Recent articles on some ethical/green heavyweights

Harriet Lamb - MD of the Fairtrade Foundation
Read the lastest article about Harriet on www.telegraph.co.uk on 6/2/08 - "Fairtrade - an Ethics Girl of our time" - hey we like the title! Harriet is starting to receive public recognition of the amazing work she has done over recent years to get more Fairtrade products into our shopping baskets. She was featured no 2 in the Observer Food Monthly top 40 eco foodies and we were lucky enough to have Harriet in the spotlight as our 1st interviewee to divulge her eco habits.

read Fairtrade - an Ethics Girl of our time / check out the Top 40 eco Foodies list / read Harriet's In the Spotlight inteview at Ethics Girls

Stuart Rose - MD of M&S

Stuart Rose announced his ground breaking Plan A for M&S last year. Plan A is an ambitious 5 year plan -

He takes time out to reflect on what has happened over the first year on of Plan A on The Times Online website

Meet Adair Turner - Britain's new climate change tsar

The Sunday 3rd February edition of the Observer included an interesting article by Nick Mathiason who interviewed Adair Turner.

"With a CV that includes oil giant BP, a long spell at management consultancy McKinsey, and, at 39, boss of the CBI, Turner will now tell the government whether it is on track to meet tough carbon dioxide reduction commitments and what it must do if, as likely, it falls short.

He's only been Britain's climate change tsar for four days, but already Daily Mail photographers are casing Adair Turner's second home in the country. 'They're taking pictures of the swimming pool,' says the 52-year-old peer darkly. "

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Jane Shepherdson, ex Top Shop, moves to Whistles & talks to NewsNight about ethical fashion

"It feels like people are addicted to shopping and consuming and having new things all the time. I think it has become really boring. Things are so accessible, you can look like a celebrity immediately and for a fiver."

And does she think people look good on fast fashion? "Not particularly, no."

But Shepherdson, who became chief executive of the Whistles womenswear chain last week, reckons things are about to change radically.

Ahead of the 2008 London Fashion Week, and in her first television interview since leaving Philip Green's empire, she told Newsnight: "Things go in cycles. I feel we are about to come to an end of a cycle and go somewhere different. I think people have become a bit bored with the idea of 'isn't it great, it is so cheap', I am hoping people will start to want to be a bit more individual again."

Between leaving Top and started as the new Chief Executive, Jane worked with ethical fashion brand People Tree and worked as an advisor to Oxfam.

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