Setting aside her fondness for meaty delicacies, Mitra Wicks decided to follow the celebrity vegan trend. Buoyed along by the gastronomic pleasures of London's finest vegan restaurants, she declares the change a success - in terms of health, wellbeing, beauty ... and reducing the exploitation of animals in industrial farming.
… Virtuous veganism for health, beauty and pleasure Mitra Wicks | 15th … a success - in terms of health, wellbeing, beauty ... and reducing the exploitation of … What kebab? Mitra Wicks is an organic beauty and lifestyle writer. She blogs at …
The Ecologist's Green Living Editor finds answers to your ethical dilemmas. This week she’s looking at eco-labels
… September 2011 Ethical Living Labels Food Beauty Ecocert Soil Association RSPCA Food And … is to bring in a universal standard for beauty products, which would make it easier … follows. The four main certifying bodies for beauty are ECOCERT, the Soil Association, …
When it comes to farming, size matters. Currently, subsidies - received under the EU Common Agricultural Policy - are available only to farmers with more than five hectares of eligible land. Now, a new report by the charity People Need Nature published to coincide with the Oxford Real Farming Conferene (which starts today) claims that this "excludes the producers it should be supporting." KATHRYN HINDESS reports
"Small really is beautiful", claims new report on England's farming Kathryn Hindess | 4th January 2016 News Food Farming Agribuisness Nature people need nature.jpg When it comes to farming, size …
It's a hard life being an organic farmer, writes Alicia Miller - and specially when it comes to engaging with a bureaucracy that's trying to 'green' our agriculture. Should small scale farmers change their farming practices to fit in with it? Or the other way round?
To support 'green' farming, officials must learn that small is beautiful Alicia Miller Sustainable Food Trust | 16th June 2015 Comment Farming Food UK EU Wales Organic Green Economy parsnips-cut.jpg …
From food to fun, we've got the skinny on how to make this year's festivities the greenest ever
… Plastic toys, cheap clothes and mass market beauty products are among the most popular … from local or recycled textiles and organic beauty products. Particularly good is the … for beautiful, eco-friendly fashion, beauty and home gifts. Friends of the Earth …
A once quiet voice, hard to distinguish against the grinding machine of intensive food production is now shouting above the noise. LAURA BRIGGS reports on the growing interest in grass as a feeding option
Let Them Eat Grass: The Livestock That is.... Laura Briggs | 18th July 2016 News Farming Food Livestock Grass-fed Industrial Farming Traditional Farming cows grass 1015.jpg A once quiet voice, hard …
The global cereal giant Kellogg has committed to sourcing palm oil that is deforestation-free. It will also ensure that carbon rich tropical peatlands are preserved.
… is used in everything from food and fuel to beauty products and cleaning agents. The …
If the roll call of scary ingredients has put you off conventional creams then antioxidants could be the alternative you’re looking for
… 22nd February 2012 Ethical Living Health And Beauty Antioxidants Anti-ageing Skincare Food … Tucked away in leafy Gloucestershire is a beauty brand with a ‘beyond organic’ … greenies GREEN LIVING The Ecologist A to Z of beauty goodies You’ve learned to avoid …
Forget what you’ve heard about sheep and male voice choirs, says Hannah Corr. There’s a whole lot more to Wales than that
… national parks, four areas of outstanding beauty and 746 miles of magnificent coastline. … set up in the 1950s to protect areas of beauty and natural heritage. 20 per cent of … Designated an area of outstanding natural beauty, the peninsula is only 16 miles long …
La Guajira, a dusty but spartanly beautiful region in Colombia's desert north is in the grips of a crisis. Climate change, desertification and water shortages have combined to create a perfect storm for the local rural community: a drought so severe some places did not feel a drop of rain for three years writes LAURA DIXON
WITNESS: Colombia's indigenous Wayuu suffer the effects of climate change, drought and rising food prices Laura Dixon - La Guajira Colombia | 17th October 2016 Comment Climate Change Drought Food …
Seaweed, carrot flower and locally caught fish were all on the menu during Kate Eshelby’s gastronomic tour of the Scillies
See weed and eat it: a foraging break on the Scilly Isles Kate Eshelby | 23rd February 2012 Ethical Living Foraging Travel Green Living Society Scilly Islands Cornwall UK England Beaches Seaside Food …
Eating wild plants and mushrooms is a pleasure we should all indulge in, believes open air gastronomist Humphrey Birley - and this new edition of 'Wild Food : a complete guide for foragers' is just what's needed to get us exploring woods, hedgerows, meadows and salt marshes in search of edible delicacies.
The gastronomy of wild food Humphrey Birley | 30th April 2014 Reviews Food Natural World UK Health wild-food-front-cover-cut.jpg Eating wild plants and mushrooms is a pleasure we should all indulge …
French photographer and environmental activist, Yann Arthus Bertrand, author of 'The Earth from the Air', sets out his hopes and fears for the future in this interview with Tadzio Mac Gregor - and explains why, despite all the problems that afflict the world, he has no space for pessimism.
… more importantly, on how the world's natural beauty seduced him. All this had a major … the human impact on earth. Behind all the beauty that I've managed to photograph in this …
Roadkill pheasant, quail and dumplings ... Annie Levy embarks on a culinary trip down memory lane to the raw sounds of Bonnie Prince Billy.
Roadkill pheasant and dumplings Annie Levy | 11th February 2014 Comment Food Birds roadkill-pheasant.png Roadkill pheasant, quail and dumplings ... Annie Levy embarks on a culinary trip down memory …
Ever thought of building a cob oven? Maybe you should, write Debbie Kingsley & Andrew Hubbard, for fossil fuel-free cooking that warms up every party, perfect for everything from pizza to roast vegetables or your (organic) Christmas turkey ...
… oven? Well, how about because it's a thing of beauty, made of natural materials with no need …
All over the world, small farmers are being forced off their land to make way for corporate agriculture, writes GRAIN - and it's justified by the need to 'feed the world'. But it's the small farmers that are the most productive, and the more their land is grabbed, the more global hunger increases. We must give them their land back!
Want to double world food production? Return the land to small farmers! GRAIN | 22nd November 2014 Comment Food Farming Corporations Land Grabs russia-small-farming-vmenkov-cut.jpg All over the …
High altitude regions near the equator are highly vulnerable to climate change - as are marginalised communities. Sian Cowman reports on how resilience strategies - old and new - are helping one Andean community to survive a changing climate.
Bolivia: harshening climate meets traditional knowledge Sian Cowman | 30th December 2013 Comment Bolivia Climate Change Farming Food Community lancaya-home.png High altitude regions near the equator …
Seeds are the gift of nature and past generations to us, and our gift to the future. Karl Grossman reviews 'Seedtime' - and finds that we must make that gift wholesome and fruitful - not a Pandora's box of genetically modified horrors.
Manipulating the seeds of life Karl Grossman | 4th March 2014 Reviews Food Farming GMOs Gm Food Corporations scott-chaskey-seedtime.png Seeds are the gift of nature and past generations to us, and …
Lord Krebs, self-appointed spokesman for industrial agriculture, used the Oxford Farming Conference to attack organic systems for causing more climate change - a claim as demonstrably false as it is ludicrous, writes Peter Melchett. But across the city, the upstart 'real farming' conference was showing the way to a cleaner, greener and healthier future.
… of diet-related ill health, and restoring beauty, colour, wildlife and human cultivators …
An ordinary arable field in Sussex is sprayed with pesticides 22 times over a single growing season. Dave Goulson wonders how the bees can survive this toxic onslaught - and exactly who benefits.
Revealed: the chemical blitz of pesticides in our fields Dave Goulson | 30th January 2014 Comment Food Farming Natural World Bees Pesticides crop-spray-england.png An ordinary arable field in Sussex …
Scotland's small-scale farmers have welcomed their government's decision to prevent the growing of GM crops, aimed at enhancing the country's 'clean, green status', among a coalition of green NGOs.
Crofters welcome Scotland's GMO ban The Ecologist | 10th August 2015 News Farming Food UK Scotland GMOs EU seed-potatoes-scotland-cut.jpg Scotland's small-scale farmers have welcomed their …
Maria Evrenos left her wallet at home for a week to discover that even an inexperienced urban forager can survive without money for a week by treasuring other people's trash.
… section. "Look here" , she points to another beauty spot on an otherwise ripe banana. "Like …