<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/49b262af-3182-4c8e-9d1c-f981435f5862/3FBB2AD5-7CEB-4378-8C2F-1E4C472C3B50/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uol-ssc103006.php" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uol-ssc103006.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.eurekalert.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uol-ssc103006.php"><H1 class="title">Shopping still costs the Earth</H1> <H2 class="subtitle"></H2> <P>There is still no such thing as a truly green consumer despite the increase in the range of green and 'ethical' products available, according to new Leeds-led research into the choices and trade-offs made by shoppers.</p> <P>The team found we are still tempted by bargains, with price most commonly traded off against a product's environmental performance. Also, shoppers find it easy to apply ethical values to more everyday purchases like food or clothing but struggle to reconcile the competing issues of brand, energy efficiency and desire to shop locally for more major items such as dishwashers.</p> <P>Earth and environment senior lecturer Dr William Young and colleagues from the Sheffield and Robert Gordon Universities carried out interviews, focus groups and a workshop to explore the decisions made by shoppers when buying everything from washing machines to light bulbs.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3FBB2AD5-7CEB-4378-8C2F-1E4C472C3B50/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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