Britain's favourite tipple faces big challenges over coming decades, writes Ann-Marie Brouder. A new report sets out the challenges and proposes sustainable solutions to keep the 'cup that cheers' on the nation's tables.
… Tea - a 'hero crop' for our times? Ann-Marie … Comment Food Farming Forests Corporations tea-plantation-watering.png Britain's … the 'cup that cheers' on the nation's tables. Tea is big business: three billion cups of it …
Mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest are at risk from tea plantations that would obliterate the adjacent Kafuga Forest, a vital buffer zone for local people, writes Richard Sadler. Deprived of foods, herbs, medicines and clean water from the forest, human pressure on the gorillas would inevitably increase, and expose them to potentially lethal diseases.
… Uganda: Save Kafuga Forest and gorillas from tea plantations Richard Sadler | 27th January … Bwindi Impenetrable Forest are at risk from tea plantations that would obliterate the … forest for farming. A group of more than 250 tea growers, backed by district government …
India's tea capital, Assam, has been hit by devastating floods for the second time in three years, writes Sneha Krishnan. But the government has failed to address key environmental issues like deforestation and soil conservation, or involve local communities in developing solutions. So ever more fertile land is lost to erosion, and millions of the country's poorest people suffer.
… Forests morigaon-dist-300612-cut.jpg India's tea capital, Assam, has been hit by … and poor working conditions on local tea plantations, while armed conflicts between … even more unstable. Perfect conditions for tea - and flooding Assam is best known for its …
Essential oils and plant extracts can zap zits without causing lasting damage to your skin or the planet
… use a gentle plant product on your skin, like tea tree oil, it’s antiseptic and it also … Atkinson says. Witch hazel, thyme, calendula, tea tree and lavender have natural antiseptic … ‘A face wash can be made by making a strong tea or infusion from either dried or fresh …
Want to give up sugar while still indulging your sweet tooth? Mark Briggs rounds up 10 natural alternatives
… in the form of spoonfuls added to your tea or coffee, or the industrial amounts … higher. Americans consume, on average, 22 teaspoon of sugar a day - double the … you use less of it. You can add it to your tea if you’re so inclined and works …
From upping your antioxidant intake to raising your yoga game, we round up 10 easy ways to detox – no dodgy pills or extreme diets involved
… linked to cancer and heart disease. Green tea is rich in antioxidants, as are … go to: www.abelandcole.co.uk Drink dandelion tea Drinking a couple of cups of dandelion tea, widely available from health-food shops, …
Fragmentation is one of the biggest threats that our wild habitats face today. But new research can help mitigate its effects and revive degraded landscapes.
… in Tamil Nadu, India. An undulating plateau, Valparai has over forty rainforest … (that make up a mere 4.5 percent of the plateau) embedded in plantations of tea (51 percent) and shade coffee (11 …
Whether it’s raspberry leaf tea or a spot of stretching, pregnancy massage specialist Holly Jeffery suggests some all-natural ways to keep labour pain at bay
… Whether it’s raspberry leaf tea or a spot of stretching, pregnancy massage … and prepare for labour and will help prevent tearing. Talk Discuss your beliefs and … to breathe in labour can be frustrating. Instead, if your birth partner holds you by the …
Whether it’s tiredness, stress or winter skin, Green Living Editor Ruth Styles has some super speedy suggestions – and no chemicals involved
… NHS , it’s one to approach with caution. Instead, swap stimulants such as coffee and tobacco for organic chamomile tea and try doing yoga breathing exercises … a long haul solution, try a tummy flattening tea fortified with bloat-beating herbs such as …
Whether you’re foraging for ingredients or scouring the shelves of your local health food store, DIY beauty products are as good for the planet as they are for your skin
… your face. Make it as if you were making a tea: it extracts the active ingredients from … the skin retain moisture and if you make a tea, (pick the leaves, crush them, put them in a teapot with boiling water) and rinse your face …
Tucked away underneath the King’s Road store is the Lush spa, where, as Ruth Styles discovered, you’ll find a soothingly green approach to beauty treatments
… looked like a cross between a West Country tea-room and a Cath Kidston boutique. Complete … grandmother to appear and offer me a cup of tea. Seated at the table, Anna went through my … added dry ice, which produced a fragrant steam that snaked along the couch and through …
You’ve learned to avoid parabens and sulphates but what should you be using instead? The Ecologist takes a closer look at the natural beauty ingredients that can make a positive difference to your skin
… and sulphates but what should you be using instead? The Ecologist takes a closer look at the … in skin-conditioners and fragrance. T is for tea tree A powerful natural antiseptic, tea tree oil is used to combat acne and purify …
Greece might be in dire financial straights but for the country’s best-known natural beauty brand, things have never been better. Ruth Styles caught up with Lena Korres to find out why
… glycol, ethanolamines, GM or triclosan, and steam-powered heating in the company’s Athens … Tree Growers of Arcadia to name a few. We teach our partners organic farming and … they avoid specific substances when instead they are using several others that can be …
Matilda Lee meets the Estée Lauder of natural make-up, Terre d’Oc’s Valerie Roubaud, to find out why natural cosmetics are ready to take on the conventional kind
… ranging from mineral make-up to herbal teas. Ochre has a long history in France. … far from the mainstream beauty market. Instead of experimenting with high-tech … an ingredient was sourced, I don’t buy it. My team and I are travelling all the time to …
After Gezi Park, another battle for one of Istanbul's increasingly rare green spaces is raging, writes Nick Ashdown - and this time it's on the city's Asian side. Demonstrators are holding a 24-hour vigil on the edge of an 'illegal' construction site at Validebag Grove - despite having been repeatedly detained and attacked by police.
… spaces left in Istanbul. They're handing out tea and snacks from under their makeshift … stay of execution, police attacked them with teargas. "They're like an army" , … neighbourhood, the Municipality wants to tear out trees and build more housing and …
Turkey's Gezi Park protestors are finding common cause with Kurdish communities, writes Rosa Wild. Both are suffering from Erdogan's annihilation of land, forests, parks and cities in pursuit of economic growth. A new eco-democratic resistance is taking root.
… One small child stokes a fire where tea is constantly brewing, leads the dances … its heritage of resistance, and turn it instead into a commodity for wealthy urban Kurds. … peace redraws the fault lines of society: instead of pitting Kurd against Turk, it pits …
With synthetic and chemical free formulas, and a colour range to rival Monet, modern mineral make-up is skin and planet friendly. Thea Byrgesen rounds up the best
… director of Origins Global Plant Medicine team. But you don’t have to go to the big … on organic orange oil and anti-oxidant white tea to moisturise your lips. It’s a lip gloss …
Coffee may be grown all around the tropics, writes Fiona Hesselden, but it originates in just one place: the 'coffee rainforests' of the Ethiopian highlands. We depend on the wild plants for new genes and varieties, yet the forests are falling fast to the advance of farmers. To preserve the forests and all their biodiversity, the original people of the forest must receive their just rewards.
… investor interest in commercial coffee and tea plantations, has seen agricultural land …
The plight of Kenya's Sengwer people shows that carbon offsets generated by 'sustainable' forest management are empowering a corporate recolonisation of the South backed by the World Bank against its own guidelines, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Indigenous forest peoples are at risk of genocide while corporations let rip.
… are also inhabited by many thousands of tea-planters, loggers, and squatters. … from Raiply" had been ferrying high-value teak timber from Mount Elgon forest. "And I … carbon value found in standing forests. Instead, the World Bank Carbon Fund's approach to …
The human family must come together now to stop Ebola in West Africa or risk a global pandemic that could potentially kill billions, writes Glen Barry. And that will mean solving, with equity and justice, the disease's root causes: rainforest loss, poverty, war and overpopulation.
… anti-intellectual bias of the GOP and the Tea Party in particular is partially … EcoInternet . Support EcoInternet : www.climateark.org/shared/donate/ . Action: Demand More …
High on petrochemicals and low on efficacy, it’s time to swap your Vaseline for something a little greener. Ruth Styles puts the planet-pleasing alternatives to the test
… oil – the aromatic ingredient in Earl Grey tea. 100 per cent organic, it’s Soil …
Repulsing the logging invasion of Tasmania’s wet eucalypt forest by Paul Kingsnorth
… last 1,000 years.’ He moves on. I follow, steadying myself on low-slung vines. The forest … it begins to process plantation wood here instead of exporting all the raw materials … Chipman’s group myself,’ he says, as we drink tea in his dining room, which has a stunning …
The rights of nature and of indigenous communities are enshrined in Ecuador's constitution, writes Kevin Koenig. But down in the Amazon the government is going full speed ahead with oil extraction on indigenous territories whose owners are committed to keeping their forests and waters pollution-free. A mighty battle is brewing that looks certain to come to a head this year.
… Gerardo brought us to a towering ceibo tree, teaming with life. Gerardo explained the … as the 'Fart Plant', which you can drink as a tea to relieve gas, a sweet cane plant, and … and press conferences, and attacked with tear gas inside her other house in the jungle …