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Ethical and green living

Tips on ethical and green living

July 2024

  • A yellow electric Renault 5

    Sceptics say EVs will overwhelm the grid. In fact, they could be part of the solution

    Electric vehicles are ‘batteries on wheels’ that can put energy back into the National Grid when solar panels and windfarms do not provide much power
  • 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)

    It is possible to give your mattress a second life. Here are some handy tips
    • UK tech startup raises £5m to prevent dangerous mould in social housing

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

    • 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

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