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Ethical and green living

Tips on ethical and green living

July 2024

  • A composite image for Change By degrees Mattress Recycling

    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)

  • Woman using Switchee thermostat

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

  • Graphic showing a heat pump and someone with their hands over their ears

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

  • Scaffolding around new homes under construction

    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
  • A woman searches through tons of used clothes in the Atacama desert in Chile

    John Lewis clothing range aims to ‘minimise waste and maximise longevity’

  • A bird's eye shot of a woman squatting on a rocky beach, sorting through plastic using a pink sieve.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Your plastic is here’: how Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore

  • Ethical banking in the UK: how to put your everyday account to good use

  • Clean v green: ‘disgust wins out’ over eco ideals when doing laundry, study finds

  • Are energy performance certificates worth the paper they’re written on?

May 2024

  • Maybe just buy a postcard instead?

    Be a better tourist! 28 ways to have a fantastic holiday – without infuriating the locals

  • a smart meter next as a woman pours herself a cup of tea from a freshly boiled kettle

    Almost a third of household smart meters not working properly, says Citizens Advice

  • Working on World Child Cancer's Nurturing Garden, designed by Giulio Giorgi, at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024.

    Brief letters
    Small steps towards sustainable gardens

  • A middel-aged white woman sits on a rock by the sea, wearing a wetsuit and surrounded by other wetsuits

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The search for the perfect wetsuit: is there one that doesn’t harm the planet?

  • M&S teams up with recycling tech group to trace plastic packaging

  • Don’t despair about the climate. Be part of the social tipping point

  • The China-linked EV battery mega factory dividing a US township

  • ‘It just didn’t work’: how businesses are struggling with re-useable packaging

  • ‘The Body Shop held our hand’: how the troubled British firm helped a recycling startup in India

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