Resources on Corporate Social Responsibility and responsible shopping:

• Doing the right thing – A podcast from Professor Jeremy Moon (Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at the University of Nottingham Business School).

A short list of solid reads for consumers wishing to gain a deeper understanding of their market.  These books have all come highly recommended from a variety of different sources.  As they have kept cropping up in diferent articles that I have read I have decided to gather them all here together as a mini reading list!

• The Good Shopping Guide: Your Guide to Shopping with a Clear Conscience (Shopping Guide)  – 700 consumer brands comparatively reviewed in detail by Friends of the Earth
• The Rough Guide to Ethical Shopping – examines the issues (eg ‘do boycotts work? Is buying local better? How fair is fair-trade? What about sweatshops, or organics?’) in a balanced way giving advantages and drawbacks.
• Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets – a thought provoking behind the scenes look at the way supermarkets operate
• Do the Right Things! – a guide to starting out down the ethically responsable road
• Life Stripped Bare: My Year Trying To Live Ethically – similarly, an accessible guide from the Guardian columnist Leo Hickman