Blogposts tagged 'Supermarkets'

Is it about time fish-eaters were more adventurous? Sainsbury’s think so.

Posted by Willie - 13 June 2011 at 1:47pm - 4 Comments
Jamie Oliver and the 'Unusual Suspects' on offer at Sainsbury's
All rights reserved. Credit: © Sainsburys
Jamie Oliver and the 'Unusual Suspects' on offer at Sainsbury's

In Africa, safari-bound tourists are usually keen to bag ‘The Big five' - species which once people wanted to shoot with bullets, but are now ones we want to shoot with cameras. However, we're so keen to ‘bag’ these species, that tourists often overlook the other amazing wildlife all around them.

Article tagged as: consumerism, fishing, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, jamie oliver, richard benyon, sainsburys, supermarkets, sustainable fishing, waitrose

Sales for 'sustainable' seafood soar, but is the problem shifting elsewhere?

Posted by jamie - 18 January 2011 at 4:28pm - 2 Comments

It's been a good week for seafood sales. The Guardian reports that supermarkets have been doing brisk business in "sustainable seafood", particularly those featured in the various Big Fish Fight shows on Channel 4.

Article tagged as: big fish fight, bycatch, discards, oceans, supermarkets, sustainable seafood, tinned tuna, tuna

What's lurking in your tuna sandwich?

Posted by Willie - 25 May 2010 at 3:38pm - 0 Comments

Another tin of tuna, because we know you can't get enough of these pictures

The old saying about a can of worms, is based on the idea that once you open said can, it's impossible to get the worms back in and close it again. Who knew that was true of cans of tuna too?

But fresh from our update on some of the international branded laggards yesterday, comes some news of more developments from some of the UK retailers.

Article tagged as: john west, oceans, princes, supermarkets, tinned tuna, tuna

Tinned tuna's hidden catch

Publication date:  13 August, 2008

The UK is the second highest consumer of tinned tuna in the world, consumming the equivalent of more than 700 million tins of tuna in 2006 alone.

Fishing practices used by the global tuna industry are contributing to the sharp decline of populations of sea turtles, sharks, rays and other marine animals. Marketing campaigns attempt to make tuna fishing look like a quaint cottage industry, but the truth is that the tuna trade is all about big business.

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Article tagged as: skipjack, supermarkets, sustainable seafood, tuna, yellowfin

ASDA and Morrisons make a move on light bulbs

Posted by jamie - 26 July 2007 at 4:30pm - 10 Comments

We're beginning to see the first positive results from the light bulb retailers league table we published nearly two weeks ago. Both ASDA and Morrisons have just announced they will improve their game plan and phase out those power-crazy incandescents by the end of 2010, which moves them a couple of places up the league table, leapfrogging several other retailers.

Article tagged as: ASDA, climate change, energy efficiency, league table, light bulbs, morrisons, retailers, successes, supermarkets, woolworths

Woolworths makes no changes to light bulbs policy; campaigners not impressed

Posted by jamie - 19 July 2007 at 12:05pm - 6 Comments

A Greenpeace volunteer offers free CFL light bulbs in a Southampton branch of WoolworthsI was just about to write a piece slating Woolworths (as, after all the fuss we caused on Saturday, we still hadn't heard from them) when I got a call from Laura, one of our campaigners, to say she had a letter from them explaining what they're going to do about energy-guzzling light bulbs. I'm looking at it now and I'm sorry, but I'm still going to slate them.

It's from CEO Trevor Bish-Jones who begins by not asking for us not to stage in-store protests in future but to communicate directly with himself. So he'll be pleased about all the emails he's been getting from you (if you haven't emailed him, do it now, or you can call your local branch of Woolies and speak to the manager).

He goes on to use some well-worn arguments which I thought it would be useful to air here. Take it away, Trevor.

Article tagged as: climate change, light bulbs, retailers, supermarkets, woolworths

"Wind of change" hits seafood industry

Posted by Cat - 18 July 2007 at 10:12am - 2 Comments

At last some good news for crisis stricken cod

At last some good news for crisis stricken cod

The success of our sustainable seafood campaign means that many UK supermarkets now source most of their cod from Icelandic waters - which are the healthiest when compared to the battered state of other European stocks (in the North, Baltic and Barents seas, for example), but also a region in which fish numbers are declining. This decline is now having a great influence on Iceland's approach to managing its cod stocks.

Article tagged as: cod, iceland, oceans, overfishing, successes, supermarkets

Woolworths won't stop selling power crazy light bulbs, so we've cleared the shelves for them

Posted by jamie - 14 July 2007 at 9:20am - 8 Comments

A Greenpeace volunteer locked on to baskets of inefficient light bulbs

It's going to be a busy day at branches of Woolworths across the UK today as the Greenpeace Light Brigade pay them a visit to ask why they're still selling old-fashioned, power crazy light bulbs. Woolworths came bottom of our new league table, ranking light bulb retailers according to their commitments to phase out inefficient bulbs, so our volunteers have decided to take matters into their own hands.

Article tagged as: climate change, direct actions, energy, league table, light bulbs, retailers, supermarkets, videos, woolworths

Let's hear it for consumer pressure

Posted by jossc - 27 June 2007 at 11:39am - 0 Comments

Our campaign against toxic e-waste in computers and electronic equipment is starting to show results, with many of the biggest names in the business tripping over themselves in the rush not to be left on the bottom rung of our Green Electronics Guide.

Article tagged as: green electronics guide, greenmyapple, oceans, supermarkets, sustainable seafood, toxics

Make the switch: our challenge to retailers

Posted by bex - 3 May 2007 at 9:42am - 2 Comments

Compact Fluorescent lamp (CFL)

These two bulbs might look pretty similar but, beneath the surface, there are some important differences.

The bulb on the left uses five times less energy than the one on the right. It lasts up to 12 times longer. It can save UK consumers around £1.2 billion in electricity bills per year. It’s available for less than a pound from several major retailers.

 Incandescent bulb
Article tagged as: bulbs, CFLs, climate change, energy efficiency, incandescents, supermarkets
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