Challenging corporate power | Ethical Consumer
Discussing the ethics of companies and brands is now pretty mainstream. But with the state of the world as it is, it is time to think outside the box and imagine a different economy. One not based on ...
An excellent campaign from @ethical-consumer.bsky.social discussing:
- ditching for-profit companies
- imagining a world without corporate power
- the fight against the far-right
- converting businesses to co-ops and social enterprises
- challenging tech monopolies
+ loads more!
25.08.2025 10:07 — 👍 22 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Issue 216 is out now!
In this guide we take a look at ethical energy suppliers, heat pumps, solar panels and boilers.
We also have a featured article on Amazon's links to Trump.
Find out more here:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
27.08.2025 11:18 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Consolation, community, national identity: what is lost when pubs close – and how they can be saved
The cost of running a pub has risen dramatically.
Drawing on our research for the @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social funded After Last Orders project, @robertdeakin.bsky.social and I share some insights into the impact of pub closures in this new article for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/consolation-...
16.07.2025 11:47 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Cover image of journal Consumption and Society
New issue of Consumption and Society just out! Articles on #SustainableConsumption #mobility #FoodandSustainability #FoodPractices #MeatConsumption #vegan #WaterConsumption #SustainableFashion #TeachingSustainability
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
03.09.2025 09:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Editors' Choice Collection Consumption and Society
Editors' Choice Collection Consumption and Society
Want to know what articles our editors are recommending? Read our brand new Editors Choice Collection for Consumption and Society, free to access until January 2026! 📖 🌟
26.08.2025 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to announce “Consumption and Society” has been awarded its first Journal Impact Factor in the 2025 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), achieving a score of 3.0 and top quartile ranking of 22/219 in Sociology and 93/191 (second quartile) in Environmental Studies.
25.06.2025 09:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hey are you doing anything tomorrow afternoon? Why not join us for a webinar on everyday circularities?
#CircularEconomy #SocSky #SustainableLiving
@marlynesahakian.bsky.social
20.05.2025 12:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Environment Editor at The Times. Clean it Up water campaign. Planet Hope podcast host. When not working, usually running. Previously New Scientist and Guardian.
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The Economic Change Unit (ECU) campaigns to change the way the economy works so that everyone has the freedom and security to live a good life. Visit: econchange.org
Lawyer, Filmmaker, Big Issue top 100 Changemaker 2024, CEO CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE https://www.cfsj.co.uk/
Department of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno" - University of Padova👩🏽🎓👨🏻🎓
Author of Doughnut Economics, Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford Uni Environmental Change Institute. doughnuteconomics.org
Account for journal Environmental Politics.
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Website: https://environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/
ESRC-funded research organisation bringing together world-leading experts from a range of disciplines and backgrounds. Headquarters at Alliance Manchester Business School.
Associate Professor at the University of Bath, UK. Ecological Politics, Imaginaries, Just Transitions, Political Theory, Rhetorical Studies.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/sophia-hatzisavvidou
Political ecologist of consumption, circular economies, cities. Thinks about discards, care, and the commons. Can't drive. Recycling Class @MITPress'24
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546973/recycling-class/
Environmental Politics Doctoral Researcher
Sustainable Consumption Institute & Politics Dept, University of Manchester
Researching corporate environmental action, greenwashing, communications and non-state/private governance
Hallsworth Research Fellow @ University of Manchester | political economy | climate change | green industrial policy | green central banking.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james-jackson
Associate Professor in the 3S Research Group at University of East Anglia, UK. Researching societal engagement with sustainability.
Anthropologist. Works at the University of Manchester. Studies people's lives with and alongside infrastructure, climate, energy, technology and data.
Professor of Environmental Politics & Director of the ESRC-funded JUST Centre, University of Manchester. Intersectional justice, just transition, ecofeminism. She/her/immigrant 🇨🇦🇬🇧
The UK's home for community research and social innovation. Also powering the Institute for Community Studies.
www.youngfoundation.org
Also on X and Threads
BISA working group in our second year.
Find our upcoming events and blog series via our website https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/ecp
Based at the University of Basel, the Sustainability Research Group explores pathways to sustainable development through research, teaching, and public dialogue on governance and socio-economic transformations.
#Sustainability
#SustainableDevelopment
Professor and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Business at King's College London. Doing research on corporate strategies for net zero, tensions in corporate sustainability, and business model innovation. Running in the hills whenever I can.
Environmental social scientist from University of Leeds
sustainable consumption, community, energy poverty, social relations of retrofit, just transitions, inclusion
