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Zero Food Waste: from what food we waste the most to what to do with carrot tops, broccoli leaves and brown bananas.
Reviving Fruit and Vegetables: From floppy lettuce to managing your avocado’s, how to keep your fruit and veg fresher, longer
Reducing Your Food Footprint: Challenge your assumptions, read the data on what we actually spend on our food and the impact on our farmers plus so much more! Transitions Streets programme module on food with tips on reducing our footprints.
How Barfoots (Farm) is Winning the Sustainability Race in the UK: This family run farm in the South of England is THRIVING – thanks to a deep commitment to sustainability and some seriously clever tech! Find out how ‘business’ and ‘sustainability’ can work in our favour.
Grain to Glass, Sustainable Whiskey: Saving water, reducing carbon and regenerative farming wasn’t what the expected focus of our whiskey tour of Lagavulin on the Isle of Islay. Diageo’s ‘Grain to Glass’ programme is environmentally pioneering and makes perfect economic sense.
Coral Frame Donations, Four Seasons: Would you make the connection between the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and South Georgia Island in the Antarctic Southern Ocean? Well, 5 individuals did when they placed significant bids on building coral frames in the Maldives through the South Georgia Heritage Trust’s annual auction.
Turning Whisky Waste into Renewable Gas: Well who knew that the waste ‘mash’ from making bourbon to be exact, would be on this list – and not just the ‘mash’ but the stillage gets a second life nourishing crops.
Why Your Choices in the Shopping Aisle Matter in Antarctica: Don’t underestimate the power of the ‘wallet vote’ – here are four choices you COULD make that will make a difference.
The Krill Conflict: With two health retailers setting the trend of pulling krill products from its shelves, Holland & Barrett and dm-drogeria Markt, what else can we avoid purchasing so that this industry gets the message?
Citizen Science
The Krill Conflict: Whatever way you cut it, Krill is essential for the wellbeing of countless species in the Antarctic Southern Ocean. But is krill oil really a ‘health necessity’ as the industry claims?