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Tuna league table 2008: Sainsbury's
Your help in getting supermarkets to take incandescent bulbs off their shelves is vital. In the UK, around 80 per cent of domestic bulbs sold are wasteful, incandescent bulbs. If all retailers in the UK only stocked energy efficient light bulbs, the UK could save over five million tonnes of CO2 emissions a year – more than the CO2 emissions of the 26 lowest countries combined! |
Sustainable seafood breakthough! Sainsbury's move to line-caught fresh cod and haddock
Posted by jossc on 13 April 2007.

In a big boost to our 'sustainable seafood' campaign Sainsbury's, the largest fishmonger in the UK, has announced that from the end of April it will sell only line-caught fresh cod and haddock to its 16 million customers.
Read more »Supermarkets league table 2006: Sainsbury - 3rd place
The overhaul of Sainsbury's seafood policies in both the wild-caught and aquaculture (farmed fish) sectors is one of the more exciting changes within the industry in the past year. Sainsbury's has set clear goals for moving towards 100 per cent sustainable seafood procurement, and has spent time and money supporting sustainability initiatives and promoting better alternatives to customers.
GM on trial
Posted by bex on 31 August 2005.
Thirteen Greenpeace volunteers go on trial at Cardiff Crown Court on 1 September facing a charge of 'public nuisance'. This charge relates to their part in temporarily stopping a shipment of GM feed off the coast of South Wales last June.
Read more »GM ruling win

GM activists boarding the MV Etoile
Thirteen Greenpeace volunteers who stopped a shipment of genetically modified (GM) crops from entering the UK have had a charge dropped against them.
The charges alleged that our volunteers endangered the safety of the MV Etoile when they stopped it docking at Bristol to unload a cargo of GM crops in June. However, South Wales Magistrates Court decided that there was not enough evidence for a crown jury to consider the charge.




