Anna Turns

Anna Turns

Anna Turns is an environmental journalist specialising in sustainability, marine issues, food provenance and our connection to the natural world. She is a freelance features writer for Wicked Leeks, and contributes regularly to nationals such as Guardian, Positive News, Evening Standard, Coast, Reclaim, Resurgence and Telegraph Travel. Her first book, Go Toxic Free: easy and sustainable ways to reduce chemical pollution, is out in January 2022. 

Features

Cool selling: Does the answer to supermarket food waste lie in the fridge?

Anna Turns visits a unique supermarket in Denmark that connects excess heat from fridge freezers to local housing with huge reductions to energy emissions and food waste.

Energy Supermarkets Climate change
Features

What’s up with our rivers?

Water Community Farming
Opinion

To fly or not to fly?

Activism Climate change Environment and ethics
Features

World Cup: Can sport be sustainable?

Culture Activism Climate change Events
Opinion

A light bulb moment: Why the energy we don’t use holds the answer

Cost-of-living Climate change Net zero Renewable energy
Features

Premium pods: The real vanilla rainforests and how to save them

Climate change Biodiversity Farming
Bread
Features

Grains of change

Climate change Biodiversity Regenerative farming Ethical business Farming
Features

More than just a shell

Climate change Biodiversity Fish
Features

Putting sheep on the catwalk

Regenerative farming Ethical business Fashion and beauty Local sourcing Soil
Features

Confessions of a kitchen bin

Climate change Food waste
Features

Chemical reaction

Environment and ethics Health
Features

Home is where the factory is

Ethical business Fashion and beauty

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