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Ethical and green living

Tips on ethical and green living

August 2024

  • An illustration of a globe cracking under pressure

    Fertility crisis
    Slow the growth, save the world? Why declining birth rates need not mean an end to prosperity

  • Woman thrift shopping

    Change by degrees
    Say less to the dress: why I’m cutting back on secondhand clothes shopping

  • Brad Lancaster

    What I've learnt about green living ...
    ‘I giggle when I pee in the shower’: the joy of harvesting greywater for the garden

  • A child climbs on a play ladder

    America's dirty divide
    Cosy, quiet and efficient: how New York is pioneering eco-friendly apartments

  • ‘They encouraged us to insulate our home. Now it’s unmortgageable’

  • ‘His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic’: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?

  • What I've learnt about green living ...
    ‘I turned into a solar nerd’: money and fun were the unexpected benefits of installing panels

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution

  • I wanted a tiny house – and a big life. Could I have it all in 25 square metres?

  • The alternatives
    ‘Ultra-cheap energy for every household’: could a different kind of tariff change everything?

July 2024

  • Mosaics by Gill Aitken (Lancaster) for the Artangel show Come as You Really Are

    July design news: 50 years of Casio, an iPod revival and mending as an art

  • Hands over a heater at home

    Full Story
    Why are Australian homes so cold? – Full Story podcast

  • Workers at desks with sewing machines and spools of thread

    John Lewis trials repair service in partnership with Timpson Group

  • A yellow electric Renault 5

    Sceptics say EVs will overwhelm the grid. In fact, they could be part of the solution

  • Change by degrees
    Sleeping on waste: how to recycle a mattress in Australia so that it doesn’t end up in landfill (or on the street)

  • UK tech startup raises £5m to prevent dangerous mould in social housing

  • Heat pump mythbusters
    Will my heat pump be a noise nuisance to my neighbours?

  • Labour must resist housebuilders’ pleas to weaken green standards, experts say

June 2024

  • Tom Jeffreys

    Our Baillie Gifford boycotts aren’t about tearing down the arts – they’re about building them up

    Tom Jeffreys
  • huge fields of solar panels next to a field of green crops

    Project Syndicate economists
    It doesn’t make sense: why US tariffs on Chinese cleantech risk the green transition

    Jeffrey Frankel
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