The idea has yet to catch on in the UK but in Scandinavia, where the very first 'nature house' was built in the 1970s, the idea of surrounding your existing home with what is essentially a 'greenhouse' to create a living home is one that is catching on. PAUL MILES explores the eco benefits
… won an environmental prize from the Jönköping city authority. Greenhouse Living is now …
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
… is the most damaging way to reach the city. Interestingly, although Government …
Mix flour, water and yeast and you’ve got a tasty loaf of bread. But make your bread the industrial way and you’ll end up eating more than you bargained for.
… Melmerby; www.village-bakery.com Flour Power City Bakery; www.flourpowercity.com Hobbs House Bakery; …
Hazel Sillver gives her pick of the UK's 10 most gorgeous eco-gardens and garden events to stroll around this summer....
UK gardens you must visit in Summer 2013 Hazel Sillver | 5th July 2013 Ethical Living Green Living lavender.jpg Hazel Sillver gives her pick of the UK's 10 most gorgeous eco-gardens and garden events …
This extract from The Ultimate Guide to Bicycle Maintenance will help you identify the source of, and fix, nasty noises
The art of bike maintenance: trouble shooting squeaks and creaks Guy Andrews | 15th June 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Transport Bicycle Maintenance Mending Bike Repair Sustainable Travel …
You don't need a smallholding and a meadow to be a budding apiarist - a few sensible precautions will let you fight honeybee decline with a hive in your own backyard
How to be an urban beekeeper Theodora Tsentas | 27th April 2010 Activism Food And Farming Green Living Beekeeping Honey Bees Bees beekeeping.jpg You don't need a smallholding and a meadow to be a …
Relationships, like so many other aspects of modern life, are increasingly subject to the pressures of commercialisation. ‘Buy this and you’ll be happy’, suggests the marketing. And one recent product, both intimate and as impersonal as can be imagined, boasts particular success…
… What, after all, were the women in Sex in the City, the TV programme that launched the …
John Francis spent 17 years walking... in silence. His pilgrimage is testament to the fact that you don't have to speak to be heard and that the tools to combat global warming are in all our hands.
… The result was the intimacy and authenticity of the unspoken. Perhaps it was akin to … meet John halfway on his return from another city. ‘It was a gesture of friendship,’ he …
Fresh, convenient, versatile or overpriced leaves soaked in pesticides and produced by slave labour?
… Bagged salads Felicity Lawrence | 1st September 2004 News … and with the prospect of damage from bad publicity, no supermarket dares risk having E. coli … save money by not carrying the spare capacity that flexibility really demands. The …
Need an eco break? Hazel Sillver recommends hopping on a ferry and making your way to the Isle of Wight....
… a wood burning stove, but no or electricity or plumbing. * Isle of Wight Treehouse – … want to return from holiday to a low electricity bill and a guilt-free conscience, power …
Are you living the dream? Or walking zombie-like through the nightmare of modern consumerism? Laura Sevier explores the sanity of downshifting
… where it’s also known as ‘voluntary simplicity’ or ‘simple living’, downshifting was … (Souvenir Press, £7.99) Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly …
Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption…
… of things such as the carrying capacity of the Earth, the dynamics of ecosystems … taken to increase the growing of food in the city? If it’s growing where the people are, …