What is Slow Travel and Why Should I Try It?
If you haven’t heard the term ‘slow travel’ before then now is the time to find out what it is all about. It is a trend that is growing very popular across the world right now and it involves holidays and traveling plans that have…
Sustainable Diet for the Future
Climate change is at the forefront of everyone’s minds right now – and it’s no secret that our current methods of food production and our food consumption habits are contributing to this. Some smart people at the think-tank Eat based in Norway, in conjunction with…
Upgrade your home with Upcycling
Perhaps you’ve moved into a new home, or you’re just looking for something to freshen up your interior for the new year. Whatever the reason, there’s always an excitement that comes with getting a new piece of furniture. What if you could make your own,…
Restaurant Review: Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets is a community meeting place, and a café and restaurant, which boasts not only a great menu but also a space for curated events, such as poetry and literary nights, open mic nights, and special music events. They’ve had their doors open…
In Review: Komodo Clothing
Komodo, a clothing company based in North London, have been producing affordable and eco-friendly and sustainable clothing for over 30 years. Their supply chain has been established with numerous fair trade policies in mind, from the growers of their raw product right up to the…
Sustainable Fashion: Barocco Jewellery
When sustainable fashion is brought up as a topic, it’s not usually the jewellery which will make you consider how sustainable it is. However with mining being such a polluting commercial activity, it pays for a company to research better ways of producing beautiful things…
Making Your Cosmetics More Sustainable with Refillables
Cosmetics and skincare don’t come in large sizes, strictly speaking. You use a little, it comes in a 50-150ml bottle, and then you need to replace it. These bottles are almost always made of plastic, and every new purchase leads to another one appearing and…
Meat Alternatives for a Sustainable Future
Ask anyone if they’re considering a vegetarian diet for sustainability reasons and they’d probably look at you like you have two heads. Truth be told, it’s not on most people’s radar. With initiatives like “meatless Monday”, people trying “vegan for a week”, and the popularity…
A Look at Bareburger – sustainable fast food
We all love fast food – it’s tasty, quick, and usually quite cheap. But one thing we may not have considered is the impact our fast food choices have on the environment, and what the supply chain may be. Is the food from a safe…
Staycation for a Sustainable Break
Going on a break is important – if we don’t stop to take a breather every now and again, we’ll get stressed out and won’t feel like we can work at our full potential. However, then you end up with another headache – airfare is…
Sustainable Restaurant – Mixt Greens
First appearing in San Francisco in 2005, Mixt Greens is an eco-gourmet restaurant which offers diners a salad which they can pick and choose to their own liking, and have it put together right in front of them. It has a number of options for…
Making The Switch to Sustainable Clothing
If you’re interested in sustainability, then you probably know that fashion is the second-most polluting industry after oil. Given that we all need to wear clothes, sometimes its hard to think of a way to reduce your impact from what you buy. But the truth…
Electronics Sustainability
Electronics as quintessential part of the so-called “Digital Age”, are part and parcel of our world and how we interact with it. Although we’ve compressed convenience into the palm of our hand in the form of phones and tablets, electronics cover a far broader scope…
Review: The Good On You ethical shopping app
Good on You is an app focused on ethical fashion that provides information, news, offers and news, all about sustainable and ethical fashion choices. Their aim is to connect customers who want to make better choices when buying clothes – whether it’s to have a…
In Focus: UK and Sustainability
Given the political situation of the UK over the past 2 years since the Brexit vote, it is interesting to see how the UK fares in terms of sustainability. While it has hit the target on some factors, in many other ways the UK has…
Tackling Single-Use Plastics in the EU
Plastics are a major pollutant. For a start, they don’t biodegrade in the same way as natural materials, and even when they do, it only breaks down into microplastics which have now been tested for and found present throughout the food chain, in table salt,…
Pret-a-Manger: A Business That Runs on Sustainability
Whether a business takes into account sustainability and being eco-friendly are two important issues for many consumers today who may consider it when making their purchases. As a result, many companies will make token gestures towards being sustainable such as removing straws but not doing…
Sustainable Makeup: Ere Perez
Ere Perez is an Australian cosmetics company that creates sustainable makeup using natural ingredients and sustainable packaging, which helps to incorporate a more sustainable lifestyle into your beauty regimen. The brand is owned by its namesake and creator, Ere Perez, who grew up in Mexico…
edie Live 2019
Edie is a long-running conference named after and organised by the magazine Edie, and functions as a resource for energy-sustainability, and resource efficiency professionals. Edie.net is an online resource and magazine that focuses on news in sustainability relating to business and technology interests. This year,…
We Recommend: Buycott
Shopping is difficult when you have strict convictions about what you consider important in a product. Perhaps you worry that it will have been tainted by slavery in the supply chain, or you are adamant that you want to avoid anything that might have been…
Sustainability and Millennials: Why it’s a priority
Who are millennials You’ve almost certainly heard of “Baby Boomers”, and you might have even heard of “Gen X”. With Millenials being the buzzword for everyone right now, and with them having ideals drastically different from their predecessors, it’s good to specify who you mean….
Sustainable Fashion: Patagonia
Leading the way in the world of sustainable fashion, Patagonia have been producing sustainable outdoor clothing since 1973. Their ethical practises extend from the source of the fibre used in the production of fabric, to the sale and re-sale of their clothing when it reaches…
Secondhand Shopping
Secondhand shopping is a catchall term for buying things which are secondhand, pre-loved, or which aren’t new from a supply chain – it’s a more sustainable way of shopping for items in a way that reduces your personal impact on environment when you get new…
Our Recommendation: GoodGuide
Buying products when you’re trying to be sustainable can be confusing when you’re not sure which products are the best. One of the websites that aims to guide consumers to better choices is GoodGuide. They state “We believe educated consumers make better choices and help…
Modern Slavery – 2018: An Overview
Although most people will aim to be sustainable consumers, and to purchase our products and services ethically, it can still be difficult to ensure that every step of the supply chain is as ethical as possible. Slavery is a dirty word – and with good…
Zero Waste Lifestyle
People are, on the whole, wasteful – it’s considered part and parcel of modern life. To even think of reducing your impact on the environment by being mindful of your consumption and waste is a little daunting, and where do you begin? Reduce, reuse, recycle…
Coffee Industry Sustainability 2018
Coffee has been drunk for many hundreds of years, and has been cultivated for all of this time. The process of obtaining coffee was only expanded as more people drank it, and sustainability wasn’t a factor in its production for a long time. However with…