Held at Bristol Harbourside and celebrating its 10th anniversary, Europe's largest organic festival is a feast of food, drink and fabric that doesn't cost the earth
… Organic food comes of age at Bristol's Organic Food Festival Eifion Rees | 26th … Ethical Living Green Living Food And Drink Organic Soil Association Phil Haughton …
Multiple benefits of organic farming should not be ignored in light of new study.
… Organic climate impact report is ‘naïve’ … Marianne Brooker | 21st December 2018 News Organic Food And Farming Riverford Organics Climate Change … riverford_guy_watson.jpg Multiple benefits of organic farming should not be ignored in light …
A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year
… Gas Biochar Livestock Cow Deforestation Water Organic Soil Association DEFRA Emissions … practices towards the adoption of a more organic approach. ‘Organic farming plays a key role in soil …
Organic baby food company Ella's Kitchen is already big in the UK and Scandinavia, and now aiming to crack the US. Co-founder Alison Lindley discusses the difficulties of keeping it green during a period of meteoric growth
… Paul Lindley Baby Children Food Banana Organic ek-logo.jpg Organic baby food company Ella's Kitchen is … their teeth into: healthy, nutritious and organic. By packaging it in fun, …
First global analysis of world’s most abundant creatures reveals more animals live in the far north than the tropics.
The 'hidden world beneath our feet' Marianne Brooker | 24th July 2019 News Crowther Lab Nematodes Biodiversity soybean_cyst_nematode_and_egg_sem.jpg First global analysis of world’s most abundant …
From Darina Allen's mountain picnics to Mark Boyle's moneyless meditations and Craig Sams decorating with fungi, 11 environment-minded luminaries tell us what they'll be doing this festive season
… farmer, and live in the middle of a 100-acre organic farm, where all our veg will come … old. On my Christmas wish-list is anything organic, fair trade, handmade or secondhand. I … a tree. My ideal way to relax is to eat fine organic, local, seasonal field-grown food with …
From Darina Allen's mountain picnics, to Mark Boyle's moneyless meditations and Craig Sams decorating with fungi, 11 environment-minded luminaries tell us what they'll be doing this festive season
… farmer, and live in the middle of a 100-acre organic farm, where all our veg will come … old. On my Christmas wish-list is anything organic, fair trade, handmade or secondhand. I … a tree. My ideal way to relax is to eat fine organic, local, seasonal field-grown food with …
PHOTO GALLERY: A pocket-sized book highlights some of the super-sized problems associated with the way we feed ourselves
… is free READ MORE... GREEN LIVING Organic food comes of age at Bristol's Organic Food Festival Held at Bristol … its 10th anniversary, Europe's largest organic festival is a feast of food, drink and …
Kicking off a new series of 'how to...' we show you the most satisfying way to 'green up' your lovemaking between the sheets. Now relax, lie back and think of the Ecologist…
… the LED lightbulbs and slipped into something organic. Your partner is giving you the look … it over, who wouldn’t want their lube to be organic? That is, unless petroleum … of its very own Behind the Label . But for organic, fair trade and not tested on animals …
Continued production, trade and use of fracked hydrocarbons ‘torpedoes our global efforts to tackle climate change and violates basic human rights’.
Support for worldwide fracking ban Marianne Brooker | 5th March 2020 News Change Makers Fracking Energy Activist Un EU fracking-699657_960_720.jpg Continued production, trade and use of fracked …
The tale of the homemade wormery in a second-floor-flat continues... The worms are thriving, multiplying in numbers. Just don't ask about the flies...
… the worms are happy and multiplying, the organic kitchen waste (not too much citrus or … exercise is probably doing me good! The organic waste is becoming compacted under its …
Thousands of shoppers across the world will take action against single-use plastics in supermarkets this Saturday. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
… mentality, the commonplace wrapping of ‘organic’ vegetables in plastic when non-organic are not, as well as “over-packaging” … work fine, as is seen in many green grocers, organic and smaller independent stores. The …
Cosmetics company Lush is a zero-packaging pioneer on the high street. In the first of our new 'Green business' series, founder Mark Constantine discusses gourmet consumerism, dream factories and why his ethical creation is a work in progress
… to ‘making effective products from fresh organic fruit and vegetables, the finest … GREEN LIVING Can I trust my 'natural' or 'organic' body cream? What does it take for a … haircare products to be truly 'natural' or 'organic'? Laura Sevier sorts fact from fiction …
A compost pile in a second-floor flat may not be a practical solution to dealing with your food waste, but if you don't have a garden, a homemade wormery might just be the ticket
… one thing. They'll eat practically anything organic, including fruit and veg, coffee … of the process of decay, however, making the organic matter more edible, so don't be … Price: £16.98; www.beecycle.co.uk Original Organics Original Wormery This family-sized …
It could reduce the pressure on native forests but the rapid expansion in bamboo plantations is in danger of making it the latest in a long line of tarnished 'wonder crops'
… – but its cohesive properties work on an organic level too. Growing out of a tangle of …
It's one of the healthiest, most versatile 'weeds' around. Asian countries have enjoyed the benefits for centuries. So where is the market for homegrown UK seaweed?
… miles of coastline, it's a vast, healthy, organic and as yet untapped food resource. … the seaweed is grown, as is the case with organic fish. Offshore farming might be viable … cuisine which can contain high levels of inorganic arsenic, it has offered no official …
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate the coming together of marriage and environmentalism. Do you, reader, take this, the Ecologist, to be your guide to environmentally friendly weddings...
… White Gold and Cotton make clear. Choose organic cotton if you’re having a dress made, … that your flowers have been grown locally, organically and sustainably, why not use …
Consumers have been left confused by the latest study on the links between mobile phone use and brain cancer. Eifion Rees reports on the struggle to find answers
Do mobile phones really cause cancer? Eifion Rees | 7th June 2011 News Mobile Phones Health Cancer mobilephonegirl2.jpg Even if we're uncertain about their effects, we know enough to take precautions …
Half of world’s people lack access to air quality data, hampering efforts to tackle one of biggest public health threats
Unequal access to air quality information Marianne Brooker | 9th July 2020 News Science And Systems Systems Air Quality Pollution Air pollution Half of world’s people lack access to air quality data, …
The Environmental Justice Foundation has documented gross human rights violations and serious illegal fishing offences aboard the Taiwanese Fuh Sheng 11. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
Violent abuse and illegal fishing aboard Taiwanese vessel Marianne Brooker | 17th September 2018 News Fishing Taiwan Deep Water Fishing Shark Finning Human Rights Abuses …
Living near a busy road stunts children’s lung growth by up to 14 percent, and increases lung cancer risk by 10 percent.
Air pollution stunts lung growth Marianne Brooker | 2nd December 2019 News Pollution Traffic Cities Smog Lunch Cancer Air Pollution Breathing air pollution from traffic .jpg Living near a busy road …
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic
Extent of agricultural land-grab revealed on new website Eifion Rees | 22nd June 2009 News Investigations Science And Technology Food And Farming Crops Korea Madagascar Hectare Philippines Qatar …