It’s a subject that is rarely far from the headlines and it affects pretty much everyone to some degree but having a moan because food costs more than it used to is rather hypocritical because…
On this blog I have generally focused on changes you can make to yours and your family’s lifestyle to bring it more into line with sustainability and preventing runaway climate change but today I want…
A report by Oxfam into the ethical standards of the world’s biggest food companies has found many leading brands to be severely wanting in a variety of areas, including their approach to land management, their…
For a while now I have been digesting the idea of a negative carbon diet and whether it is even possible and recently I’ve come across my answer. But before I reveal all, let me…
In this hectic world where everything seems to go at a hundred miles an hour, sometimes slowing down is a luxury we can’t seem to afford. Slow cookers have been around for a long time…
As Band Aid rightly said, we need to Feed The World but as our climate changes and populations grow, how easy will it be to sufficiently feed everybody? We don’t even do a very good…
A number of the UK’s leading supermarkets are facing shortages of certain fruits and vegetables following a summer of terrible growing conditions. Later harvests have left retailers under stocked and many have been forced to…
Apart from on the odd bowl of cereal when I’ve been away from my own home, I haven’t bought cow’s milk since setting out to find a plant based, low carbon alternative back in January….
This will probably come as quite a shock to those people who know me well but I am eating vegetarian meals for the whole of this working week to see just how easy it is…
So today I found myself hugely frustrated with my own actions and it drove home to me how little things can escape a person’s attention if they are not careful. It may not seem like…