Revision of Ethical Business Directory for London, Ontario from March 20, 2008 - 3:30pm

London needs an online, user contributed ethical business directory. This book page is a place to list ethical businesses. All users can edit this page or add child pages to contribute to this directory. More info about book pages.

Guidelines draft

These guidelines are just something I've thrown up. If you think they need to be changed, edit this page and change them. You might also want to add a comment telling others the reason for your changes.

In order for an ethical business directory to work we're going to need a definition of ethical. Here's something to start with:

owned by the workers, unionized and/or fair compensation (e.g. living wage) for workers
sells products made by workers who are also treated and compensated fairly
is environmentally sustainable
sells local
gives back to the community
accessible to all

Organizing the directory

For now, adding new business to this book page is probably fine. We could add a child page for every business, but that would probably get tough to navigate. What makes the most sense would be to have child pages for different kinds of business. Perhaps one for restaurants, one for clothing etc.

If you want to start a sub-category in this directory, just click on the add child page link.

Directory entry template

Here is a sample entry that can be copy and pasted to make a new entry that can then be edited. This template uses Heading 4 (<H4>) for the business name and Heading 5 (<H5>) for Description, Phone, Address etc. Headings 4 and 5 are in the formats drop-down menu in the editing toolbars.

Feel free to change this template up too.

Sample Business

Description

Sample Business delivers bean burritos on weekends in the late evening. The deliveries are made by bike, and all of the burritos are made at home with local, organic and fair trade ingrediants. Churros available on the first weekend of every month and all long weekends.

Phone

519-555-1024

Address

386 Dundas St. N6B 1V7

Website

http://londoncommons.net

Email

sample@example.com

EMPOWERMENT

Description

Activist meeting space and various other resources for organizers, reading library and infoshop. Open Sun-Thurs 7pm to 10pm or by appointment. Not accessible.