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What lies beneath: Plastics threat to UK beaches

A tide of hidden filth has contributed to a huge decline in coastal areas fit for swimming

Inside Green Living

Tesla Roadster: Top speed: 130mph / Charge time: 3.5 hours / Distance between charges: 220 miles / Price: £94,000

Batteries included: Are eco-friendly cars any good?

Monday, 29 June 2009

Politicians want British drivers to switch over to eco-friendly cars. They're silent and stylish – but are they any good? John Walsh puts pedal to the metal

The embarrassing report comes just days after Gordon Brown's proposals for a £60bn international fund to help poorer countries deal with climate change were announced

Britain's green shame

Sunday, 28 June 2009

On environmental sustainability, the prognosis is grim: Britain is "winning battles, but still losing the war".

Cyclo-therapy: How much have you thought about your posture and set-up? Getting it wrong can cause injury

Saturday, 27 June 2009

It's over a year since I drove past a little bike shop in Sussex and popped in for some socks. About an hour later I had the socks. And a new pair of shoes. Oh, and a gleaming new roadbike worth £2,000. I've cherished my Trek Madone, with its blue carbon frame and wispy wheels, but last week I was reminded of the perils of the impulse buy – my companion over hundreds of miles is completely wrong for me.

In the German town of Vauban the cyclist is king

Auto-ban: the German town that went car-free

Friday, 26 June 2009

Vauban hopes to forge a model community. Now the sound of birdsong has replaced the roar of traffic and children can play in the street

Eco Chic: Should we wear a uniform?

Monday, 22 June 2009

Last week I blithely ended my column by saying that to be fashionably ethical what we need to do is to buy fewer clothes.

Natural wonder: Eden grows Grenache grapes without the use of chemicals

Join the bio bunch: Bertie Eden's vineyard is reaping the rewards of biodynamic wine-making

Sunday, 21 June 2009

It's Old World all right, but Bertie Eden's vineyard operates along the distinctly new guidelines of biodynamics. And you can be a part of it...

Maathai says: 'Being a woman in Kenyan politics has meant I have not been able to do as much as I wanted. Men are quick to tell the voters you can't do as much as they can.'

Credo: Wangari Maathai

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Founder of Green Belt Movement and Nobel Peace Prize winner, 69

<b>André Hodgskin (New Zealand)</b>: <b>iPAD (538sq ft)</b> After producing the pioneering Bachkit in  2000, the sleek prefab  that swept away the  hand-me-down look of the traditional New Zealand holiday home, architect André Hodgskin's latest 'kitset' house is the smaller but equally smart iPAD. Like the Bachkit, the minimalist iPAD comes with foldaway fittings and single modules can be added together to form L-shaped or linear buildings around enough decking for the largest of barbecues. Already they're venturing from their native shores; one is on its way to  a Fijian beach in a 40ft shipping container.

Absolutely prefabulous: Eco-living has never looked this good thanks to a new wave of prefabricated palaces

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Assembled in days, delivered in one shipment and boasting the latest advances in eco-living: is it any wonder the world's leading architects and designers are re-evaluating flat-pack living for the 21st century?

The circle of life: Emma peers through a steel porthole in Hallenga and Bugg's insect-friendly log wall

Crawling with great ideas: The 'future garden' festival focuses on conservation and insect-friendly innovation

Sunday, 21 June 2009

"When I was a kid, growing up in wartime London," says David Bellamy, "there were butterflies everywhere." Clouds of African butterflies have been back in Britain this May, reminding us of what we have lost. Several million Painted Ladies dropped in from Morocco for a summer stint in our green and pleasant gardens, providing a tantalising glimpse of the riches of the past.

Workers' rites: Nearly forty years since its inception, the 260+ staff at the worker-owned Rainbow Grocery co-op are long past throwing produce at each other to emphasise a point

Pot of gold: Is California's revolutionary Rainbow Grocery supermarket utopia?

Sunday, 21 June 2009

There is a supermarket far far away where life is good for customers, workers, the planet and even cyclists, but is this utopian model of a grocery store likely to ever reach Britain?

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