not invest in any government or business which fails to uphold basic human rights within its sphere of influence, or any business whose links to an oppressive regime are a continuing cause for concern. Ecotricity - switch to the 'New Energy' tariff, and Firefly will get £10 when you put 'Kids International' as the place where you heard about Ecotricity. Envocare - the information site that promotes care of the environment. Includes information on recycling, environmentally friendly computer and phone disposal, ethical financial management, energy conservation resources, composting, environment-related articles and news, and a charity resources page. Ethical Consumer - The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names Ethical Threads - clothing and merchandise sourced from workplaces that meet international conventions on workers rights, and which are verified by free trade unions. Mainly directed at making the music industry sweatshop free The Fairtrade Foundation - info on the Fairtrade movement, guaranteeing a better deal to producers in the developing world; plus links to fairtrade sellers, producers, and other ethical sites Get Ethical - created by Red Pepper and The Big Issue magazines. By buying through getethical, you are purchasing products or services that are reducing environmental impact and/or are made by social business investing in the local economy and helping to create sustainable communities. Getethical screen all the companies hosted on the site to ensure they pay more than just lip service to environmental and social justice issues as well as offering good quality, reasonably priced products Mooncups - the environmentally friendly alternative to tampons No Sweat - No Sweat is an activist, campaigning organisation, fighting sweatshop bosses, in solidarity with workers, worldwide No Sweat Apparel - sweatshop free, union-made casual clothing, trainers etc The Phone Co-op - A phone co-operative, offering a more ethical and environmentally responsible approach to business plus cheaper phone bills 
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