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• Commodity (Ecology)

  Consuming seriously damages your health… and that of the planet

  1 January 2012, by VIVAS Esther

  "A woman, desperate to get the best offers in the Wal-Mart sale, discharged pepper-spray at people in order to drive them away from the items she wanted.” This could be a scene from a Pedro Almodovar film had it not been seen in real life. On the 25/11/2011 such a story appeared in the Los (...)

• Commodity (Ecology)

  Why fast fashion is slow death for the planet

  8 May 2011, by SIEGLE Lucy

  With high-street chains churning out fresh designs every few weeks, we now buy more cheap clothes than ever before. But as Lucy Siegle reveals in her hard-hitting new book To Die For, it’s a trend that will cost us far more than we imagine.
  Every morning when I wake up I am confronted by my (...)