The annual British Fashion Awards are due to take place on 4 December this year at the Royal Albert Hall. The British Fashion Council, Vivienne Westwood and London Mayor Sadiq Khan launched SWITCH to encourage the British fashion industry to go green. But has it had any effect? WENDYROSIE SCOTT investigates.
… Has fashion gone green - or is it still a wolf in … Wendyrosie Scott | 15th November 2017 News Fashion LFW Sustainable Ecological Ethical … Clothing London 405713.jpg The annual British Fashion Awards are due to take place on 4 …
In 2016 the UK imported £26 million worth of fur, showing that the industry has gone global. Only by exposing the level of cruelty and showing people what lies behind the fashion will change ever come about writes LAURA BRIGGS
… Exposing babarism in the name of ‘Fashion' Laura Briggs | 4th August 2017 Activism Fur Fashion Animal Ethics Cruelty Carnival … and showing people what lies behind the fashion will change ever come about writes …
Eithne Farry helps Matilda Lee relieve clothes closet boredom with some priceless 'no-sew sewing' tips
… 2006 Ethical Living Recycling Clothes Fashion Denim Jeans Sewing Recycling Green … style goddess, Eithne Farry, who's been re-fashioning her own clothes for many, many … anyone with a good eye for a bargain can be 'fashionable'. So what exactly was I getting …
The advancement in technology and recent UK government policy announcements both point towards the successful take over of the electric car, even where other energy innovations have failed. Dr Christian Jardine assesses the latest developments
… and transport are powered electrically. Fashionable cycles This has been the consensus … the ‘big energy solution’ seems to go through fashionable cycles. In the early 2000s, the …
At ReTuna in Sweden everything sold is recycled or reused or has been organically or sustainably produced. NATALIE BENNETT reports on the benifits of a more circular economy and what we can learn from the world's first recycling mall.
… with a mixture of secondhand and upcycled fashion. Economic boost Some is definitely on … with quirky slogans. And of course upcycled fashion, from the adventurously quirky to the …
We live in a throwaway society. Innovation in the tech industries mean ever more powerful products come to market. But the death of repair shops and a culture of reliance is not simply the result of shiny new things. Corporations, and capitalism itself, requires planned obsolesce, argues STEVEN GORELICK
… replaced old articles with new for reasons of fashion and up-to-dateness. They gave up old … don’t have the latest products or currently fashionable clothes, the riddle of matching … the garment industry, tellingly known as the “fashion” industry. Thanks to a constant …
There is no stop button......in the race for human re-engineering. Science will soon give some of us the tools to make ourselves cleverer and stronger. What will it mean for humanity?
… and she and her husband (yes, very old fashioned, they married) had some agonising …
The Vegan Society today launches its Plate up for the Planet to encourage people to abandon meat and dairy products, for their health, and for the health of the environment, reports LAURA BRIGGS.
… products from both their diet and their fashion choices, so leather and fur are …
How can we bridge the gap between ‘fast food' living and responsible consumption when mass production and a throw-away mindset still dominate the lifestyles of most people? LAURA BRIGGS has some thoughts...
… Producing healthy, sustainable food is a fashionable concept right now, with more …
In its purist form, drawing is marking down the junctions of observed lines. The Ecology Movement does the same thing - joining up the dots of our under-strain, but interlinked environment to create forceful arguments, writes Ecologist Arts Editor, GARY COOK
… to see why drawing is coming back into fashion. The Drawing Society is reflecting …
Theresa May's party made a commitment to delivering the lowest cost power in Europe. The Conservatives also promised utter impartiality in deciding between power generation technologies. So how can it now justify a pro-nuclear energy policy that could cost each household £12,600? OLIVER TICKELL investigates
… Tories' election manifesto - which some old-fashioned 'my word is my bond' types might … Tories' election manifesto - which some old-fashioned 'my word is my bond' types might …
The new Index of Sustainable Economic Growth shows there is a shift to strike a healthier balance between support for the economy, and care for essential social and environmental systems. But can it ever replace GDP as a measure of progress? JAMES CURRAN explores the idea
… expanding consumer choice; it's a rather old-fashioned measure of production, not welfare. …
The exuberance of childhood celebrated in books such as Just William is now frowned upon as inappropriate behaviour, resulting in more and more children being prescribed behavioural drugs. Rachel Ragg investigates
… allowing them to let off steam in traditional fashion by playing in parks and climbing … uncomfortable truth: giving your children old-fashioned, stress-free lives means in effect … and give your children the healthy, old-fashioned lifestyle. Enforced "choices" Even …
Scientists are praising the discovery of new species and rare dolphins in the Mekong region, but overfishing and dams loom to disrupt habitats writes NOSMOT GBADAMOSI in this special Ecologist report
… frame houses built on stilts in the Khmer fashion that overlook the river. A new road …
An editorial from November 1971, by the Ecologist founding editor, Edward Goldsmith, explains why the sanctity of life is a myth whilst profit reigns supreme
… we regard our ancestors with pity. Old fashioned and barbaric, they lived in an age …
In the first of his two-part WITNESS blog CONOR PURCELL joins the Irish marine scientists aboard the Celtic Explorer to learn more about how they are testing for ocean acidification
… monitoring using instruments and old fashioned sampling and analysis." Like a lot …
An editorial by editor Zac Goldsmith. Published in the 28 page exclusive <i>Ecologist</i> supplement that appeared in the <i>Independent</i> Information magazine on 27 May, 2006
… Is this because the environment has become ‘fashionable’? Perhaps. But if we have a new …
The UK’s largest nature conservation charity, the RSPB, has elected a new chairman, Kevin Cox, who wants to reverse the collapse in wildlife diversity. JACK ALEXANDER reports.
… have received this award. In true Dick Potts fashion, he would have seen this as not just …
Alanna Smith aka the UK blogger Ecowildchild will be going plastic-free from 1st June as part of the annual Marine Conservation Society (MSC) campaign to raise awareness of the devastating impact single-use plastics are having on the environment. This is her invitiation to YOU to join her in this endeavour...
… to the Ecologist about current issues in the fashion trade, and how to be more mindful when …
A 2001 study that showed that glyphosate caused cancer in mice was ignored by the EFSA after the unsubstantiated allegation of a former US-EPA official that the mice used in the study were suffering from a viral infection that might have given them cancer, writes Claire Robinson. The EFSA failed to properly investigate the allegation, which appears to originate in a document linked to Monsanto, maker of the world's top-selling herbicide, glyphosate-based Roundup.
… lymphomas, in a clearly dose-dependent fashion. Moreover, this statistically …
Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities write TERO MUSTONEN and HANNIBAL RHOADES. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way
… address ecological changes in a pre-emptive fashion. The Skolt Saami have already …
Ecologist Arts Editor, GARY COOK, meets a UK-based artist/musician whose unique 'soundscapes' capture the other worldly genus loci of the natural world - its sacred sites and hidden gems
… streets from Ireland and re-purposed old-fashioned council houses now dressed to …