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Is vegan the new ethical marketing buzzword?

The trend used to be that marketers and advertisers would latch onto anything green, natural or organic. Even if they wouldn’t explicitly say it, because it would blatantly be lying, they would use pristine rainforests, crystal clear lakes and cascading waterfalls. They let the images lawfully speak for them. The trend towards ‘greening’ every product on the market has gotten so out of control that the term Greenwashing was coined…

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Environment/ General

Behind the News

Far too often the media glosses over bigger issues in order to retain their unbiased standpoint. In an attempt to avoid making broad generalizations or looking at the implications of the stock standard news piece. In the New Scientist this week there was a brief piece looking at land use for crops and pastures. From this small snippet we learn that more than a third of the Earth not comprised…

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Frugally and Environmentally Friendly Transportation Alternatives

A high number of people who completely forgo dietary animal consumption are wholly peace and ecologically minded. Extending into the area of travel are legitimate concerns surrounding fuel dependency such as the negative effects of carbon emissions on the planet, and of foreign oil dependency because of which deadly conflicts are a current reality. Those who are environmentally conscious struggle daily to find affordable, reliable and environmentally friendly transportation in…

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Environment/ Veganism

Veganism vs. Freeganism

It has been said that just because you’re a vegan doesn’t mean that you’re living an ethical life. A cruelty-free life; yes. But an environmentally conscious, organic, fair trade, anti-consumerist, localist, ethical life; maybe not. Or at least that’s the way freegan’s see things.   Freegans are people who take the idea of living an ethical life to the extreme. The vast majority of freegans are vegans, however, a small…

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