Conscious Living

The article provides practical solutions to combat plastic pollution and emphasises the importance of collective action in safeguarding our planet and well-being.

Make sure your adventures don’t support suffering. Find out how from this easy step by step guide.

As we approach Mother's Day, it's important to consider the impact of our gift-giving on the environment. Here are our gift ideas from verified ethical brands.

Show your porcelain throne and the environment a little love this World Toilet Day. Here's how.

Sometimes we need a bit of inspiration from real people around us to spark the motivation to take action and change the deeply rooted habits that we know we should. Sustainability is a wide topic and conscious living takes time and effort to implement. But, it definitely can be fun and feel great! Perhaps just with a little help from people who have been there and done it. This is why we love to champion bloggers, authors and creators who are all just real people living in the UK, making those changes, testing and trialling things, and sharing the best tips and guides on what worked, inspired them, helped the new habits stick and so on. Here's a selection of sustainable lifestyle blogs in the UK that we found inspired us. Hope it helps you too!

Your guide to which plastic and chemical free brands are proving better for the armpit as well as our planet.

Palm oil may well be one of the most controversial ingredients in the products we buy. Campaigns from environmental groups, consumer petitions and a growing media spotlight all point to it being a bad thing, but why?

Halloween is frightfully good fun, but the toll it takes on the environment can be downright terrifying. Cheap costumes, plastic sweet wrappers, single-use decorations… almost everything about the holiday is designed to be disposable, adding to the planet’s mounting waste problem. But there are plenty of ways to make sure waste is not the scariest thing about your ghoulish celebrations. Here are our top tips for a much greener Halloween.

Few of us can truthfully say we love getting out of bed in the morning (but if you do, please tell us your secret), and so the seemingly herculean effort of getting ready for the day is enough to contend with without the added worry of what your routine might be doing to the planet. But don’t you worry your sleepy head – we’ve rounded up the simplest and most effective swaps and hacks that will ensure your morning routine is as sustainable as possible. In fact, the biggest impact you’ll make will be lumbering down the stairs to the kettle.

From yummy food and glitzy decorations to killer outfits and remedies for killer hangovers, we share our favourite sustainable party tricks so you can leap into 2023 with a clean(ish) conscience.

Christmas – ‘tis the season to eat, drink and be merry. And after the year we’ve had we’ve definitely earned it, with many of us rightfully intent on kicking back and chilling out over the festive season. And yet, our plans to do very little often end up creating a lot – of waste that is. All the extras we buy to help maximise our downtime – food, decorations, novelty clothes and so on – mean we create 30% more waste in December than the rest of the year, with much of it ending up in landfill. This is the equivalent of generating 1.4 million tonnes of CO2. But these shocking statistics don’t need to put a stop to your celebrations! Just make a few smart sustainable swaps and you can enjoy a festive period that’s low impact on both you and the planet.

There are ways to be creative without it costing the earth and here are some tips for making your hobbies more sustainable.

January is certainly not the most joyful month of the year. It’s grey and drizzly, Christmas is but a distant memory and it feels like it’ll be ages before anything exciting happens again. So it’s no surprise most of us just want to stagnate on the sofa with the leftover festive chocolate. But this year, why not try something different? Veganuary is an annual challenge that encourages people to go vegan for the month of January. It began in 2014 and has been slowly increasing in popularity since – in 2021, more than half a million people took part! The rules are simple: no animal-based products for 31 days. How strictly you decide to follow that is up to you – some people might give up leather products in addition to making changes to their diet, for example, while others might just focus on eliminating meat and dairy. You don’t need to do it perfectly, either. Veganuary is all about increasing awareness of veganism and encouraging people to try something new, rather than completely overhauling your lifestyle overnight. And even if you don’t keep it up after the month is out, you’ll have picked up some great meal ideas that will help lessen your dietary impact into the future. Not sure if it’s for you? Here’s five reasons you should consider giving it a try.