- Food waste
How to store food and cut waste
Choosing how to store your leftovers can actually preserve food for longer and cut down on waste, as Becky Marshall finds out.
By Becky Marshall - 27th February 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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- Plastic
- Food waste
Waste strategy is a failed Christmas present
The new Waste Resources Strategy paints a fantasy circular economy while avoiding the real issue of how we can use less plastic, writes environment journalist Lucy Siegle
By Lucy Siegle - 19th December 2018
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- Food waste
Surplus food brings community together
A volunteer-run group in Exeter takes surplus fruit and veg and serves a free three-course veggie meal to socially-isolated or elderly people in the city.
By Nina Pullman - 6th December 2018
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- Food waste
- Eating & drinking
- Plastic
Five steps to an ethical Christmas
Christmas is that time of year when it’s tempting to throw all ethical intentions to the wind in place of decadent decorations, thoughtful gifts for loved ones and any kind of food that takes your…
By Nina Pullman - 3rd December 2018
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- Politics
- Food waste
Gove unveils new £15m fund for food waste
A new £15 million government fund will help tackle food waste and redistribute the equivalent of 250 million meals to those in need, environment minister Michael Gove has
By Nina Pullman - 3rd October 2018
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- Food waste
- Eating & drinking
Five seasonal recipes for August
As the heat of the summer lingers, make the most of the seasonal veg and enjoying some Mediterranean inspired meals.
By Emily Muddeman - 16th August 2018
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- Food waste
- Farming
Feeding food surplus to pigs safely: a win for farmers and the environment?
Pigs have the potential to turn a massive food waste problem into a tasty solution. However, feeding food waste to pigs is currently banned in the UK, after illegal practices by a farmer in the…
By Karen Luyckx - 20th July 2018
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- Food waste
- News from the farm
Not snow much waste….
It’s a new week and today there’s little resemblance to the winter wonderlands our organic farms became last week, just the odd muddy, slushy white spots dotted around the fields, and a welcome…
By Emily Muddeman - 5th March 2018
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Veg Hacks: Radish pickle
Learn how to pickle radishes in this week's Veg Hack with chef James Evans.
By James Evans - 3rd July 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Ethical business
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Making measurement count
As previously, transport is our biggest sin, and the final delivery to the door is the most carbon costly – so we are converting over 70 per cent of our vans to electric by 2023.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 1st July 2020
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- Climate change
- Politics
Mass virtual lobby calls for ‘green recovery’
Singer Ellie Goulding has helped amplify people attempting to host 'virtual cuppas' with their MP to quiz them on support for green post-Covid plans as part of mass online lobby.
By Nina Pullman - 30th June 2020
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- Nature
- Mental health
Nature connection in the kitchen
I found beauty in the soft leaves of the celery, intrigue in the antennae of the kohlrabi, pleasure in the veins of the Cavolo Nero, which mirrored maps of the courses of rivers, writes Lucy Jones.
By Lucy Jones - 29th June 2020
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- Eating & drinking
Five recipes to celebrate the Veg New Year
Each season brings its excitement and pleasures in the kitchen; spring starts with scarcity, then follows with abundance and variety, and what we call the 'Veg New Year'.
By Kirsty Hale - 29th June 2020
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- Farming
- Local sourcing
- Ethical business
Fibres of the future
Covid-19 has sent wool prices plummeting and the sheep industry into crisis – but a fledgling movement that connects farmers with local weavers offers hope.
By Hugh Thomas - 29th June 2020
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