It’s versatile, environmentally friendly and has a 5,000-year-old pedigree in the fashion world. Laura Sevier can’t understand why it’s taken so long for hemp to hit the shops
… Hemp on the high street Laura Sevier | 21st January 2009 Ethical Living Hemp Clothing Fashion Green Lifestyle Fashion … can’t understand why it’s taken so long for hemp to hit the shops Not so long ago, while …
Considering its estimated 25,000-plus uses – for producing food, fuel, medicine, paper, plastics and even dynamite – the most wasteful thing you could probably do with hemp is smoke it. Jake Bowers describes hemp’s potential to transform agriculture and the plant’s demonisation by huge and competing industrial interests
… Seeds of Hope Jake Bowers | 1st May 2003 News Hemp Agriculture Native Sovereignty Organic … wasteful thing you could probably do with hemp is smoke it. Jake Bowers describes hemp’s potential to transform agriculture and …
In 1980 The Ecologist published an iconic Special Edition' devoted to the multi-use 'wonder crop' hemp. 34 years on, Thomas Prade finds the case for industrial hemp is as strong as ever.
… Hemp - the energy and industrial crop of the … Thomas Prade | 5th January 2014 Comment Hemp Biofuels Biodiesel Farming Energy hemp-field.png In 1980 The Ecologist published …
Green Living Editor Ruth Styles answers your eco-lifestyle dilemmas. This week, we're talking textiles
… Ask the Ecologist: cotton, hemp and bamboo - which is the green choice? … 2011 Ethical Living Fabric Textiles Bamboo Hemp Cotton Silk Fashion Waste And Recycling … these is the most eco-friendly yarn: cotton, hemp or bamboo? Maeve Smith, Natural Wisdom …
The phony justification for the US's ban on hemp makes even less sense than it did before Colorado and Washington State legalized marijuana. Jill Richardson says its high time to legalize them both.
… Jill Richardson | 13th January 2014 Comment Hemp Marijuana Drugs Farming legalise-them.png … The phony justification for the US's ban on hemp makes even less sense than it did before … attempting to hide a small bag of marijuana. Hemp won't get you high But just before …
Hemp, flax and rapeseed - not a sexy sounding trio compared to olive oil's Mediterranean aura - but storecupboard essentials if you want homegrown oil
… Ethical Living Food And Farming Olive Oil Hemp Cooking main-flaxfield-pic.jpg A field of linseed at Flax Farm in West Sussex Hemp, flax and rapeseed - not a sexy sounding … UK but with flax sourced from the Ukraine. Hemp oil With its reputation as a wonderplant …
John-Paul Flintoff journeys into a world of sartorial bliss, kitting himself out in eco-friendly fabrics of the future
… Ethical Living Green Living Clothing Nettle Hemp Cotton Transition Stroud John-Paul … fibres. A number of them choose to talk up hemp. Speaking for myself, I must confess that when I first heard about using hemp for clothing I thought immediately that …
Stay safe with Hazel Sillver’s roundup of the best eco suncare...
… organic. Buy from: greenpeople.co.uk *Yaoh Hemp Sun Block SPF 15 or 30, £9.99 for 240ml … are the Yaoh sunscreens, made with organic hemp seed oil. Both the SPF15 and 30 sink into … They are odourless and made with nourishing hemp seed oil, which protects the skin from …
Bright, bold and branded with a logo... It’s time to wear your ethics on your eco t-shirt. By Laura Sevier
… cotton and other sustainable fibres – bamboo, hemp and recycled polyester – and dyed with … are made from recycled plastic bottle fibre, hemp, bamboo, or organic cotton. A biologist … cotton t-shirt, £30 www.ejfoundation.org The Hemp Trading Company (THTC ) THTC have been …
Wildlife charity Plantlife is reintroducing the red hemp-nettle.
… Emily Beament | 4th June 2019 News Red Hemp-nettle Regeneration Plantlife Change … charity Plantlife is reintroducing the red hemp-nettle. A rare flower which has almost … the best conditions for reintroducing it. Red hemp-nettle was once common in southern …
Beauty advice for the winter season: get enough sleep, eat well and never stray far from a good jar of organic skincream. From Neal's Yard to Weleda, here are the Ecologist's top ten picks...
… none of the stuff you don't. Raw Gaia Living hemp moisturiser (£13.75, 60ml). A little goes … from the use of cold-pressed cocoa butter, hemp and apricot oils. Raw Gaia's products are … chance to win one of three Raw Gaia living hemp moisturiser, click here. Neal's Yard …
Sandy Black offers a fascinating account of the fashion industry’s attempts to balance the conflicting demands of style-hungry consumers and the impact it has on the planet, says Ruth Styles
… 2011 Reviews Fashion Books Sustainability Hemp Cotton Reviews Society eco-chic.jpg Sandy … pros and cons and leaves nothing out. Even hemp comes in for gentle criticism thanks to … it usually produces. Happily, says Black, hemp fibres are becoming increasingly …
Green Living Editor Ruth Styles answers your eco-lifestyle dilemmas. This week, we've put leather under the microscope
… the microscope Hi Ruth, I read your piece on hemp versus bamboo and organic cotton, and I … GREEN LIVING Ask the Ecologist: cotton, hemp and bamboo - which is the green choice? …
First women, then men: now children and babies are the latest to join the conscious clothing revolution. Lisa Stephens rounds up five of the best eco-friendly kids clothing brands
… Fashion Children Kids Organic Bamboo Cotton Hemp Wool Green Baby Bamboo Baby holding.jpg … along the lines of wrapping them in a hemp sheet and leaving them barefoot. But walk … been ticked,' she adds, recommending wool and hemp clothing as top choices. Shoppers can …
… they can ‘hire and fire’ more easily. H emp Hemp as a sustainable ecotextile fabric has a … use. In the UK, around 2,000 hectares of hemp have been grown every year since the … and fibre or recyclable car interiors. UK hemp clothes on the high street? Currently, …
Sewing is activism, says John Paul Flintoff, as he takes us through the politics and pleasures of this long lost skill
… and knitting a pair of boxers. He grows hemp illegally to make it into fibre (read his … fabrics of the future GREEN LIVING Hemp on the high street It’s versatile, … can’t understand why it’s taken so long for hemp to hit the shops GREEN LIVING What's the …
Brexit is raising concerns about food supplies, from fresh food imports rotting in transit, to prices rocketing and more people going hungry more often.
… ingredients – including wheat, pea, mushroom, hemp and mycoproteins – could make this … already commercially grown in the UK. Good Hemp have proven that commercial UK hemp seed production is practicable. The new …
Not only are its own products Fairtrade and organic, beauty pioneer Dr Bronner’s is taking on big business to get to the truth about how organic their ranges really are
… Dr Bronner’s stand out. Their biodegradable, hemp and olive oil soaps are so good, even … to see more of. Dr Bronner’s 18-in-1 Pure Hemp Castile Soap, £4.99, and more, are …
The world lives under oil’s spell. Jeremy Smith reveals the extent to which the industry’s by-products have permeated our lives.
… Oil Oil Dependency Saudi Oil Iraq Plastic PVC Hemp Oil Alternatives Russia Oil Russia … side effects, was banned. That product was hemp – the oil of which can drive cars, create … nutritious substances known. (Oh, and growing hemp counterracts climate change, too.) …
Eco-label THTC has launched a new range of organic cotton t-shirts in association with the Soil Association, the Carbon Trust and the Fair Wear Foundation
… to using eco-friendly textiles such as hemp. Manufactured using renewable energy – in … see,’ says founder Gavin Lawson. ‘We promote hemp as a sustainable, clean alternative to …
The Blackspot Anticorporation was set up by media activists Adbusters to provide a shoe for consumers seeking an alternative to corporate brands like Nike. Blackspot’s latest design, the Unswoosher, has just been launched in the UK.
… Unswoosher is made from 100 per cent organic hemp. The sole is made from recovered car … court. Then, if this recycled-tyre, organic-hemp Unswoosher really takes off as a new kind …
It began as a student project: environmentally-friendly underwear with a message. But Green Knickers has taken off - to the delight of its founders. Matilda Lee reports
… fabrics – organic cotton, silk and hemp – to create sexy, comfortable knickers … Sarah says. Six other styles – four hemp/silk blends from China and two of organic …
Forget complex, high-end technologies – basic truths and natural, low-carbon materials hold the key to sustainable and truly energy-efficient homes, argues James Hulme
… uses the inner, woody core of the industrial hemp plant combined with a lime-based binder. Being cellulose, the hemp particles are a carbon sink and provide … (vapour-porous) matrix that renders the hemp fire- and vermin-proof, provides the …
Armed with a hand blender, a bucket, some wild plants and various kitchen cupboard ingredients you can give old clothes a new lease of life
… do (that could save money too) GREEN LIVING Hemp on the high street It’s versatile, … can’t understand why it’s taken so long for hemp to hit the shops GREEN LIVING How to …