Food Waste and Anaerobic Digestion
For this week’s article, we thought we’d focus on one of the great technical feats of our time. It’s a hugely important area of sustainable innovation – a real frontier in the fight against climate change – but, confoundingly, it hasn’t always received the press attention it deserves. The technology in question is best described […]
COP26 and the IPCC Report
On the face of it, the central claim of the recent IPCC Report – that human activity is having a rapid and irreversible effect on our climate – appears fairly banal. In any sane society, ascribing banality to the IPCC’s semi-apocalyptic warnings would appear a contradiction in terms. In our society, though, prophecies of flooding and drought […]
5 Influencers You Need To Be Following On Instagram
Instagram, like most social media platforms, has been subject to widespread criticism over the last few years. Many of these critiques are entirely justified; there can be little doubt that the app has some unattractive traits, and is symptomatic (or potentially causative) of some worrying cultural trends. No thing is all bad, though, and Instagram […]
Coral Reefs: The Lungs of the Sea
If it’s forests that allow the land-dwelling world to breathe, then coral reefs are best understood as the lungs of the sea. Much like the rainforest floor, corals play host to such a wildly diverse selection of animal life that scientists continue to discover new reef-dwelling species at an incredible rate. These aquatic landscapes – […]
The Climate Crisis and Politics
‘The climate crisis requires immediate action’. This isn’t the first time you’ve heard somebody express that sentiment: in fact, so common are professions of this kind, you’ve probably heard something pretty similar in the last 24 hours. The fact that we’re subjected to this climate-related echolalia is proof enough that present efforts to slow the […]
Supermarket Plastics
From a very young age, we all have an inherent understanding of the differences between supermarkets: we know which are cheaper, which sell higher quality products, etc. Unfortunately, though, one characteristic of our supermarkets is less well-publicized: their relative attitudes to plastic waste. In this blog, we’ll outline the plastic-related performance of the major UK […]
Is Recycling Even Worth It?
Tackling the issue of plastic waste can sometimes seem like a losing battle. When we see campaigns like the one recently published by Greenpeace – citing the heaps of plastic we continue to ‘dump…on the rest of the world’ – or when we discover that a portion of our recycling is incinerated, the whole question […]
People, Private Companies and our Collective Responsibility
We have a collective tendency to judge our peers based on their motivations as much as their actions. If a politician passes a widely popular bill, for example, you’ll often hear commentators questioning his motives: was this a genuine attempt to improve society, or a pragmatic move to secure public support? In most walks of […]
Reusing Plastic Bottles
‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’. Though we’ve all heard this phrase, we tend to focus on its foremost and final instructions, and to ignore the suggestion which is (perhaps not coincidentally) at its core. ‘Reusing’ is among the most useful things one can do for the environment; nothing guarantees that a waste product doesn’t end up in […]
GnW: Our Methods
There’s a sad irony in the fact that the same products we use to clean our bodies and households are doing so much to dirty the environment. We believe that the road to sustainability begins at home, which is why we’re endeavouring to supply you with essential products which help to upkeep both your immediate and your […]
