Some six years ago, Jacques Peretti made a startling TV series on how easy it has become to throw away stuff and how difficult it is to keep using it: Planned Obsolescence: and The Men
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Here’s a good definition from the BBC’s Technology of Business reporter earlier this summer: What is solarpunk and can it help save the planet? Lush green communities with roof top gardens, floating villages, transport fuelled
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The Times takes us to another pioneer in sustainable fashion: Thirteen million items of clothing end up in landfill every week in the UK. One woman is on a mission to change that with an
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Today, Radio 4 took us to a growing project in Cornwall: Open Country | Kerdoya – The Cornish Labyrinth | Helen Mark meets Will Coleman to discover the wonders of the Cornish hedge. As the
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Here’s a nice little something to help us enjoy the woods at this time of year… from the local council and friends… If you go down the woods today… New Creative Nature Boxes encourage local
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A week ago, the Mail was encouraging us to turn down the heat and put on a jumper: If you’re cold this Winter… wear a JUMPER: Energy experts blast ‘T-shirt tweakers’ who heat their homes
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Is it really possible for Vogue magazine, the temple to fashion, to question ‘fashion’? It seems it can. How to Quit Fast Fashion, According to Aja Barber “The future looks both bright and bleak,” Aja Barber writes
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Repairing/mending/fixing stuff is actually pretty creative… InterviewBack for good: the fine art of repairing broken thingsKatie Treggiden The new right to repair law will push manufacturers to reduce obsolescence. But artists and activists are already
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See the work of hundreds of knitters and crafters across the UK, as a 1.5 mile stitched and knitted scarf is put on display across Glasgow Green drying poles, during the Day of Global Action,
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A book reviewed on the VGS news pages some time back is clearly something to repost: ‘Yestermorrow’, a new novel set in East Devon, on a future of living sustainably – Vision Group for Sidmouth