It’s versatile, environmentally friendly and has a 5,000-year-old pedigree in the fashion world. Laura Sevier can’t understand why it’s taken so long for hemp to hit the shops
… Hemp on the high street Laura Sevier | 21st January 2009 Ethical Living Hemp Clothing Fashion Green Lifestyle Fashion … can’t understand why it’s taken so long for hemp to hit the shops Not so long ago, while …
Hemp, flax and rapeseed - not a sexy sounding trio compared to olive oil's Mediterranean aura - but storecupboard essentials if you want homegrown oil
… Ethical Living Food And Farming Olive Oil Hemp Cooking main-flaxfield-pic.jpg A field of linseed at Flax Farm in West Sussex Hemp, flax and rapeseed - not a sexy sounding … UK but with flax sourced from the Ukraine. Hemp oil With its reputation as a wonderplant …
Bright, bold and branded with a logo... It’s time to wear your ethics on your eco t-shirt. By Laura Sevier
… cotton and other sustainable fibres – bamboo, hemp and recycled polyester – and dyed with … are made from recycled plastic bottle fibre, hemp, bamboo, or organic cotton. A biologist … cotton t-shirt, £30 www.ejfoundation.org The Hemp Trading Company (THTC ) THTC have been …
… they can ‘hire and fire’ more easily. H emp Hemp as a sustainable ecotextile fabric has a … use. In the UK, around 2,000 hectares of hemp have been grown every year since the … and fibre or recyclable car interiors. UK hemp clothes on the high street? Currently, …
A cleaner, greener, more ethical approach to outdoor gear, Finisterre swept into UK shops on a surfing brainwave. Laura Sevier meets the team behind the eco-active clothing company
… 40 per cent vegetable foam that’s wrapped in hemp cloth instead of fibreglass, and is set … balsa wood construction wrapped in organic hemp or cotton cloth. See www.oceangreen.org …
What do you get if you cross a shoe with a coconut? A bounty for the feet. Laura Sevier meets Sven Segal, eco shoe designer and founder of the Po-Zu range, who has found a novel use for waste coconut husks. . .
… unbleached or organically grown unbleached hemp (sourced from Ecolution in Romania); the …
Is it enough to trust your nose when it comes to decorating your baby's nursery? A new project tests toxin levels and provides tips on reducing harmful chemicals in your baby's room
… and non-toxic materials such as FSC wood, hemp and cotton. With wood make sure they use …
What does it take for a company producing skincare or haircare products to be truly 'natural' or 'organic'? Laura Sevier sorts fact from fiction in the health and beauty stakes
… ‘The cost of organic plant oils such as hemp and rosehip are typically 20 times more …
We humans have much to learn from our kissing cousins, the peaceful, empathic, playful, sensual and highly sexual Bonobos, writes Susan Block. Rather than play out the myth of ancestral 'killer apes', better follow the 'Bonobo Way', and extend our love to all living beings and Earth herself.
… getting on board the anti-nuke bandwagon. Hemp and gay marriage are being legalized in …