Green Living
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
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
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.
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.
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...
Credo: Wangari Maathai
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Founder of Green Belt Movement and Nobel Peace Prize winner, 69
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?
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.
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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