low-impact-shopping

Voting with my fork: plant foods I’m not buying any more

Sometimes, I wish I didn’t know the backstory to some foods, so I could happily buy them at the local shops and not think twice. But I do and here is my list of foods I won’t be buying again plus others that will require careful buying choices.

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How to buy second-hand solar panels

In early October 2021 I was teaching a series of workshops for The Brighton Permaculture Trust. One of these was a solar battery half-day workshop which I believe went very well, giving people an introduction to further solar courses. The other workshop was about woodland management; there will be more in 2022. Those people who

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Support small fishing boats over giant super-trawlers

Why we should support small fishing boats over super-trawlers, Part 3

Support small fishing boats over giant super-trawlers

Here’s the third and final part of my interview with Caroline Bennett, founder of ‘Sole of Discretion’ (a community interest company that sells fish caught by a collective of small fishing boats in Devon) about why we should support small fishing boats over giant super-trawlers. We’re talking about how government quotas benefit super-trawlers and disadvantage

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Why we should support small fishing boats over super-trawlers

Why we should support small fishing boats over super-trawlers, Part 2

Why we should support small fishing boats over super-trawlers

Here’s Part 2 of my interview with Caroline Bennett, founder of ‘Sole of Discretion’, a community interest company that sells fish caught by a collective of small fishing boats in Devon. Here we talk about the life of small fishing boat skippers.

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12 reasons industrial-scale agriculture is driving environmental destruction

12 reasons why industrial-scale agriculture is driving environmental destruction

12 reasons industrial-scale agriculture is driving environmental destruction

In this article, the LWA’s Horticulture Campaigns Coordinator Rebecca Laughton explains why we have to produce and trade a greater percentage of food locally.

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Why we should support small fishing boats over super-trawlers, Part 1

Here’s Part 1 of our interview with Caroline Bennett, founder of ‘Sole of Discretion’, a community interest company that sells fish caught by a collective of small fishing boats in Devon. Here we’re talking about the sustainability and community benefits of small fishing boats, the barriers that they face, and how her business can help

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Michael Linton LETS

LETS – origins, and what happened next: Michael Linton of LETSystems & Open Money

Michael Linton LETS

This is Part 1 of a conversation with Michael Linton – inventor of LETS, the moneyless exchange system. I want to talk about that, and he has a new idea called Open Money that we’ll talk about in Part 2.

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