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21st-28th June 2026 marks Fair Tax Week – a celebration of the positive contribution responsible tax conduct makes to society.
There are a whole load of events and webinars you can join in with during the week, culminating in Tax Justice Sunday.
The week also serves as a platform … … Read on …
Posted on 20 June 2026[Read on Ethical Revolution]
That would be nice, eh?! Not many days or places we get to breathe clean air. But that’s what Clean Air Day is all about: Using our voices to raise awareness and help to clean up our air.
Recognised by the UK Government and the World Health Organisation as the … … Read on …
Posted on 18 June 2026[Read on Ethical Revolution]
It’s Bike week! A celebration of cycling, showing how it can make everyday life better for people and communities across the UK.ย ย
The mission is to create happier, healthier and greener lives through cycling, inspiring more people to experience its benefits.
Whether you cycle every day, ride occasionally or have … … Read on …
Posted on 08 June 2026[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Removing river barriers no longer in use (which often entail safety issues when left unmaintained) can have positive effects on climate change.
Last year a record 603 dams were removed across Europe, reconnecting 2300 miles of waterways, according to Dam Removal Europe. In total they’ve overseen almost 10,000 barriers removed … … Read on …
Posted on 07 June 2026[Read on Ethical Revolution]
#WorldEnvironmentDay 2026 focuses on climate changeโon the urgent signals the Earth is sending and the signals we choose to send back.
We should probably have begun reframing all of this stuff – ‘climate emergency/threat to the environment’ – as ‘human emergency/threats to humanity’ as in reality that’s what it is, … … Read on …
Posted on 05 June 2026[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) have calculated that Amazon’s systematic corporation tax avoidance in 2024 could have cost UK citizens around ยฃ575 million in lost taxes.
๐ฅ Measured in nurses that’s 23,504 starting salaries that could have been paid for in the year.
๐ฉโโ๏ธ Measured in doctors that’s 14,808 … … Read on …
Posted on 26 November 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Earlier this year I managed to finally move my email subscribers away from Mailchimp to a self-hosted solution.
Having moved a lot of things away from big tech in recent years I’ve had moving the newsletters nagging on me for some while.
I have two email lists. One is … … Read on …
Posted on 21 August 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The International Court of Justiceย at The Hague has ruled that countries are legally obliged to prevent harms caused by climate change.
Judges clarified the legal obligations that countries have to protect the Earthโs climate system for current and future generations.
They also clarified the legal consequences for nations that … … Read on …
Posted on 24 July 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Did you know the UN has made 2025 ‘International year of co-operatives’?
Co-ops are democratically owned businesses or organisations, with the co-op’s members in control to meet their shared needs.ย The members may be customers, employees, residents or suppliers.
All co-ops the world over shares the same 7 principles and 10 … … Read on …
Posted on 16 July 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The Climate Change Committee (UK governmentโs advisory panel) revealed to parliament last week that 2024 emissions were down by almost 50% to the levels from 1990, putting the country on course to meet their target of a 68% cut by 2030.
The main driver has been the swap of … … Read on …
Posted on 30 June 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The likes of Sam Ryder, Greentea Peng, Self Esteem and the Nova Twins got on board with a campaign to make event travel greener this week by traveling via rail to Glastonbury Festival.
They were just some of the artists alongside many revellers who signed up to the โI came … … Read on …
Posted on 27 June 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Earlier this year designer Wendy Ward launched a campaign aimed at fashion brands over their waste and greenwashing.
The campaign urges anyone to post end-of-life items back to the brands who made them along with a letter demanding accountability both for the wastage of textiles and of false recycling promises. … … Read on …
Posted on 26 June 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A new toolkit for workplace climate action called The Green Workplaces Toolkit has been published by the TUC to address the climate emergency, future-proof jobs, and negotiate greener and fairer workplaces.
Incredibly detailed and full of good info it’s a whopping 174 pages long. A thorough contents page can help … … Read on …
Posted on 25 June 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Having spent many years fighting period poverty and raising awareness through the business, the amazing Earthwise Girls is sadly closing its doors and offering 40% off all remaining stock.
Some of the achievements of Earthwise Girls:
Donated thousands of reusable period pads to The Nasio Trust to fight period poverty in … … Read on …
Posted on 24 June 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
In August last year Massive Attack staged a ‘proof of concept’ one-day festival in Bristol to show that low carbon festivals are doable. I was lucky enough to attend the event and I wrote an extensive report on it at the time.
The Tyndall Centre for Climate Research has now … … Read on …
Posted on 23 June 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A poll of more than 15,000 people across 13 nations has been conducted on behalf of Oxfam and @greenpeace, resulting in a whopping 81% of people believing that governments should tax oil, gas and coal corporations for the environmental damage they cause, including wildfires, flooding and drought.
With this … … Read on …
Posted on 22 June 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The recently published 2025 World Happiness Report (the 13th edition of the report) has focussed on the impact of caring and sharing on peopleโs happiness.
Drawing on a study by Oxford Universityโs Wellbeing Research Centre showing that people are a lot kinder than we might otherwise expect, the research … … Read on …
Posted on 28 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) have announced that they may develop a rating standard for artificial intelligence (AI) use by businesses.
Factors including energy consumption, human rights, accountability mechanisms and workers’ rights would all be up for examination.
Ruairidh Fraser at Ethical Consumer magazine has written a piece … … Read on …
Posted on 26 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
I’ve said it before and new research is saying it again: Nature is a great healer.
A new study by researchers from the Universities of both Vienna and Exeter has found that just viewing nature can decrease activity in the brain linked to pain perception, thus helping ease our experience … … Read on …
Posted on 24 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A study by the Greater London Authority has shown that the cityโs levels of lethal pollutants have substantially decreased since the expansion of the UK capitalโs ultra low emission zone (Ulez).
The London-wide zone covers nine million people across 1500 km2, the world’s largest zone of its kind.ย
The report … … Read on …
Posted on 20 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Some good news in as much as the constant rise in greenhouse gas emissions is being curbed in the UK. Still a long way to go to get to real reversal numbers, but this new analysis by Carbon Brief tells that our emissions decreased 3.6% in 2024.
Above average … … Read on …
Posted on 17 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) have compiled a comprehensive report on the UK’s mobile network providers, revealing factors such as who pays their fair share of tax; who uses green energy; who are fair to their workers; and who direct their revenue to good causes.
TL;DR: There are four networks … … Read on …
Posted on 14 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Adding to the global push back against children using smartphones, Denmark has announced it will ban devices from schools and after-school clubs.
The announcement follows recommendations from a youth wellbeing commission, advocating restricting phones to all children until their teenage years.
Research has already shown that reducing phone use can … … Read on …
Posted on 10 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Today is a special reminder that every day we should be advocating for gender equality. For a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
As individuals, we can all take steps in our daily lives to achieve these goals and positively impact women’s … … Read on …
Posted on 08 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Last week the University of Sussex announced they will be launching an undergraduate degree in climate justice, sustainability and development from next year.
Activism, climate politics, environmental human rights and practical green skills will all be on the agenda.
With litigation now used to hold polluters to account and … … Read on …
Posted on 05 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Despite the cost of living crisis, demand for pesticide-free produce in the UK is going up.
The Soil Associationโs latest report shows sales of organic produce rose by 7.3% last year, in comparison to 4.7% for non-organic alternatives – double what it was a decade ago.
The report also shows that organic unit … … Read on …
Posted on 03 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A new campaign group called Shut the System have kick-started a new phase of the climate activist movement, aiming to shut down key actors in the fossil fuel economy.
In January they cut the internet cables to offices of more than 400 insurance brokers in some of the UK’s major cities. … … Read on …
Posted on 27 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The UK Climate Change Committee recommended that we should be eating more plant-based foods in order to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero.
One of the easiest ways to do this can be to add more pulses in to our diets.
Pulses, which include various beans, peas, lentils … … Read on …
Posted on 26 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Cleanview, an energy research orgnisation, has been tracking Americaโs clean energy progress, combining public data with expert research to create a detailed picture of renewable energy development.
It has concluded that Republican states benefit the most from the country’s surging solar sector. In 2024 the USA added 47% more green … … Read on …
Posted on 25 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Latest research by The Carbon Brief has shown that China’s clean-energy sectors – renewables, electric vehicles and batteries โ drove a quarter of the countryโs gross domestic product growth in 2024. Worth a whopping $1.9 trillion, the clean energy sectors have overtaken real-estate sales in value. This is expected to … … Read on …
Posted on 24 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Last year I was listening to the Accidental Gods podcast with Manda Scott @Eceni (which had been recommended to me by Jonathan Schofield @urlyman) and the first episode I listened to really chimed with some intuitions I feel I’ve held for a long time.
It’s a brilliant episode and well worth … … Read on …
Posted on 11 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
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The UK government is set to back plans for a third runway at Heathrow, the countryโs busiest airport, and to expand two other airports near London: Gatwick and Luton. The move is designed to support the governmentโs โmissionโ to grow the economy.
Air transport is … … Read on …
Posted on 31 January 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A study led by Queenโs University Belfast has found that more green space in the UKโs most deprived neighbourhoods could significantly reduce the number of preventable deaths.
Currently the most deprived urban areas in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland have the lowest provision of green space. Only in Wales … … Read on …
Posted on 29 January 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Pesticides Action Network (PAN) has ranked the UKโs ten biggest supermarkets on their efforts to protect consumers, farmworkers, and wildlife from pesticides.
While some supermarkets are doing much better than others, all ten could be doing more to tackle pesticide harms.
This is particularly true when it comes to protecting … … Read on …
Posted on 27 January 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Nothing to see here, keep buying! ๐
Last year’s estimated carbon cost from Black Friday equated to 429,000 tonnes of CO2 admitted into the atmosphere from product deliveries alone.
– The same as over 4 billion miles driven by an average gasoline-powered car.
And then returned items bought … … Read on …
Posted on 29 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
According to latest estimates, Amazon’s corporation tax avoidance could have cost UK citizens around ยฃ433 million in lost taxes in 2023 alone.
ยฃ433 million could be used to recruit:
12,735 additional nurses, or
5,932 additional doctors, or
12,735 new teachers.
Or ยฃ433 million could pay for:
1,443,333 additional winter fuel payments of ยฃ300 this year, … … Read on …
Posted on 29 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
It is estimated that 80% of electronics and clothing bought on Black Friday, plus the plastic packaging they are wrapped in, end up in landfill, incineration, or low-quality recycling after a very short life. ๐คฆ
Better to avoid Amazon
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Posted on 29 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
โฆaka Buy Nothing Day. -No better day to get started on the first of my 26 Steps from A-Z to a better world: Avoid Amazon.
As one of the least ethical and most harmful companies on the planet check out my guide on why and how to get by … … Read on …
Posted on 29 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Itโs been a blissful start to peace and quiet week here at Ethical Revolution HQ in the run up to Buy Nothing Day aka Green Friday, also now dubbed Unsubscribe Day!
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Posted on 25 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The four-day working week could be edging closer as a thousand employees across various industries take part in a new pilot of a four-day week in the UK.
Their hours will be cut while their pay-packet will remain the same, with the findings from the pilot to be presented to … … Read on …
Posted on 20 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/climate-change-is-hitting-women-the-hardest/
The current capitalist system has created two related crises: ecological decline and social injustice. It has led to environmental damage like climate change, which affects some people more than others.
The two crises mutually reinforce the consequences of the same flawed systems of oppression and power. Climate … … Read on …
Posted on 18 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/decarbonisation-of-uk-grid-by-2030/
The National Energy System Operatorโs (NESO) have issued a report in which they say the UKโs goal to decarbonise its electricity grid by 2030 and provide clean power might be โa huge challengeโ but that it is โcredibleโ, “achievable” and “will put Great Britain in a strong … … Read on …
Posted on 13 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/10-reasons-donald-trump-cant-derail-global-climate-action/
If you care about saving Earth from catastrophe, you might be feeling a little down about the re-election of Donald Trump as United States president. Undeniably, his return to the White House is a real setback for climate action.
Trump is a climate change denier who has promised … … Read on …
Posted on 11 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/what-about-china/
Chinaโs State Power Investment Corporation connected their largest offshore wind farm (106 turbines over 55 sq miles) to the grid last week as it began generating electricity for the nation.
It is estimated to produce 2.55bn kilowatt hours of renewable energy per year, preventing 829,000 tonnes of tonnes … … Read on …
Posted on 09 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
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“GDP is an outdated way of measuring the health of the economy โ it doesnโt reflect the health of people or the planet.” -has been published in The Conversation. Good to see this notion filtering in to the mainstream!
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Posted on 08 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/largest-land-sale-in-30-years-a-showcase-for-nature-recovery
Nearly 10,000 acres of land in north-east UK is being bought by Wildlife Trusts.
Previously used for bloodsports and animal agriculture the new ownership of the Rothbury estate in Northumberland will ban hunting and practice regenerative farming only as they look to give nature the chance to … … Read on …
Posted on 07 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/us-humans-are-complicated
We often say we want to make greener choices โ but in reality, we act differently.
Individual climate action sounds great in theory. If many of us chose electric vehicles or bikes, installed solar panels and built energy efficient houses, our actions in aggregate could contribute to wider … … Read on …
Posted on 06 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/eu-net-greenhouse-gas-emissions-drop
With this place focussing a lot of attention towards negativity in the USA right now here’s some positivity in EU for you…
@PositiveNewsUK@press.coop has reported that 2023 saw an 8% total net greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the European Union. For context that’s a level similar to … … Read on …
Posted on 06 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/chris-packham-forces-uk-government-to-reconsider-green-pledge
Rishi Sunak announced in 2023 that he would drop green policies from the UK’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan (CBDP), including:
a transition away from petrol, and diesel free cars and vans by 2030.
the phasing out of new and replacement gas boilers by 2035.
a ban on installing fossil fuel … … Read on …
Posted on 05 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/cattle-cowboys-climate-chaos/
In recent decades, scientists have warned that industrial meat production, and beef in particular, fuels climate change and leads to deforestation, soil erosion, species extinction, ocean dead zones and high levels of methane emissions.
Yet todayโs average American still eats three hamburgers per week! ๐คฏ ๐ฎ ๐คฎ
The … … Read on …
Posted on 01 November 2024