How can a vegan diet help reduce your carbon footprint?
What are the benefits of avoiding eating meat or dairy? This Earth Day, Ellen Tout explores the environmental impact of our food and how a vegan diet helps reduce your carbon footprint
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How to make your workplace more eco-friendly
Ellen Tout helps a reader create a more eco-friendly workplace, encourage colleagues to follow suit – and tell the boss being green in your office is a money-saving, team-building exercise too!
How to compleat fruits and vegetables and reduce food waste
Concerned about food waste? Want to be more creative in the kitchen? Our Eco Living Editor, Ellen Tout, explains how we can ‘compleat’ different fruits, vegetables and herbs – cooking with the parts we usually throw away. Creative, waste-free plant-based cooking awaits!
Holiday cottage break in the heart of Somerset
Ellen Tout explores the best walks and places to visit and stay in Somerset
How to make that big decision in life when you’ve got too many choices
So much choice, so little time… Ellen Tout is overwhelmed with ideas for new projects and endeavours, but which ones are the right ones?
Campaigning for plastic-free period products – what you can do
Ella Daish, an environmental activist who started the campaign to #EndPeriodPlastic, explains the problem with period plastic, the best plastic-free period products and what you can do to make your period more sustainable
How can we create a more sustainable future for the planet?
Eco Living Editor Ellen Tout explores the importance of a green recovery and the link between pandemics and the climate crisis
What are community fridges and food sharing apps?
Food waste is uneconomical and contributes to the climate crisis. This month, Ellen Tout highlights the food-sharing schemes making a difference in communities
The top 5 best five plastic-free and sustainable tea brands
As part of our Real Eco awards, Ellen Tout announces the best plastic-free, ethical and sustainable tea brands on the market. These are our top five, award-winning brews
Can travel ever be environmentally friendly?
Ellen Tout explores the impact of travel and flying, and whether holidays abroad can ever be truly sustainable and eco-conscious
