Buy locally

Buy locally produced (and preferably organic) products where possible and ask local shops and supermarkets to stock locally produced and organic products - check out our Real Food Guide for local shops in your area.

Buy ethically

Choose to spend your money at local, independent businesses rather than large multinationals. Visit our Ethical Shopping Guide website for information on ethical shopping in the Manchester area, or check out Ethical Consumer magazine or the Ethiscore website to find out which companies have the best social and environmental performance, and choose them over their less ethical competitors.

Invest ethically

If you have a pension scheme or ISA, find out where your money is being invested. Most providers have ethical funds you can invest in, which either avoid certain sectors (such as tobacco or oil companies) based on a set of ethical criteria, or work with companies to improve their ethical performance - check out the EIRIS website for more information.

(Certain actions taken from 'Go MAD!', published by The Ecologist)