By Jessica Clark Recently, the environmentally unfriendly effects of fast fashion have entered public consciousness, causing pause for thought amongst those of us wishing to implement sustainable ethics into our lifestyles. Knowing that the fashion industry produces 10 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions and that to manufacture a single pair of jeans uses…
This month’s blog is a more practical one. We’re talking a lot about plastic and the harm that it will do, i.e. we all know that it’s important to avoid plastic whereever we can. But it can be hard to find shops where you can actually buy things that are NOT packaged in plastic.You would…
By Ludovica Uggeri Holidays are always a great way to relax, get away from your routine, enjoy a bit of sunshine and spend time with friends and family. They are the opportunity to switch off from reality, but that doesn’t mean that we have to forget how important the planet is! These top tips will…
Last year my life changed. There were 2 major events which prompted this change, the first was starting a new job at Too Good To Go – the app that’s fighting food waste in the UK & Europe, my eyes were opened to the issue of food waste and its impact on the environment. The…
When I was young I use to live in a seaside town in Italy, a place where I could hear the seagulls cawing outside my window and had the beach a few minutes away from my house. I remember spending the afternoons after school walking along the beach and playing with the sand. Time passed…
Last month we went on a “field trip” to Camden market. It might seem a little strange to be taking a field trip to somewhere we visit regularly, but then it’s not often you visit Camden market to spot litter bins. This was a fact finding mission to see for ourselves what the market is…
Recently I’ve been thinking about how I can make more of buy nothing day. Buying nothing can end up being a bit of a passive endeavour – staying at home, eating leftovers, not shopping on the internet – it’s possible to “buy nothing” by “doing nothing” and that’s not really the intent. There are…
Once a month we at Camden Friends of the Earth having been attempting to buy nothing, spend nothing and consume as little as we can bringing attention to and shifting the balance of our lives. We’ve all seen the stats – as just one example, if everyone in the world was to consume as we…
With the excitement of the general election behind us, it’s time to re-focus on the local agenda. In 2011 the council launched their sustainability plan, Green Action for Change, with some fanfare. The plan sensibly focused many of the Council’s initiatives around improvements that would directly benefit local residents (such as home insulation). At the…
I think I’m addicted. Yet unlike millions in this world of mass consumption and waste, it’s not shopping I’m addicted to, rather the opposite. I’m addicted to inventive ways to make “buy nothing” work whatever the circumstances. It started many years ago when I moved to Australia to work for a year. I resolved to…