Channel 4 documentary Dispatches went undercover in Ghana where children as young as 10 have been working gruelling hours to supply cocoa beans to Cadbury – Britain’s favourite chocolate brand. Their undercover investigation, Cadbury Exposed: Dispatches, revealed illegal conditions on farms that support Cadbury’s ethical farming scheme Cocoa Life. Cocoa Life was set up by…
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Where food comes from
In the UK, farmers are held to account by the Red Tractor scheme. Food that carries the Red Tractor logo has been responsibly sourced, safely produced, and comes from crops and animals that have been well cared for. Imports are often accountable to lower standards than UK grown foods and can therefore be sold…
Right on the mark
Do you sleep-shop by defaulting to your go-to brand when choosing a product? Unless a brand has a compelling point of difference, it can look like a sea of same. Assuming you have the time to explore and want to support a brand doing the right thing, you’d facing a tsunami of eco and sustainable…
Walk the Walk: How to avoid greenwashing on your sustainability journey
Greenwashing is defined as behaviour or activities that make people believe that a company, government, or organisation is doing more to protect the environment than it really is. Idealists would have us believe doing the right thing is easy. For long established businesses with embedded legacy supply chains, change is hard. Is Greenwashing inevitable as…
Future of Farming
Over the last 6 months the Citizen Good impact team have been working with DEFRA, looking into how government policy should evolve around the future of farming agenda in the UK. They have been working with farmers and businesses exploring how corporate funds could work together with government funds to achieve a greater environmental and…
Chewing Gum is a single use plastic
85% of consumers don’t know chewing gum contains plastic. Did you know that chewing gum is a single use plastic? We didn’t, but it does. Each piece of gum contains as much plastic as a drinking straw, so it’s great to see a British business doing something about it. …
An ancient technology getting us to Net Zero
In the race to Net Zero we are always on the look-out for new technologies that can get us there faster. Perhaps the solution has always been right under our feet. An inspiring new project plans to map the worlds fungal networks. These networks live underground and are the ‘coral reefs’ of the…
Snapshot on PepsiCo @ COP26
It’s always telling when a CEO gives an interview, it has the ability to cut through the paperwork of the annual reports, sustainability statements and shareholder commitments, hearing first-hand what’s on their mind? In this snapshot we share PepsiCo’s CEO, Ramon Laguarta’s, interview with CNBC at COP 26 last week. PepsiCo are driving…
International Wholegrain day 2021
How nutritious is the food we eat? Over the last 20 years, calorie counting has been a consistent theme in our consumption habits. Most food bought in a UK supermarket will offer clear labelling highlighting the number of calories. By April 2022 all restaurant menus, takeaways, cafes, entertainment venues will be required, by law,…
The Crap We Care About
We like to be unambiguously passionate and our conversation with Simon Griffiths, Co-Founder and CEO of the hugely successful Who Gives A Crap brand is the reason why. 2.4 billion people, or roughly 40% of global citizens, don’t have access to a toilet. More disturbingly, 289,000 children aged under 5 die every year…