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Independent Hostels is a Best Buy Label company in our guide to ethical travel booking companies. We talked to them about the philosophy behind the company, challenges and the future. 

Thanks to the climate crisis, Alpine skiing is facing an uncertain future says Simon Birch, reporting from the French Alps.

Cars are responsible for about 10% of our emissions. Switching to electric vehicles is therefore a key action you can take to significantly cut your carbon.  Here, we provide a step-by-step guide to making the switch.

Travel accounts for around 25% of our individual emissions. Reducing the amount we fly and use our cars is therefore a great way to cut our footprint.  Here, we provide a roadmap to reducing road and air travel.

In this article, Rob Harrison looks at the climate impact of different forms of transport, what the transport hierarchy is, and what actions consumers, companies and governments need to take to create a more sustainable transport system.

Your unused (or under-used) car can help in the fight against the climate crisis, says Simon Birch, in his latest Inside View article. Also see our guide to ethical cars and electric cars.

Rob Harrison and Ruth Strange discuss the findings around transport from Closing the Climate Gap 2024: An annual report on progress towards sustainable consumer lifestyles in the UK.

New research has found that home rental company Airbnb is pouring money into ‘grassroots lobbying’ organisations which are subverting local democracy. We shine a light on Airbnb’s lobbying practices and outline some of the issues and negative impacts associated with their ‘Home Sharing’ or ‘Host’ Clubs. Also see our ethical guide to Travel…

Culture Unstained, a research, engagement and campaigning organisation, have revealed how major oil and gas companies have pushed to influence and sponsor the COP26 climate summit over the last year.

Colin Birch with a light-hearted guide to trying, and sometimes failing, to be ethical. This week Colin looks into the world of car insurance.

Jonathan Atkinson of Carbon Co-op peers into some of the complexities we face in the transition to low carbon homes.

Travel news and events in ethical transport. All the top highlights for May and June.

International companies have “enabled" and "profited from" illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine, according to the UN. 

Information on the actions of and actions against BP oil and gas company.

The Academics for Peace group has renewed calls for a boycott of academic institutions linked to the Turkish state.

Impact festival involves two days of cultural events created to inspire environmental and social change.

Brunei’s Sultan has announced that the country will not impose the death penalty for those convicted of having anal sex.

Later this year the annual Clever Green festival will launch in Brighton.

Anna Hughes, the leader of the Flight Free 2020 campaign asks if you could pledge not to fly alongside 100,000 others in 2020.

Simon Birch laments the passing of a pioneering organisation.