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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 crept up to over 1,100, finger-pointing and calls for...

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 zoos—and other enclosures—and amusement parks renders the appearance of...

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 one or both of these practices deserves recognition for...

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 to begin and end their activism with ethical consumerism...

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 goal. Perhaps a little background is needed. GNU stands for...

Sustainability has entered the modern lexicon in a significant way. Business people and those who teach business are increasingly employing the term, once used almost exclusively by artists and activists, as an important part...

I have to admit, I’ve never been on board the big Marilyn Monroe bandwagon. It’s not that I hate her; it’s just that after so many years of seeing troubled, drug-addicted celebrities die young, I...