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There are already millions of users in The Fediverse, but for those who are still new to it how should I explain? 🤔

I know! 💡 I’ll let more articulate people than myself elaborate…

This article by Per Axbom is a nice introduction if you’d like to read about it. 🤓

This interactive … … Read on …

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For its 10th anniversary in 2023 Ethical Revolution went minimal!

Inspired by Jack Lenox and his SustyWP Theme Ethical Revolution removed all of the frilly features in order to offer its service at a fraction of the data usage, reducing its carbon footprint as much as it possibly could.

As Jack had said, “The … … Read on …

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The emptying of supermarket shelves during the COVID pandemic demonstrated the chaos that disruption to the UK’s food supply can provoke. Could this type of disruption have a different cause in the future? And what might the impact on society be?

These are the questions we sought to answer in our new … … Read on …

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Sven Teske, University of Technology Sydney

This weekend, the world’s major economies will convene in Delhi for the G20 summit. On the table will be the common goal of limiting global temperature rise as climate chaos becomes ever more evident.

When we talk about limiting climate change, we’re really talking about the … … Read on …

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Article by Michael Clark, University of Oxford and Keren Papier, University of Oxford

We know that meat has a substantial impact on the planet, and that plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable. But exactly how much impact does the food we eat have on environmental outcomes and what difference would following a … … Read on …

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Recycling was once considered the obvious solution to the excessive amount of new (or virgin) plastic produced each year. This is no longer realistic. Global recycling capacity simply cannot keep up with the taking, making and wasting of natural resources.

Growing mountains of plastic waste are accumulating in the poorest countries as … … Read on …

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Article by Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology and Louise Grimmer, University of Tasmania

You face a dilemma. You’ve found the perfect shirt, and it’s an absolute bargain, but you notice it’s “Made in Bangladesh”. You’re conscious it was probably made using cheap labour. Do you buy it, or walk away?

Today Oxfam … … Read on …

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Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University

The three most prevalent myths about tackling climate change allege that transitioning to renewable energy jacks up household bills, requires massive amounts of government subsidy and creates mass unemployment. These concerns are all (thankfully) false.

With fellow academics, I studied instances from the past 30 years when governments … … Read on …

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Victor Galaz, Stockholm University

Our planet is altering at a dangerous pace due to climate change. And at the same time, we seem to be entering a period of unprecedented technological transformation. Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and internet-connected devices are creating increasingly complex intelligent technological systems.

As pressures on the planet … … Read on …

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Way back in 2017 I carried out a survey of the top 10 ethical online booksellers, ranking them for things including customer experience, packaging and price relative to Amazon. I then combined my results with Ethical Consumer Magazine’s ‘ethiscore’ for each bookseller to give a top ten list of alternatives to … … Read on …

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Focusing on cutting emissions alone won’t halt ecological decline, we must consume less – former UK chief environmental adviser

Reaching net zero emissions has become the focal point of government efforts to halt climate and ecological breakdown. It is easy to aim for but much more difficult to deliver – and worse, … … Read on …

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By using an offsetting tool* provided by Climate Impact Partners you can take some responsibility for your residual emissions and compensate for your carbon footprint. Just work out how much the carbon footprint of your activities is and then offset the equivalent amount by supporting high quality climate change tackling projects. … … Read on …

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Article originally from a 2014 issue of Ethical Consumer Magazine.

Open source enthusiast Nic Wistreich tells us what this often misunderstood software movement is all about.

Open source is one of those phrases that gets thrown around, from the Cabinet Office now asking for it in government ICT contracts, to cyber-libertarians saying it … … Read on …

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Here are 6 points that suggest that austerity is an ideological choice:

1. George Osborne is selling RBS back to private hands for £12-£13bn less than we, the tax payer, bailed it out for. -The same amount that the cuts confirmed in the budget on July 8th 2015 amount to. (http://action.sumofus.org/a/rbs-sell-off/)

2. Corporate … … Read on …