Tag Archives: ethical living
Andrew Lahde bows out in style
Posted in: In the news by Will Watt , November 25, 2008 – 12:15 pm
The link below is a letter from hedge fund manager Andrew Lahde shutting down his fund. It got quite a lot of attention on the internet and in blogs for his candid assessment of the state of US banking. You may well wonder what the hell this has to do with Green issues.
In his…
What would make football more ethical?
Posted in: Burning issues by Andrew Zincke , November 4, 2008 – 12:04 pm
The latest issue of Ethical Consumer magazine has a good piece on Premiership football clubs. Sarah Irving’s article acknowledges that supporting a club is hardly a matter of choice on the same level as, say, washing powder but she explores some thought-provoking points.
Ethical Consumer rates all the clubs by the corporate ethics of their owners,…
The ethics of killing
Posted in: Burning issues, In the news by Lily Barclay , October 28, 2008 – 3:27 pm
A 19-year-old gamekeeper, at the Kempton estate in south Shropshire, received a six-month suspended prison sentence last month for killing legally protected species, including badgers and buzzards.
Kyle Burden’s actions came to light when two other gamekeepers witnessed him clubbing badgers that were still caught in a snare and shooting buzzards with a shotgun. They reported…
Green prisons
Posted in: Burning issues by Lily Barclay , October 8, 2008 – 10:23 am
Green architecture, a private beach and organic cuisine might sound like the credentials of a luxury spa, but it’s actually the world’s first ecological jail. Inmates at Bastoey Prison in Norway are responsible for recycling their rubbish, tending the vegetables and caring for the prison’s lambs, cows and pigs. And drugs aren’t the only banned…
