Eco & ethical living
If you’re concerned about the quality of the air inside your home then there is an easy, attractive and inexpensive solution. Houseplants – cheap air filters Former NASA scientist B.C. Wolverton, author of How to Grow Fresh Air, discovered that you can significantly reduce indoor air pollution in your home or office by introducing plants […]
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Join the Great British Bee Count to help build a nationwide picture of bees’ health. Your help is vital as we don’t have an accurate picture of the condition of bees in the UK. We know that bees are going hungry and homeless. A big problem is the loss of their vital habitat, with 97%
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The May issue of Natural Health magazine comes with its invaluable yearly guide to the best in organic, green beauty products for body, face and hair. I love getting my hands on this free supplement as it’s always good to discover new brands, as well as seeing that some of my old favourites can still
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A few years ago I watched the fantastic film, Message in the Waves, which tells how Hawaiian islands, such as Midway Atoll, are finding our plastic waste is floating in their seas and being washed up on their beaches. These heartbreaking photos of dead albatross chicks revealing that they had consumed a staggering amount of
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It is recommended that you replace your toothbrush every 3 months which means in 60 years of brushing your teeth you could throw away more than 240 toothbrushes. Frisetta Kunststoff GmbH have come up with the fantastic, yet simple, idea of making a toothbrush with a replaceable head. So instead of throwing away the whole
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A mobile phone designed and produced by putting people and the environment first sounds like an impossible dream. Surely if it could be achieved then one of the big names like Apple or Samsung would already be doing it. Instead it’s taken a small Dutch social enterprise called Fairphone to green up the cellphone industry
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