BBC Blast Fashion
Blast Fashion is creative online community for young people with advice on how to customise clothes and accessories, including DIY fashion guides, advice from designers and a showcase where you can upload your creations.
BBC Bloom
BBC Bloom gives you the lowdown on how to be carbon conscious. Discover how clothing care, low temperature washing and the way you dry your clothes can have an impact.
Conflict Neutral
Check out Conflict Neutral from the Ethical Diamond Ring Company for more information on avoiding conflict stones in your jewllery. There's also more background to this controversial issue in this article from ethicalweddings.com.
Environmental Justice Foundation
The EJF is an organisation that campaigns for organic and fair trade cotton and against child labour. They also have a full range of ethical designer T-shirts.
The Ethical Fashion Forum
The Ethical Fashion Forum (EFF) is a network of designers and businesses that aim to design, source and manufacture clothing in a responsible way.
The Fairtrade Foundation
The Fairtrade Foundation aims to ensure farmers are paid a fair price for their produce, that workers enjoy safe and healthy working conditions and that the environment is protected too.
Pesticide Action Network UK
The Pesticide Action Network promotes organic and fair alternatives to the pesticides used in cotton production. Its slogan is Wear Organic.
The Soil Association
The Soil Association promotes organic farming for its health and environmental benefits. Look out for its symbol on products in the supermarket, it guarantees products are organic.
The International Fair Trade Association
IFAT campaigns to promote fair trade around the globe, by building a market for fair trade products. It organises conferences to help local producers share knowledge and cooperate.
British Association of Fair Trade Shops
The British Association for Fair Trade Shops (BAFTS) is a network of independent shops across the UK, selling a range of handicrafts, fashion, food, jewellery, toys – all responsibly produced.
Ethical Trading Initiative
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) aims to ensure the working conditions of people who produce goods for the UK meet international labour standards.
Made By
The Dutch organisation Made-By helps international fashion brands clean up their production process. The blue Made-By button on clothes shows they’ve been made in a responsible way.
Waste Online
All the stats you’ll ever need on rubbish, landfill and recycling at Waste Online. You can also find local places to recycle your waste.
Oxfam
Oxfam fights poverty and campaigns to make trade fair. It’s a member of the Ethical Trading Initiative.
Traid
Traid stands for Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development. The charity collects clothes in recycling banks and sells them in its high street shops to raise funds for overseas projects.
Make your Mark in fashion
Make Your Mark in Fashion is a competition for young people aged 14 to 30 to design an innovative and sustainable range of clothes for a leading eco-fashion house. The finalists’ work can be viewed online in the run-up to a catwalk show at London Fashion Week in September '08.
London College of Fashion Centre for Sustainable Fashion
The London College of Fashion Centre for Sustainable Fashion was founded in 2008. It's purpose is to create better lives through a sustainable fashion economy.
Vinspired
Find out how to customise your clothes and raise money for charity at Vinspired. Ben De Lisi and Vinspired are launching the Favours fashion collection and you can get involved too by creating new clothes from old.
youthxchange.net
This guidebook, produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and by the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) covers everything you need to know about being an ethical consumer. Find out more on youthxchange.net.
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