Calling Green shoppers (Ethical Consumer Magazine)

Member Name: cswann

Product:	Ethical Consumer Magazine
Date:	01/09/00 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: Authoritative, up to date news on ethical issues

Disadvantages: Not in your local newsagent

For consumers who want to shop ethically, this bi-monthly magazine is produced by the Ethical Consumers Research Association has been around for something like 15 years now. It's extremely informative, and guaranteed to interest anyone who's the least bit interested in ethical matters in general.

Regular features include:
- Buyers' guide. Usually about 4 each issue e.g. computers, baby food, soft drinks. Like the Which? reports, different brands are compared, but the emphasis is on which is most 'environmentally friendly'. These are extremely detailed, and well researched, so you can pinpoint firms whose record is bad on animal rights, pollution, political donations, workers' rights, genetic engineering - whatever you are most interested in.
- Tynkyns - (Things You Never Knew You Needed), which really pokes fun at the useless objects you get in those glossy catalogues that fall out of the Sunday newspapers every now and then.
- Boycott news - unbiased reporting of various organisations' calls for boycott s of products or companies.
- Money section - ethical funds, Third world debt, etc.

The advertising is strictly controlled, too - so you only see things from firms who are ethically sound. Nice to see a magazine that practices what it preaches.
There are also plenty of cartoons in each issue, to lighten things up.

Sample issue and subscription details at www.ethicalconsumer.org

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