by SCI Admin | Feb 4, 2019 | All posts, Collective action and social movements
Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website Two protest movements erupted in the UK and France on November 17th, with apparently opposite logics. Mat Paterson argues that both movements result from the the way carbon pricing has been both...
by SCI Admin | Jan 9, 2019 | All posts, Veganism and 'more-than-human' relations
Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website Bangers and mash, toad in the hole, shepherd’s pie, Lancashire hotpot – meat is tightly interwoven with British culture and dining. Particularly now at Christmas, it might seem self-evident that...
by SCI Admin | Nov 26, 2018 | All posts, Events
Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website In early October the SCI co-sponsored a conference to mark the retirement of Professor Mark Harvey. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the SCI. He spent a part of his career at the University...
by SCI Admin | Jul 3, 2018 | All posts, Sustainability and social inequality
Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website Leicester, May 2018: textile workers are paid half the minimum wage, their actual worked hours halved to fiddle the figures. The clothes they produce are sold by a new breed of on-line, “fast...
by SCI Admin | May 14, 2018 | All posts, Veganism and 'more-than-human' relations
Sustainable Consumption Institute blog Blog archive Visit our website France recently passed an amendment to its Agriculture Bill, prohibiting any product that is largely based on non-animal ingredients from being labelled like a traditional animal product. Malte Rödl...
