- The big interview
- Packaging
- Food waste
Zero hero
Before plastic-free and zero-waste were a thing, Bea Johnson was fitting her family’s annual waste into a single jar. Liz Hollis meets the mother of a movement.
By Liz Hollis - 30th August 2019
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- Fashion & beauty
How to find sustainable swimwear
As more people are considering buying ‘less and better’ with clothes as well as food, what should you consider when it comes to buying summer holiday swimwear?
By Becky Marshall - 22nd August 2019
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- Plastic
- Environment & ethics
The real reason why McDonald’s straws matter
The only thing being recycled this summer is a story about how rubbish eco straws are, but why? By Lucy Siegle.
By Lucy Siegle - 9th August 2019
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- Cartoon
- Plastic
Ellis: The final straw
Ellis wonders whether the news about McDonald's new paper straws not being recyclable might be missing an obvious solution.
By Ellis - 8th August 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 Marshall.
By Becky Marshall - 11th July 2019
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- Plastic
- Packaging
New plastic campaign takes off
Campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is calling for mass action to ask supermarkets to reduce plastic while MPs debate banning non-recyclable food packaging.
By Nina Pullman - 25th June 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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- Cartoon
- Plastic
Ellis: Bags of consumerism
Ellis on the irony of eco shopping bags and how it is consumerism itself, rather than individual solutions, that holds the key to real change.
By Ellis - 21st June 2019
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- Plastic
How to live plastic free
At the beginning of 2018, our family set a bullish goal to reduce our plastic use at home by 80 per cent. Here's how we did it, writes Sophie Tait.
By Sophie Tait - 28th March 2019
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Latest posts
- Eating & drinking
- Local sourcing
How relocating changed my food habits
When Zoe Wyeth moved from London to Devon, she learnt the true meaning of seasonality and found herself looking in cookbooks and hedges instead of on supermarket shelves.
By Zoe Wyeth - 18th September 2019
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- Climate change
Visualising the climate crisis
Changing the way we visualise the climate crisis is the aim of a powerful photography project telling stories in human, local, and emotional way.
By Nina Pullman - 18th September 2019
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- Climate change
- Politics
We are the wildfire
Young people around the world are cracking open the heart of the climate crisis, speaking of a deep longing for a future they thought they had but that is disappearing with each day, writes Naomi…
By Naomi Klein - 18th September 2019
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- Climate change
Let’s talk about climate
As she prepares for the next global strike, Anna Turns finds out how to talk to those who don’t want to know about the climate crisis.
By Anna Turns - 17th September 2019
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- Ethical business
Keeping it in the community
A new mustard brand in Norwich, the bakery regenerating a local economy and a community farm enterprise are all part of a growing wave of community-owned businesses.
By Angela Youngman - 12th September 2019
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- Climate change
- Farming
How archeology can help food security
Exploring the history of agricultural practices allows us to understand the successes and failures of numerous societies, over thousands of years, write archaeobotanists Kelly Reed and Philippa Ryan.
By Kelly Reed and Philippa Ryan - 12th September 2019
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