Looking to reduce your food waste? Check out these 5 inspiring, effective, and FREE apps that can help you save the planet and reduce food waste. Around a third of all food produced is lost or wasted on our planet. This contributes up to 10% of the total greenhouse gas emissions fuelling climate change. In …
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) – which includes indoor agriculture and vertical farms – is a type of farming that controls various aspects of the environment such as temperature, humidity, light, carbon dioxide, and nutrients. This modern way of growing crops uses highly developed technology to understand and implement the best environment possible to enhance crop …
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Possibly more than ever before we have all grown tired of seeing the inside of our houses. Being trapped inside through the Covid-19 pandemic has affected us all. Lots of us have noticed our mental health coming under pressure throughout the pandemic, but what about our physical health? With winter colds and other bugs flying …
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In the UK, we throw away £9.7 billion of food every year – that’s a staggering amount of food ending up in the bin! On average, each household throws away £355.68 worth of food every year. Not only is this food waste a strain on the planet, but it also means we are effectively throwing …
Winter bug season is upon us, and lots of people are looking for natural ways to support their immune systems. What we eat can have a big impact on our body’s ability to defend itself from the onslaught of bugs it faces at this time of year. So, if you’re looking for ways you can …
Most of us visit a supermarket weekly to buy the food we need for the coming days. It is easy to get into a routine, visiting the same parts of the shop every time. Have you ever thought about how your supermarket habits could be improved to help protect the planet? There are a few …
With less than a month to go before COP26, fears about the climate are more prevalent than ever. There is a lot of work to be done to preserve the health of the planet for future generations. The scale of this task is making a lot of people worried, and the term ‘climate anxiety’ has …
When we go to the supermarket, the traffic light system helps us to understand how healthy foods are. Foods that are high in saturated fats, salt, and sugar clearly show red labels telling us to make sure we don’t eat too much of them. Traffic light health labels became ubiquitous in the UK in 2013, …
Lots of us are trying to eat foods grown locally to try to reduce the impact on the climate of our diets and support local farmers. In fact, 63% of British people are thought to be buying more locally grown produce than they did before the pandemic. Consuming locally grown produce has so many benefits, including …
Our lives have changed in so many ways over the last 18 months. Some of these changes were forced upon us and will be left behind as soon as possible! But there are others that we will embrace even as “normality” returns. The slowing down of our lives throughout the pandemic has allowed us to …
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