Business ethics

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The following links are some useful corporate websites for social responsibility and business ethics (Business Management, Unit 3 and 4)

Ethical consumers:

Choose Cruelty Free - an organisation that lists companies that don't test their products on animals
Corporate Critic - lets you search a list of thousands of international (and some Australian) companies to see how socially responsible they are.
The Ethical Consumer Group - Australian site that has links to ethical purchasing information
A campaign set up by the World Wildlife Fund with the goal of helping young people learn how they can make a difference by buying differently.

Fairtrade links:

Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand has a great education kit that you can download from their site. Covering issues on World Trade, fairtrade certification, the coffee trade, the cocoa trade, sweatshops and avenues of empowerment.
The UK Fairtrade site also has some good resources.
Hooked is a not-for-profit organisation to network and facilitate student activism in support of fair trade.
Papapaa - free online teaching ideas, supporting resources and interactive tools

Dubble - the world's tastiest Fairtrade website, where they can sign up as Dubble Agents and start changing the world chunk by chunk!

Environmental consumers:

Green Line Organic - this online organic shop delivers organic fruit, vegies, meat, prepared meals, bread and other grocery items.
Green pages eco directory - an excellent news feed, linking to all Australian environmental stories as they break. It also has podcasts, polls, finance and links to most local green businesses.
Treehugger - eco products, a magazine, a forum and a source of green tips
Greenfoot - One of the best Australian eco blogs, produced by Sydney greenie Trina Tune.
Swapstyle - For $20, you can join the largest designer swap shop on the web and trade your own dry-cleaned items.
BANG Consortium (Building a New Generation) - an eco business that imports ethically produced, environmentally friendly bags from Bangledesh
GreenPower – GreenPower is a national accreditation program that sets environmental and reporting standards for renewable electricity products offered by energy suppliers to households and businesses across Australia.
Virgin Blue Carbon Offsets - minimising the environmental impact through a range of activities under their environmental management program. Customers can offset the greenhouse gas emissions related to each flight they take.

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