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 model for developing areas.

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 that. Every purchase we make is an act that says something, whether we like it [...]

Six young fashion heads from the U.K experience the labour in India used to make the clothes they love: Filmed by BBC3.