Sustainable Living

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

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!

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!

Little Soap Company makes award-winning plastic-free, vegan and ethical soaps. Here its founder Emma Heathcote-James tells us how she created the company

Eco Living Editor Ellen Tout explores the importance of a green recovery and the link between pandemics and the climate crisis

Food waste is uneconomical and contributes to the climate crisis. This month, Ellen Tout highlights the food-sharing schemes making a difference in communities

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