Like riding a short, wide bicycle
He is the namesake of an American brigadier general and an English footballer, but local musician and visual artist Steve Basham represents neither war nor…
2014
Kevin O’Really?
Michael Lee “…Really?” I’m sure many of you shared with Amanda Lang that same exasperated reaction upon hearing Kevin O’Leary’s perplexing comments on the Lang…
Introduction to the Ethical Consumption feature
The term “ethical consumer” grew into Western culture in the late 1980s – it was the title of a British magazine. The idea of support…
Chocolatier Constance Popp producing local, ethical, artisanal chocolates
To Constance Popp, purchasing local and ethical just makes sense. “We’ve become quite known for making and using local ingredients. We’ve been doing it for…
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Shopping for change
Watching coverage of the Rana Plaza factory collapse outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, in April 2013 was a startling wake-up call for many. As the death toll…
The captive animal entertainment industry
The captive animal industry is almost exclusively oriented towards human entertainment, even while words like “education,” “research,” and “conservation” are commonly used. The fusion of…
Ethical consumption is futile
Two common articulations of ethical consumption in our milieu are meat-free living and reliance on fair-trade, organic products. The person who decides to take up…
Veganarchism
The debate between the merits of so-called lifestyle activism versus those of revolutionary action is a hot-button issue on the left. There are those content…
Free software and ethical consumption
In September 1983, the GNU Project was born. GNU was to be a new kind of operating system: the first one with an explicit ethical…