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Media/991/Download www.ethicalconsumer.org EC174 Sept/Oct 2018 £4.25 The world’s going electric! Why electric bikes & cars are the future for carbon-free transport Product guides to: Bikes, Cars and Restaurants Plus: Badger cull campaign latest, What is a regenerative business? Recycled Paper and Green 6MÄJL:\WWSPLZ*H[HSVN\L www.greenstat.co.uk Your opportunity to own a share of a NEW COMMUNITY WIND TURBINE near Lampeter If you are 16 or over you can apply for between £100* and £100,000 in shares and could earn an average annual return of 5% over 20 years (*see full terms on website). To find out more and to download your own copy of the Share Offer Document please visit www.grannellcoop.org.uk or email [email protected] or call 01743 835 243 Grannell Community Energy is a Community Benefit Society. Registration number: 7447 Studio One 114 Walcot Street Bath BA1 5BG Tel: 01225 480556 Fax: 01225 481211 Email: [email protected] 1 Image credit: Carmarthenshire Energy Carmarthenshire credit: Image RecyclingCatalogue_aw13.indd 1 12/11/2017 22:11 CAPITAL AT RISK. INVESTMENTS ARE LONG TERM AND MAY NOT abundanceinvestment.com BE READILY REALISABLE. ABUNDANCE IS AUTHORISED AND REGULATED BY THE FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY (525432). YOU WANT: YOU DON’T WANT: To create To create pollution a nest egg Investments for people exactly like you (although some drink flat whites) Editorial ethicalconsumer.org SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 Josie Wexler Editor Electric cars and bikes are fast In general, being involved in the liquid fuels game inevitably means being involved with a very repellent approaching industry. You can’t, it seems, stop petrol from stinking. This issue is primarily focused on transport, where electric vehicles have been picking up speed, and are Ethical Consumer Conference 2018 now fully geared up to drive us out of the oil age. Ethical Consumer’s conference this year is on Electric cars hold the key to many things beyond Innovations in Ethical Consumption – new ideas, themselves. They have a particularly symbiotic systems and ways of working that will enable us to think relationship with wind power, because they can be differently. charged at night when there is little electricity demand. Speakers confirmed so far include: Having a big fleet of electric cars ready to drink up the night wind makes it viable to put a lot more wind • Andy Goldring – CEO of the Permaculture turbines on the grid, as it does away with the danger of Association night electricity just having to be dumped. • Kate Sandle – Community Manager at B-Corps They have also helped to raise up their baby sister: the • Brhmie Balaram – Senior Researcher on the electric bike, which has piggy-backed on the amazing Economy, Enterprise and Manufacturing at the RSA improvements they have brought about in battery technology. As we discuss in our guide, electric bikes are Come and join us at 10:00am – 6:00pm on Friday now becoming a serious form of transport. October 12th, at the Amnesty International Resource Centre in Shoreditch, London. Petrol and diesel You can buy tickets at www.ethicalconsumer.org/ aboutus/conference2018. Early bird tickets cost £19, plus If all of the environmental reasons not to buy a petrol the booking fee, and include lunch. car weren’t enough, there are plenty more issues with the oil industry. Our accompanying online guide to petrol Badgers crowdfunder pulled and diesel suppliers – which we also summarise in this magazine – paints a wretched picture. We didn’t feel that In last magazine’s editorial we announced a 6 week we could recommend any of them. crowdfunder to fund a cartoon competition linking the badger cull to the Red Tractor logo. The winning And then there are the problems with biofuels, which cartoons were to be used in the forthcoming campaign are obligatorily mixed into petrol and diesel in the EU. against the cull. About a third of the EU’s biodiesel comes from palm oil. This is not so in the UK, where only a negligible However, we were almost immediately contacted by amount comes from palm, as we have more stringent lawyers acting for the Red Tractor, threatening libel sustainability criteria than many other EU countries.1 action. We took our own legal advice, and were told that we would be in danger of incurring substantial However, what we do domestically does not seem to costs if we went ahead, so we decided, sadly, that we be in tune with what we do at the EU level. While a had to pull it and refund the donors. We now intend ban on palm-based biofuels from 2020 is on the table to run a different campaign against the cull. For more in Brussels, the UK government has refused to say if information, see page 46. it supports it. The Ministry of Defence has apparently pushed for us to oppose it on the basis that it might References: 1 Department for Transport, 2018, Renewable Transport Fuel 2 Obligation statistics 2 www.independent.co.uk/environment/palm-oil- otherwise endanger our arms sales to Malaysia. malaysia-arms-deal-eurofighter-typhoon-biofuel-biodiesel-a8342211 Two Strap Sandal (Pewter) Panther Hemp (Black) Pimlico Shoe (Black) Bush Boot Slim (Brown Bonobo Boot (Cherry) Over 150 mens & womens styles: Casual, Formal, Sport, Leisure, Work, Hiking, Dress, Fashion, Sandals, Belts & Accessories Quality ‘breathable’ non-leather materials made in England & Europe Order direct: www.vegshoes.com Tel: 01273 691913 | [email protected] A treat for your feet if you don’t eat meat! Windows Doors Insulation Airtightness MVHR Passivhaus low energy homes Make your home warm, comfortable and energy efficient, with products and technical expertise from Green Building Store. Green building information hub Beautiful and inspiring Passivhaus and low energy projects ® www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk tel: 01484 461705 www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk Pioneers in low energy building since 1995 g b s knitting cat ad ethical consumer 91x137mm feb 2016 FINALp.indd 2 2/2/16 17:21:23 Contents ethicalconsumer.org SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 who’s who p22 product guides this Issue’s editors Josie Wexler cars proofing Ciara Maginness (littlebluepencil.co.uk) writers/researchers Jane Turner, Tim Hunt, Leonie 10 introduction Nimmo, Rob Harrison, Heather Webb, Anna Clayton, Joanna Long, Josie Wexler, Ruth Strange, Mackenzie 13 lower impact cars Denyer, Clare Carlile, Francesca de la Torre 15 top 30 greenest cars regular contributors Simon Birch, Bryony Moore, Shaun Fensom, Colin Birch 16 score table & Best Buys design and layout Adele Armistead (Moonloft), Jane Turner 18 electric car charging cover Adele Armistead (Moonloft), background image 20 doing without a car © Kran Kanthawong | Dreamstime.com cartoons Marc Roberts, Andy Vine, Richard Liptrot bicycles ad sales Simon Birch subscriptions Elizabeth Chater, Francesca Thomas 22 the greenest bikes press enquiries Simon Birch, Tim Hunt p38 enquiries Heather Webb 24 score table & Best Buys web editor Georgina Rawes thanks also to Eleanor Boyce, Josh Wittingham, electric bikes Jess Aurie 28 score table & Best Buys All material correct one month before cover date and © Ethical Consumer Research Association Ltd. ISSN restaurants 09 8608. 32 low wages and stolen tips Printed with vegetable ink by RAP Spiderweb Ltd, 33 children’s menus c/o the Commercial Centre, Clowes Centre, Hollinwood, Oldham OL9 7LY. 0161 947 3700. 34 score table & Best Buys Paper: 100% post-consumer waste, chlorine-free and sourced from the only UK paper merchant supplying 36 sustainable menus? only recycled papers – Paperback (www.paperbackpaper.co.uk). features Retail distribution is handled by Central Books on 0845 458 9911. Ethical Consumer is a member of INK news 40 regenerative businesses (independent news collective), an association of radical what would a regenerative and alternative publishers - www.ink.uk.com. 06 food & home business look like? Bayer-Monsanto merger, my 46 badger campaign We are a Living Wage employer, a multi-stakeholder vegan town, new Best Buys co-op, and Fair Tax Mark accredited. dump dairy and save the badger 08 clothes mohair, Detox, burned stock p40 09 boycotts about the advertisers Amazon, illegal settlements 31 beyond consumerism ECRA checks out advertisers before accepting their ads and reserves the right to refuse any advert. bike fixing ‘kitchens’ Covered in previous Product Guides: Co-operative 38 climate phone & broadband (145), Kingfisher Toothpaste (165), dark decisions in the uk, ireland Vegetarian Shoes (162), Windmill Organics (166). 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