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Green-living is important for a lot of people... but how much does the environment figure in your morning routine? Sustainability activist Venetia Falconer starts the day as she means to go on - and that's by making eco-friendly choices from the moment her alarm goes off.
The Welsh village of Fairbourne was built on a floodplain more than 100 years ago. It’s been popular with holidaymakers and retirees ever since. But the realities of climate change could see the tranquil spot get lost forever to the rising sea. Government reports have suggested that the village be "decommissioned" by 2045, with the process completed by 2055.
My knowledge of Elizabethan history and Percy Shelley’s poetry are useless if my generation have to live in a world so ecologically damaged it can no longer support human life.
Emily Eavis says that 99.3% of all tents were packed up 👏
Companies will be expected to reveal by 2022 how climate change could jeopardise their finances.
Extreme weather events like floods and heatwaves used to occur every few decades – now they are expected to happen every five years after 2050.
Emails show long-time corporate mercenaries on the march at the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Ditch single-use packaging – and buy loose where you can.
Can you avoid single-use plastic for a month? Millions of people from around the world have signed up for Plastic Free July, an initiative from the Plastic Free Foundation. Participants take on the challenge to avoid single-use plastic for the month, swapping out disposable cups for reusable ones, and plastic shopping bags for material totes. Half of all plastic produced is designed to be used only once and then thrown away, adding to the trillions of pounds of plastic waste polluting the planet.
One engineer-turned-farmer in the Netherlands believes he has found a solution to climate change - floating cow farms. Moored in an offshoot of Rotterdam's busy port, the farm is a futuristic three-story floating structure where one robot milks the cows and another automatically scoops up the manure.