From food to fun, we've got the skinny on how to make this year's festivities the greenest ever
… The Ecologist guide to greening Christmas Ruth Styles | 1st November 2011 Ethical Living Christmas Eco Xmas Guide Food Gifts … annual spending and feasting frenzy that is Christmas. But the annual festive jamboree is …
Christmas dinner means only one thing for millions of us: turkey. But the intensively reared and genetically manipulated birds that most will consume this holiday season leave a nasty taste in the mouth
… Behind the Label: Christmas turkey Pat Thomas | 16th December … Ethical Living Green Living Behind The Label Christmas Turkey Factory Farm Vegetarian Meat … Red Tractor Quality British Turkey turkey.jpg Christmas dinner means only one thing for …
Naturally reared, free range turkeys are more flavoursome, says Irish chef Darina Allen. Here is her guide to cooking old-fashioned roast turkey with chestnut stuffing and bread sauce
… How to cook your Christmas turkey Darina Allen | 21st December … Free Range Darina Allen How To Cook Roast Christmas Turkey daylesford_turkey.jpg An … of farmers' wives rearing turkeys for the Christmas table. They'd get a couple of dozen …
In a Behind the Brand special, Peter Salisbury assesses whether Bernard Matthews has cleaned up its act following undercover investigations revealing 'shocking' cruelty and the notorious avian flu H5N1 outbreak
… What's the real cost of Bernard Matthews Christmas turkey? Peter Salisbury | 20th … 2011 Ethical Living Bernard Matthews Turkey Christmas Animal Welfare RSPCA Behind The … Food And Farming holding.jpg Many of the Christmas birds we eat are intensively reared …
Pile of leftover turkey driving you crazy? Here's our guide to dealing with it the eco-friendly way
… With the stress built up during the run-up to Christmas, leftovers are the last thing you … the £275million spent on wasted food this Christmas will give you reason to take note. … Reheat For the ultimate snack, the ultimate Christmas sandwich is where it's at. Some like …
Storms, floods, tidal surges, a failed badger cull, GMO controversies ... then Owen Paterson, widely considered the worst Environment Secretary we have ever had, vanished. Lesley Docksey wonders - will he ever return?
… that we were in for a very wet winter . The Christmas floods - where was he? Nor was he visible over the Christmas period when storms on 23 December … 70,000 without power for the whole of the Christmas period. As storm after storm wheeled …
Stephen Pain's poem fears the momentum for tackling climate change could be lost in a white Christmas
… climate change could be lost in a white Christmas Dear Editor I suppose it must snow … smile at the beauty of what could be a snowy Christmas I suppose it is how we consume our …
Joanne has given up the conventional life of work, shop, drop and is now growing and scavenging her own food and living as simply as possible.
… ‘Waste’ sweet potato, home-grown onion and my Christmas gift of local rice is on the menu … bus ticket or local rice make my birthday and Christmas gifts more meaningful. Other special …
It's an unlikely alliance, but when one of the world's leading climate scientists and the world's biggest fossil fuel companies declare a common interest, it should draw attention
… Who would want to be a vampire squid at Christmas ? The Trillionth Tonne (some big, …
With mountainous regions under threat from global warming, is the winter sports business doing enough to protect the delicate eco-system in its care?
… difference. READ MORE... GREEN LIVING Top 10…Christmas markets Whether you're after an … Laggan has the lowdown on Europe's best Christmas markets GREEN LIVING Starved to …
When a Victorian tea party took over Heathrow's Terminal 1 earlier this year, it was a clear sign that environmental campaigning had taken a large step away from time-worn methods of protesting.
… change. Around 10,000 people marched before Christmas and it didn’t make a difference – we …
As Britain prepares for a tempestuous Christmas, Tim Radford reports that weather extremes in temperate countries may be the consequence of the melting of Arctic snow and ice.
… Change As Britain prepares for a tempestuous Christmas, Tim Radford reports that weather …
Climate change skeptics have seized on the tale of the 'global warming scientists' stranded in Antarctica by a summer freeze-up. But Stephan Lewandowsky says there is more to the story than meets the eye ...
… becoming lodged in Antarctica sea ice on Christmas Eve. Another type of picture - the …
Rising global temperatures are likely to double the frequency of the most severe El Niños - the periodic atmospheric disruptions which affect weather across the globe. Tim Radford reports
… in the equatorial Pacific, usually around Christmas-time. The phenomenon periodically …
'No deforestation' pledges by global food corporations are yielding results, writes William Laurance. But now the Indonesian and Malaysian governments are calling on them to abandon their promises - even as the region's rainforests go up in smoke, cleared for new oil palm plantations. The companies must hold firm to their commitments.
… the nation has looked like an over-lit Christmas tree. The fires have been so bad …
This chronicle of over two centuries of melting Alpine and polar ice, seen through the works of contemporary artists, is at its best both powerful and provocative, writes Martin Spray. But he wonders - is art really such an effective force for environmental protection?
… is best kept, we may suggest, to calendars, Christmas cards, and the coffee-table. And …
A leading member of the climate change-skeptic Global Warming Policy Foundation has resigned from his post in the wake of a Greenpeace investigation that exposed its phoney 'peer review' process. But he insists: 'nothing going on here!'
… to you other than what was released before Christmas." ' I'm afraid Greenpeace has got …
Dan Box reports from a community in its death throes, as the Carteret islanders pack up their homes and prepare to become the world’s first climate change refugees
… see where high tides and storms over [last] Christmas tore across the land, poisoning the …
The government will announce voluntary standards today to regulate carbon off-setting programmes - the schemes by which environmentally friendly projects such as planting trees are undertaken to 'off-set' the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.
… government's proposals today. Shortly before Christmas carbon off-setting programmes were …
No one believed Big Tobacco could ever be snuffed out - until health warning stickers were made law. If the same principle of science, information and activism were applied to the aviation industry, argues Mark Anslow, the air we breathe could get cleaner yet
… industry is tobacco. No smoke without fire... Christmas 2002 can’t have held much cheer for …