When discussing Fair Trade and the use of co-operatives as a healthy business model in developing areas, I often get asked what a co-operative (co-op) is. Allow me to give an explanation here for people who may not have grasped an understanding of this business model before, and allow to me to share why I think it is a strong [...]

There are a few different ways of referring to the topic of this article. Some refer to it using the mouthful – “Socially Conscious Purchases” or “Socially Aware Consuming”. Over at Phoenix and in many other places they’re calling it “Ethical Consumption”. I like that term, but love the subversive tone in “Shopping Activism” so am going to work with [...]

Six young fashion heads from the U.K experience the labour in India used to make the clothes they love:

Filmed by BBC3.