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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 years.” Walking into the Chocolatier Constance Popp shop, you’re greeted...

                                                                                                             

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...