Tue 9 February 2010 | 5:45pm - 7:30pm
Meet at: TOFWD - The Organic Food & Wine Deli 28 Degraves st.
Melbourne,
VIC
Take a supermarket tour will a difference and find out about how the products on your shopping list stack up for the planet. What are the issues that reflect the true cost of the products we buy? What are "best buys" for our health, our communities and our planet? How can you find the most sustainable purchase amongst the options available? As we walk the aisles, we'll explore practical ways to help you in making more ethical choices and lighten your impact. Presented by Nick Ray of the Ethical Consumer Group. Limited places of 6 people on each tour. Booking essential. No charge.
Ethical Consumer Group
The Ethical Consumer Group is a community-based network exploring what it means to live sustainably within a consumer culture. They produce an annual ethical buying guide - 'The Guide to Ethical Supermarket Shopping', run ‘Shopping with a Conscience’ workshops and supermarket tours, and hold monthly 'Meal & Movie' nights. Nick Ray believes it's a big world out there and it's easy to get lost in it unless we cultivate a sense of home, a connectedness to places and to those we share it with. Nick is passionate about giving people simple everyday tools to help in living more lightly. He loves his bike, chickens, wife and kids (not necessarily in that order). Nick also co-ordinates the Sustainable Living Foundation’s Directory platform and works at Green Collect, an inner city social firm that run a recycling collection service in Melbourne's CBD.