This year on ‘Black Friday’, when many companies discount products, the American shoe company Allbirds will increase product prices by 1 US dollar. The company will donate the extra dollar…
Consumer Consciousness
According to researchers from the Environment Agency Austria, microplastics have been found in human stools for the first time. The study showed that all 8 of the participants from Russia,…
Meat industry competitor Beyond Meat has filed for a $100 million IPO. The California plant-protein company produces vegan alternatives for meats, including its Hot Italian Sausage, Lightly Seasoned Chicken Strips,…
(Published Sept 2014, updated Dec 2018) “Once our personal connection to what is wrong becomes clear, then we have to choose: we can go on as before recognising our dishonesty…
Research including over 25,000 participants in China, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has shown that air pollution affects brain function. Xi Chen and his colleagues Xi…
The European Parliament has voted 571-53 to ban single-use plastics, including plastic cutlery, stirrers, cups, straws, plates, and cotton bud sticks, from 2021. The directive bans certain single-use plastics “where alternatives…
