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Regenerative Rhetoric: From Buzzword to Basket

At this year’s New York Climate Week, agrifood corporations once again took to the stage to showcase their sustainability credentials. This time rallying around the term “regenerative agriculture.” As campaign advisor at the Changing Markets Foundation, Lily Roberts noted in The Grocer that the phrase has quickly become a catch‑all within the agrifood industry, serving as a convenient shield for climate action and diverting attention… Read More »Regenerative Rhetoric: From Buzzword to Basket

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A YEAR of Free Food Planners

Changing our approach to foodOne of the biggest changes we can make as individuals is changing what we eat. We think the easiest way to do this (after using our app to scan your products) is to buy produce that has been grown locally, which means it is ‘in-season’. Here are your free food plannersThey list all the in-season fruit, veg and herbs being grown… Read More »A YEAR of Free Food Planners

Green Business Journal - Made in the UK, Fact or Fiction?

Made in the UK – fact or fiction?

In light of the recent Boohoo mislabelling controversy, Josh Simpson, co-founder of sustainability rating app Impact Score, asks: can consumers be sure of anything anymore? Featured in Green Business Journal Issue 11, click on the full article below or head to page 12 of this link> The Green Business Journal is a quarterly release, written to highlight the latest and biggest green business and environmental… Read More »Made in the UK – fact or fiction?

SUSTAINABLE SHOPPERS – excerpt from ‘The Trends Shaping Shopping’

Source: The Trends Shaping Shopping This research was carried out by Opinium on behalf of American Express in July 2022, surveying a nationally representative sample of 2,000 UK adults. Respondents were asked a series of attitudinal and behavioural statements that related to the four different shopping profiles. They were allocated to a group if they selected over 50% of the qualifying statements for one (or… Read More »SUSTAINABLE SHOPPERS – excerpt from ‘The Trends Shaping Shopping’

Halloween eco meal for around a pound

Pumpkin, garlic & tomato soup With Hallowe’en just around the corner, here is a super simple way to make sure that all the goodness of your pumpkin doesn’t go to waste. All you need to do is whip up this tasty pumpkin soup! Where possible try to buy organic veg or veg that will go to waste – most supermarkets sell a wonky veg options.

Consumer Attitudes to sustainability

Sustainability survey – what you (UK shoppers) told us

Our community of more than 80,000 Impact Score Champions are passionate about sustainability. But because sustainability means different things to different types of people, it’s difficult for brands and retailers to create campaigns that hit the mark. This report details insights from our latest sustainability survey – it clarifies what is important to you, UK shoppers, right now. Read about what aspects of sustinability matter… Read More »Sustainability survey – what you (UK shoppers) told us

Does knowing the impact of food purchases help consumers live more sustainably?

In the UK, the average person has a carbon footprint of 12.7 tonnes CO2e per year, and 23% of this comes from their food purchases*. That’s more than their household and vehicle fuel emissions combined! This means the biggest difference we can all make is focussing on our food purchases. In Jan 2021, Norwegian online retailer ODA started providing their customers with the carbon footprint… Read More »Does knowing the impact of food purchases help consumers live more sustainably?

The Grocer article

We’re Featured in The Grocer ‘Meet The New Apps Swaying Consumer Food Choices’

Our consumer apps feature in this week’s The Grocer heralded as a “credible” solution to supporting sustainable consumer shopping choices: https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/technology-and-supply-chain/the-new-apps-swaying-consumer-food-choices/658935.article Happy reading! And if you want to find out more about our consumer product ratings offer for retailers, visit our Retail Page.

Leading Consumer Impact Apps – Impact Score® and Giki Badges – Unite to Accelerate Ethical Change in UK Retail Sector

Two of the UK’s leading consumer impact apps – Giki Badges and Impact Score®– are coming together in a deal that will create an unrivalled source of intelligence to help inform shoppers’ buying decisions.  Already, Impact Score® contains details of over 120,000 UK businesses, while Giki Badges scores over 280,000 FMCG products across a range of environmental, social and nutritional measures. Their combined database will… Read More »Leading Consumer Impact Apps – Impact Score® and Giki Badges – Unite to Accelerate Ethical Change in UK Retail Sector