- Fashion & beauty
How to find sustainable swimwear
As more people are considering buying ‘less and better’ with clothes, what should you consider when it comes to buying summer holiday swimwear?
By Becky Blench - 12th August 2020
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- Ethical business
- Fashion & beauty
- Cartoon
Climate of Crisis: Politics of fashion
A renewed culture of make-do-and-mend prompted by Covid-19 can help us reject the fast fashion industry and its exploitive supply chain, writes Lucy Siegle.
By Lucy Siegle - 14th April 2020
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- Fashion & beauty
- Ethical business
- Food waste
New jeans to be made from waste bananas
Jeans manufacturer Hiut Denim has launched a limited-edition pair of jeans made from bananas as part of its search for more sustainable denim.
By Nina Pullman - 19th February 2020
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- Ethical business
- Plastic
- Fashion & beauty
Ethical Christmas presents unwrapped
From plastic-free wins, to gifts for a slower, more sustainable lifestyle – welcome to the Wicked Leeks ethical Christmas present guide.
By Becky Blench - 28th November 2019
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- Environment & ethics
- Fashion & beauty
Generation influence
Sustainability influencer and Instagram star Zanna van Dijk on climate change, why she has notifications switched off and watching Youtube birth stories.
By Nina Pullman - 4th September 2019
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- Fashion & beauty
- Packaging
- Plastic
Why beauty should be next to offer refill
It's not just about keep cups and reusable water bottles – we need a refill culture that expands across all sectors, writes Becky Blench.
By Becky Blench - 11th July 2019
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- Plastic
- Fashion & beauty
How to have a plastic-free festival
From cups to glitter to tents, attitudes towards a disposable society are changing. Read our top tips for a plastic-free festival.
By Nina Pullman - 24th June 2019
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- Fashion & beauty
Five tips for sustainable fashion
If expressing yourself through what you wear is what you do, but you like the idea of environmental responsibility even more, here are a few tips for doing both.
By Nicola Bradley - 3rd April 2019
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- Fashion & beauty
- Food waste
Decluttering your home
Keep the items you actually use, rather than those others say you need, writes author and influencer Madeleine Olivia in this excerpt from her new book.
By Madeleine Olivia - 6th January 2019
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- Biodiversity
- Environment & ethics
Campaigners gear up to protect nature
The National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts have both issued new calls to protect and restore nature via conservation efforts and designated ‘wild belt’ areas.
By Nina Pullman - 18th September 2020
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- Animal welfare
- Ethical business
- Organics
Sirloin, rib-eye or retired?
Meet the farmer selling meat from retired organic dairy cows to apply the ethical values of organic to end of life and pioneer an alternative to the short life-cycle dairy industry.
By Anna Turns - 18th September 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
For the love of figs
To celebrate peak Spanish fig season, grower José Maria Agusti gives us a snapshot of how this unique fruit is grown and picked on his farm near Barcelona.
By Becky Blench - 18th September 2020
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- Ethical business
- Climate change
- Politics
Oatly faces backlash over investor choice
Sustainable oat milk brand Oatly is facing criticism and delistings over its choice of investment from Blackstone, a private equity firm with alleged links to deforestation and donations to the Trump…
By Nina Pullman - 15th September 2020
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- News from the farm
An uncomfortable truth
Recently we suffered the most devastating soil loss that I have seen in over 50 years of farming.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 10th September 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Eat more veg
Know your autumn squash varieties
Marvellously bright and beautifully varied veg that herald the start of autumn - get to know the different squash varieties and how to use them.
By Wicked Leeks - 9th September 2020
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