Update. March 2010
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Make the Fairtrade Chocolate
choice! |
They receive a fair price and funds to develop their communities and invest in everyday things like education and healthcare. To view the range of Fairtrade chocolate choices available, including the range of Easter eggs available from Scarborough Fair, Chocolatier and Cocolo, visit www.fairtrade.com.au |
Have you been on a
'Shopping with a Concience' workshop and supermarket tour? We're running other sustainable shopping workshops and presentations in Kew, Sunshine, Eltham, Ashburton and Knox City over the coming months. Find out details of one your area and register online here . (Text list here). |
Ethical Consumer Group "Meal
& Movie nights"
The Ethical Consumer Group meets once a month to discuss aspects of living out sustainable alternatives in a consumerist culture. Join us on the 2nd Thursday of each month for dinner 6.30 - 7.30pm - byo 'food and thoughts' to share - and/or movie begins 8pm. Wrap up by 10.30pm. Food Inc. - 15th April - Seddon |
Celebrate the Fair Trade movement and campaign for justice in trade practices.
Checkout the Fair Trade Festival at Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market
on Sunday the 16th of May between 10.00am to 4.00pm. Find out how
to convert your Workplace, School, University, Place of Worship,
Council, or City to fairtrade at www.fairtrade.com.au/ftf2010 |
"People
have the right to know what they’re putting in, on, and around their
bodies. There are three simple things everyone should know about
their food but don’t: Where did it come from? How was it made? What’s
in it?"(from the Good
Guide Transparency Manifesto) |
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Palm
oil labelling - Act Now! A huge 100,000 people have now signed Melbourne Zoo's Don’t Palm us Off petition to mandate the labelling of palm oil on all food products. As an individuals or organisations make your submission to the Senate Committee. Remember that you can take a range of angles - animal rights, human rights, health, consumer rights. To read more about the Bill here (click on the Food Standards Amendment Truth in Labelling – Palm Oil Bill 2009). See submission guidelines at the Don’t Palm us Off website www.zoo.org.au/palmoil |
Why label palm-oil? In short - * Australians should be able to choose whether their purchases contribute to the loss of an eco-system and species such as the Orang-utan * Labelling palm-oil helps to show which food manufacturers are not purchasing ethical sources of palm-oil * Labelling will help drive a market for a sustainable palm-oil industry that considers the needs of people and wildlife. |
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Labelling
review There are public forum being held - Melbourne's is on Thursday 29th April. The closing date for written submissions is 14 May 2010. More at www.foodlabellingreview.gov.au. |
Kick the Reflex habit. The "Kick Reflect"
campaign is calling on the Maryvale Mill, and parent company Nippon
Paper to cease purchasing logs from high conservation value forests,
water catchments and threatened species habitat. The power of paper
retailers, suppliers and consumers is vital in telling the company
that our forests are more important than logging for paper. www.kickreflex.com |
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Tell the Brumby Government it's their turn to save water as they tell us to under their Target 155 Scheme. Native forest clearfell logging in Melbourne's catchments costs billions of litres of water. www.target155.org.au Find copy papers with non-native fibres at www.wilderness.org.au/files/paper-guide-09 |
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First rule of Ethical purchasing - 'Ask do I need it'? |
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2010 pocket guide .iPhone app Hemp Bag |
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... well perhaps you do (or perhaps you don't) ?
See news and print guide updates at http://www.ethical.org.au/news
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