When searching for a source of eco-friendly candles free from the environmental impacts of paraffin wax (a toxic byproduct of petroleum bad for both human and planet health), we are presented with a number seemingly 'green' option. However,, whether the candles are touted as cruelty-free, ethical, sustainable or zero waste, it is likely, when you look at the circular story behind each ingredient from seed-to-wick, most manufactured candles are not as green as they claim to be. When we think about our lifestyle products, we don't often think about the base ingredients which form it, yet eve ..read more

As we step into this ‘decade of climate action’, we have been reminded, through floods, fires, earthquakes, volcanos and acts of aggression, that the work of politics does not end with the General Election. For many of us, years of concentrating on greener lifestyle shifts and ‘tactical voting’ in the outdated first-past-the-post electoral system, will have led us to the conclusion that despite our best intentions and utmost actions, each effort made is compromised by our society’s broken systems.  Yet through this narrative, which tells us change can only be forged from the top-down o ..read more

The most sustainable diet for the planet is not about WHAT you eat, but HOW what you eat is cultivated seed-to-table.  From the sowing of seeds, to farm worker's pay and treatment, to your food's transportation, and the pollution caused along the way. It's all a question of provenance and careful cultivation. In truth it doesn’t matter if you’re vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, or meat-eating, our entire food system is unsustainable and degenerative because it exists in the confines of capitalism. An economic system can only exist through the constant consumption of products produced ..read more

Like most of you, I’ve been haunted daily by the apocalyptic anthology alight in Australia these past months. Though I’m inspired by the stories and acts of humanity that have risen from this tragedy, I’ve lived long enough to learn that no matter how much money we send in its wake (which we should do), it will only ever act as a bandaid.  Apart from these moments in Australia, California and Amazonia, where we all gasp collectively at the sheer size of the calamity, an overwhelming majority of us will return to our daily lives and dig into the dissonance, because we know that if we truly got ..read more

Procured through ancient wisdoms of regeneration, yak wool is amongst the most ethical and sustainable winter yarns in modern existence. For thousands of years, indigenous nomadic herders have stewarded land and animals across the globe.  One corner of that stewardship is shepherding, a piece of traditional ecological knowledge imitated by holistic planned grazing. These practices regenerate the soil, plants and biosphere by mimicking the natural movements of semi-wild yaks on the landscapes they evolved from and for.  For these tribes, yak's are an integral part of life. Much like the bu ..read more

Being forced to vote tactically is not real democracy, moving the question from "who's policies best represent me" to "who do I hate least". ⁣That said, here in the UK, 126 marginal seats with competitive 'axis' of Leave/Remain will swing our country away from Europe, or swing us away. ⁣ However, Brexit isn't the only thing at stake, what is at stake is meaningful societal change. And whether we 'leave' or 'remain', no party beholden to our current economic systems of 'GDP', held up by fabricated ‘demands’ beholden to our acts of compulsive consumption can ever bring the change needed. ⁣ I ..read more

Within the walls of the world’s oldest active biological society, and under the watchful eye of gold-framed faces belonging to men who named and studied all manner of plants and life gathered a voluntary team of conservationists, nature writers, and one woke politician with a plan to amplify the voices and rights of these islands’ non-human beings for the first time in modern history. Had these 18th-century folk Linnaeus, Darwin and Wallace now poised on the wall, known the abuses the next 200 odd years would cause nature to befall, they might have too stood in this way to save her. Yet as ..read more

The Green Party UK stands for unity, for social and ecological justice, for peace, for economic reform, for deprivatisation, and for democracy.  Throughout their history, their policies and efforts have been built on the bedrocks of equality and regeneration. ⁣⁣Choosing hope over fear, working to build bridges, not walls, and coalescing plans to unleash a green revolution that will create a safer, fairer future for all.⁣ I truly believe this is the best party to lead the UK; however, they’re heinously underfunded (they have around £200k to spend on this election while Labour and others h ..read more

Over the past week, Extinction Rebellion, a grassroots movement I have participated in both here in the UK and France, has been sending out newsletters regarding their 'Election Rebellion', offering rebels the information to make informed decisions and demands.  While I am a member of XR and support (for the most part) their actions and choice to remain apolitical, as an individual, I do not believe the climate crisis can be divorced from politics. As a result of these beliefs, I've chosen to invest my time in both grassroots actions and political reform in tandem, in hopes I can help bookend ..read more

For as long as humans have dressed beyond the bone, linen fabric has been the main material we've worn. As a bast fiber, linen is spun from seed to fabric from the inner stem of the flax plant, a plant so diverse its stems, leaves and seeds can be transformed into ingredients for multiple industries.  Since flax grows in almost any season, and in almost any type of soil (including soil which can't be used for food production) it can be cultivated and manufactured as a regenerative regional fiber. As a perennial plant, flax mobilizes phosphorus in the soil, adding to organic matt ..read more