Living the green life

HOW TO GET GREENER...

Once again, we’re starting a new year in a climate crisis. Headlines shout every day about rising temperatures, deforestation and extinction. It can be easy to get discouraged – but the antidote to cl

Wendy Graham explains sustainable ways to keep food fresh. FREEZER bags are undeniably useful at reducing the food that we waste, but the mountains of plastic they create are far less convenient for t

Wendy Graham looks at the sneaky things you can’t recycle at home. RECYCLING can sometimes feel like a riddle – leaving you hovering over your recycling bins, trying to guess if an item is actually re

NO-NONSENSE SOLUTIONS TO EVERYDAY HASSLES

A round-up of the latest self-build and home renovation news, products and events. By Jennifer Grimble and Joseph Mullane