Buddiz social network aims to bring together many socially aware sites and ethical services that deliver and trade ethically sound products and services. Buddiz would like you to help source companies, websites and services that offer services that genuinely care about their staff, where their products come from and how they are made, and how environmentally friendly they are. Below are a few sites and services known to be ethically driven or at least have a social conscience
www.richersounds.com
- cares deeply about its staff and is involved in supporting (via its SEO) many charities and needy organizations.
www.cynatech.co.uk
Cynatech Ltd is a web consultancy specialising in websites for organisations working on issues of sustainability, human rights and social enterprise. We also undertake more commercial work on occasion, including ecommerce, usually for local businesses. Our values are green and we aim to deliver quality, dynamic websites to help you get you message across. Because we share your values and care about what you're trying to achieve we can help you get the most out of your web presence.
www.budibank.com
For a list of ethical banks and socially aware lending services.
www.communitylandtrust.org.uk
Community Land Trusts - capturing land value for communities.
www.advocate.uk
Ethical graphic design service. Is Advocate an ethical business? Advocate is an accredited Social, Environmental & Ethical Company. Read my policies and practises at www.seecompanies.com
www.polden-puckham.org.uk
Summary of PPCF's areas of interest
Peace: Development of ways of resolving international and internal conflicts peacefully and of removing the causes of conflict.
Ecological issues: Work which tackles the underlying pressures and conditions leading towards global environmental breakdown; particularly initiatives which promote sustainable living.
Other areas: PPCF also supports human rights work, in particular where it is related to peace, ecological issues and policy changes related to women's issues. It has a long-standing link with the Society of Friends.
Underlying approach: In its work PPCF aims to support projects that change values and attitudes, that promote equity and social justice, and that develop radical alternatives to current economic and social structures. It gives particular consideration to small pioneering headquarters organisations.
www.ukfg.org.uk
What we do: The UK Food Group (UKFG) is the leading UK network for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on global food and agriculture issues. Our vision is a world in which hunger has been banished by food security. To this end our work seeks to promote sustainable and equitable food security policies; to balance corporate power by providing a public interest perspective to issues affecting global food security; and to strengthen the capacity of civil society to contribute effectively to international consultations on food security.
We represent more than 30 development, farming, consumer and environment organisations, drawn together by a common concern for food security. Our work is based on the simple principle of co-operation: together, members maximise their impact by pooling their expertise, sharing experiences, co-ordinating their work and operating collectively. Our diverse membership brings a dynamic, holistic perspective to food and agriculture issues: an understanding of food security related to a more just and equitable sharing of global resources; fairer terms of trade; a concern for production of food in a sustainable manner, avoiding chemical fertilisers and pesticides, loss of habitat and biodiversity and environmental or genetic pollution; the importance of safe, healthy and affordable food; and a food industry which is effectively regulated and publicly accountable.
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