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 …
The UK government celebrated Christmas by donning Santa suits and throwing a £1 billion subsidy down the fuming smoke stacks of the UK's biggest power companies, writes Alan Simpson - a massive payment at the expense of UK energy users, for doing what they should be doing anyway. Have a Brave New Year!
… lights-cut.jpg The UK government celebrated Christmas by donning Santa suits and throwing … survived. What now remains of your 'spirit of Christmas'? For me, the answer is always the … it lit up. This has always been my 'spirit of Christmas'. Societies need their lights to be …
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 …
The notion that nuclear is cheaper outside the UK is a myth, writes David Toke. Yes, it looks more expensive here - but only because new stations like Hinkley C have to compete in an electricity marketplace, making it harder to conceal the true costs like we used to.
… bit like a child who first hears that Father Christmas does not, after all, exist. … and in this case a belief that if only Father Christmas is nationalised, then it will still …
Green MEP Keith Taylor represents the people of 'prosperous' south-east England in Europe. But as he found visiting food banks in Portsmouth, not everyone shares in the prosperity around them.
… by. [3] Indeed there’s little doubt that this Christmas will see more parents seeking help … of Charles Dickens ward in Portsmouth this Christmas will be harder than any other in … the Green Party of England and Wales. This Christmas will see more parents seeking help …
The UK's insistence on opening up the UK to fracking is symptomatic of a deeper malaise, writes Paul Mobbs. Of course we need a change of government, but more than that, we need a deeper, enduring change of the nation's governance if we are ever to effect the transition to sustainable policies on energy and environment. It's time for the UK to become truly democratic.
… knows that three times a year - before Christmas, Easter and the Summer holidays - … and policy proposals are announced. This Christmas though the Government went far, far …
The UK's Coalition Government told us it wanted to hand control of the NHS to patients. In truth, writes Caroline Lucas MP, it is attacking NHS democracy on every side.
… attacking NHS democracy on every side. Before Christmas, I spent an evening as an observer …
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 …
The Bovine TB conference in London last week was disrupted by media reporting of scientific conflict over badger culling studies, writes ecologist Tom Langton. But the real story is the collapse of confidence in the Randomised Badger Culling Trials, used to justify the mass killing of badgers; and the emergence of reliable new TB tests. The simple solution: stop the cull, and spend the money on gamma interferon cattle TB testing.
… so much of his time. Views expressed in his Christmas report , that politicians only take …
With its choice of Hinkley Point C - a £100 billion nuclear boondoggle - its enthusiastic support for expensive and environmentally harmful fracking, and its relentless attack on renewable energy, the UK government's energy policy is both morally and economically bankrupt, write Peter Strachan & Alex Russell. It must urgently reconsider this folly and embrace the renewable energy transition.
… by claiming that Brits would be cooking their Christmas turkeys using nuclear power …
Cuts to feed-in tariffs and hostility to large-scale farms have undermined the UK's solar energy sector. But changes are under way in the heart of government. Could 2014 be the UK's 'year of the sun'?
… us enormously to get this support just before Christmas." First series of big solar energy …
Nearly a year ago at the height of the UK floods, tragedy struck an ordinary family in Surrey as toxic gas from a nearby landfill site killed a 7-year old boy, Zane. Now the authorities appear determined to exculpate the source of the poison - an old landfill site - even as they prepare for a massive increase in hazardous waste from fracking.
… Talk Fracking gave the Government some Christmas reading in the form of scientific …
Last week David Cameron backed down over his plans to bring back fox hunting by 'fatally amending' the Hunting Act, writes Dominic Dyer. The way he spun it, it was all about SNP interference in English law, but the real problem was opposition within the Conservative Party, which increasingly sees blood sports as a barbaric relic that alienates voters of all persuasions.
… to a free vote in the House of Commons before Christmas. Things aren't what they used to be …
Jenny Jones - now Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb - is the Green Party's first peer to be appointed. A week after her 'introduction' she shares her first impressions ...
… elected chamber - I'll be a turkey voting for Christmas. I'm glad too that a Green Party …
We know who the likely runners and riders are in the race to be the new Tory leader and prime minister - but where do the prospective candidates stand on fracking and other environmental issues? Joe Sandler Clarke finds them all decidedly un-green.
… the vote on fracking in national parks before Christmas. A loyal cabinet member, May's …
EDF has already moved heavy earth moving gear onto the Hinkley C nuclear power station construction site, writes Doug Parr - but that doesn't mean it's a done deal. On the contrary, a host of intractable problems are coming home to roost, and the increasingly troubled project is looking shakier than ever.
… who promised that Hinkley would be cooking Christmas turkeys in 2017, when now even under …
The apparent conspiracy by the UK government and its agencies to conceal the real cause of death of 7-year old Zane Gbangbola may go right up to Prime Minister David Cameron, writes Paul Mobbs. He was chair of the COBRA emergency committee at the time when it appears to have held back the truth that he was killed by cyanide from the toxic landfill site his home was built over.
… be submitted to his investigation before Christmas. That is likely to require action by …
Last week the consortium holding a £22bn contract to clean up the Sellafield nuclear site was sacked, writes David Lowry. But this is just the end of a long and scandalous tale of corporate profit at taxpayers' expense, and the active collusion of ministers and senior officials in fighting off Parliamentary scrutiny.
… request spills the beans Just before Christmas in 2008, the NDA delivered to my …
One of the world's biggest energy companies has been caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal, writes Bill McKibben. Way back in the 1980s ExxonMobil knew of the 'potentially catastrophic' and 'irreversible' effects of increasing fossil fuel consumption, but chose to cover up the findings, spread misinformation on climate change, and go for high carbon energy sources.
… and other front groups. In fact, just before Christmas, Inside Climate News published some …