If anyone saw Breakfast News on the BBC or read the front page of the Daily Mail website this morning you may have been as gobsmacked as us organic-ites at the the state of recycling in the UK. It has been revealed that a significant amount of the paper and card we have come to […]

With the credit crunch in full swing more of us are using price as a determining factor as to whether we choose organic over non-organic. Be it in your morning cuppa or on your cereal, milk is one daily staple in most of our diets worth writing on the organic side of the shopping list.
Cow’s […]

In a world first, the people of the South American Republic of Ecuador have voted in favour of a constitution that gives nature - that’s rainforests, rivers and air - legal rights akin to those given to humans.
Two thirds of Ecuadorians voted in the new laws which state nature has the “right to exist, persist, […]

There’s a new washing machine on the European market (but sadly not available in the UK yet) that does not require any detergents to clean your dirty clothes. It’s called the WasH2O and is made by Chinese company Haier.How it works is electrical currents are sent through the water turning the water’s atoms into acid […]

Four good reasons being a vegetarian is better for the planet and you:
1. Animals contribute significantly to global warming. The vegetarian Society’s Silent But Deadly campaign is getting the word out there that farmed animals contribute 18% of greenhouse gas emissions. Scary when compared to the entire world’s transport system which is believed to emit 13.5% […]

The rising cost of energy and animal feed has seen an increase in the price we pay for meats (nearly 14% in the last year). We have also seen a rise in the cost of animal derived products such as butter (up 31% in the past year).
The good news for organic meat eaters, according to […]

The EU will soon require all foods containing six specified artificial colours - sunset yellow (E110), quinoline yellow (E104) allura red (E129), carmoisine (E112) tartrazine (E102) ponceau 4R (E124) - to have warning labels on packaging due to their link in causing hyperactivity in children. The UK Food Standards Agency is asking food producers and […]

It’s official. More of us than ever are dropping our rubbish - but not in the way you may think. Defra (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) recently published figures that indicate UK households have reduced their total waste (down 0.2 million tonnes in the final three months of last year). Also 33.9% […]

How many of us make our own bread? Not a lot I’m guessing. Well, there are a few campaigns at the moment encouraging bread lovers to give it a try and risk the prospect of never turning back to the mass manufactured, additive loaded variety again.
Sustain and Resurgence are two organisations asking us to buckle […]

350
The latest research tells us that 350 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere is the upper most limit to which irreversible damage occurs to the earth.
We have already passed this number but it’s not too late to lower it… yet.
A huge global campaign is swinging in to effect and it’s not just the […]