Ethical Consumer's latest essential tips for reducing your impact on climate change are to get an electric car (using renewable electricity), install solar panels (not as cheap as I'd hoped - ed), switch to green electricity and to buy low energy light bulbs. (I guess switching off electrical applicances and walking instead of taking the car should also be highlighted - ed again).
The Ethical Consumer's "Ethi Score" web site (www.ethiscore.org) gives a numerical rating designed to allow consumers to compare companies across a range of corporate responsibility issues, including the environment, human and animal rights (the higher the score, the better a company's ethical record) and provides a campaining element whereby a "I like" or "I don't like" email can be despatched directly to the company, either rewarding positive ethical behaviour, or criticising their corporate activities. Evidence so far has shown that companies are responding seriously to this activity.
Free press copies of the special climate change issue of Ethical Consumer magazine are available to members of the press (I'm sure they'll give you a copy for your group's newsletter to review - it's got some good info in such as Green & Blacks being taken over by Cadbury's - Ed)
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