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Recent Reading: Amazon Workers Are Striking Over The Climate Crisis
So much to read, so little time. I understand there is a lot going on at the moment, and it’s all happening at simultaneously. If you feel up to it, read on and learn more. I’ve included a selection...
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What Is Biodiversity, Why Does It Matter, & How Can We Protect It?
If you’ve been following climate news for a while, you’ve probably heard the term biodiversity before. This umbrella term covers an incredibly expansive, diverse and awe-inspiring collection of living...
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Does Stranger Things Have Something To Say About The Climate Crisis?
This post is the first in a new series I’m trying out, where I examine elements of pop culture through the lens of sustainability and social justice. It’s no secret that I find pop culture fascinating,...
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Fighting Textile Waste In Fashion: How This Brand Is Getting It Right
When we look at the numbers on clothing and waste, it makes for pretty grim reading. Every week in the UK 11 million items of clothing go to landfill. According to WRAP, that’s £140m worth of clothing...
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How The Gym Helped Me Embrace My Body (This Is Not A Post About Exercise)
This is not a post about getting in shape, this is a post about internalised misogyny. It’s also a post prompted by my past collaborations with Asquith, who chose to sponsor this post after I sent it...
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Climate Refugees: The Unwritten Definition Which Leaves Millions Stuck In...
This article was written by Bethany Morris, a content writer for the Immigration Advice Service, an organisation of immigration lawyers and solicitors which provides free legal aid support to...
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Why Protests Are Necessary, Even When They Inconvenience People
This is a conversation I’ve seen before, and it has only escalated in recent months. It’s a conversation that has happened for years when it comes to protests for racial justice and other critical...
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What About Jobs? Renewable Energy Is The Answer
Placing a sustainable future as an enemy to jobs is a move that truly baffles me. It’s something that the UK government seems to be adept at, despite this being a woefully inaccurate misunderstanding...
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Why China’s Emissions Are So High & How They Actually Compare To Other Countries
If you’ve been involved in any conversation around climate breakdown, climate protests or moving to a low carbon future, you’re probably familiar with one question that comes up again and again: what...
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What Does Slavery Actually Look Like?
Working in the sustainable and ethical sphere for a while means that the subject of slavery will be raised eventually. Because we live in a globalised world, many of us have been in contact with supply...
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Common Ground: A New Conscious Marketplace Comes To London
Earlier in the year I received an unexpected email from some of the team behind Islington Square. Located directly between Angel and Highbury & Islington stations, the Islington Square project has...
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Fashion Seasons Are Made Up, So Let’s Stop Shopping Seasonally
You don’t need to buy new clothes every season. If you want a TLDR of the blog post you’re about the read, that’s it. I never imagined writing a blog post like this, because I have happily sailed...
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Please Stop Using These Arguments Against Environmental Advocates
Have you ever heard of the term ‘whataboutism‘? While you might not have heard of the phrase before, you’ll definitely have seen it play out in real life. The idea of whataboutism is that when an...
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Recent Reading: Have You Heard Of ‘Climate Sad Bois’?
Hey folks, it’s been a while! What a whirlwind few months, but here’s what I’ve been reading recently that I found interesting, and hopefully you will too. White supremacy, the patriarchy, politics...
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Is Palo Santo Sustainable? Here’s Why We Need To Stop Using It
This post was written by Arti Jalan, from Forage and Sustain. Forage and Sustain is an online platform that approaches all things related to sustainable and conscious living with a fresh perspective....
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Why Honey Bees Are Important & Ways We Can Protect Them
This post was sponsored by Low Carbon. All thoughts and editorial direction my own. It has now been over a decade since bee welfare made its way into international conversation. Since then progress has...
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Zero Waste Gift Guide: 30+ Ideas For Plastic Free Gifts
It’s been a big year for the conversation around plastic, and it’s encouraging to see more people than ever before committing to lowering their waste, however that may work for them. With this in mind,...
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Sustainable Living Gift Guide: 25+ Gift Ideas For A More Conscious Lifestyle
And here we are, gift guide number two! This guide is less specifically focused on one theme, but is more of a collection of ideas for those people in our lives who have an interest in sustainable and...
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Conscious Men’s Gift Guide: Ethical, Sustainable & Low Waste Gift Ideas For Guys
I just want to take a moment for a quick disclaimer on this gift guide. While this is named as a gift guide for men, I want to be clear that these gifts are of course also great options for anyone who...
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Fashion & Beauty Gift Guide: Sustainable, Ethical, Non-Toxic & Fair
And here we are! Our final gift guide of 2019. This gift guide specifically focuses on different aspects of fashion and beauty, including looking at a variety of materials, aesthetics and approaches to...
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