Press for success: four tips from readers on the best ways to sell secondhand clothes
Price and cleanliness are key to recycling fashion – and friends, charities, theatre groups and even museums will take quality castoffs
April 2024
The EU’s ‘right to repair’ rule is truly radical – British builders should copy it wholesale
Phineas Harper
Remote working and whiffy workout wear fuel laundry revolution
Tesla among electric carmakers forced to cut prices as market stalls
‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass
Global battery rollout doubled last year – but needs to be six times faster, says IEA
What the Cybertruck’s many failures mean for Tesla
Clean energy’s dirty secret: the trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom
Joe Lycett edits Observer New Review
‘The courgettes were so good last year, I got a tattoo of one’: life on a Birmingham allotment
Change by degrees
Back on the rack: the best ways to sell secondhand clothes
World’s coal power capacity rises despite climate warnings
Notes and queries
Readers reply: why isn’t there a light in my freezer?
Shower power: Australian bathrooms are wasting energy and increasing your costs
Change by degrees
How Emma transformed a dilapidated shed into a home office with recycled materials and biowaste
Ethical shopping on the rise in UK despite cost of living crisis
Good scents: five eco-friendly ways to make your home smell great
Lease electric cars to rural care workers, UK climate charity says
March 2024
The rural network
Victoria trials reusable crates for fresh produce to cut ‘invisible’ waste from supply chain
Pilot scheme supplies 1,000 folding boxes to farms and wholesalers to reduce single-use cardboard, paper and plastic
Notes and queries
Why isn’t there a light in my freezer?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
The alternatives
‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken away’: German hospitals serve planetary health diet
A group of hospitals serve up a menu rich in plants – and say they have had few complaints
