This post is sponsored by Panda, all thoughts my own. I love sleep. No matter what’s going on, I always try and prioritise good rest every night. Not only is it a key factor for health, it’s also key for longevity in the often-tiring world of climate justice activism. As we try and create a better world for future generations, rest is vital to pushing back on a culture of rampant capitalism, extraction and overconsumption. Insufficient sleep is a major problem across the world. A lot of this requires systemic solutions to major issues: no one is sleeping soundly when they don’t know when their ..read more

In 2023 scientists estimated that more than 171 trillion pieces of plastic were floating in the world’s oceans, increasing exponentially from 16 trillion pieces in 2005, comprised of both recently discarded plastics and older pieces that have broken down. That year, nations also signed the historic UN High Seas treaty aiming to protect 30% of the oceans by 2030. While this is a major step for systemic action, there’t still a lot that people can look at as individuals too. 80% of marine litter comes from land-based sources finding its way into streams, rivers or drains and ending up in the ocea ..read more

You’ve done it. You’ve bitten the bullet and decided to buy yourself a brand-new mattress. You’ve even decided to buy an ethical and sustainable mattress, as you’ve learned the harm conventional mattresses cause through emitting VOCs and toxic flame retardant chemicals, alongside PVC or vinyl covers that can damage developing reproductive systems and toxic polyurethane foam. But what the hell do you do with your old mattress? The market is overflowing with lower-quality products and 100-day sleep guarantees, leading to people replacing their mattresses much more frequently than they used to. T ..read more

This post was written by Cora Gold, a sustainable living blogger and editor of Revivalist magazine. Connect with Cora on LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter.  Weddings deserve to be celebrated in style, but unfortunately, this can come with a high environmental price tag. Many things may only be used once, and lots of trash will be generated during the reception. However, it is possible to make your special day eco-friendly. Here are 15 tips to inspire you to celebrate your love sustainably. Buy Ethically Sourced Diamonds A sustainably sourced diamond requires et ..read more

Every journey starts with a single step.  It’s an overused quote, a cliche even. Something you normally find adorning walls filled with ‘live laugh love’ posters and plastered across cringe-inducing Facebook posts from your great aunt. But it’s also true. After all, cliches are cliches for a reason. It’s not original, but it’s not incorrect. It’s something I’ve been reflecting on a lot recently in my climate justice journey. The media landscape has shifted dramatically since I started blogging and, as I’ve gotten busier and busier with various work projects, I’ve found myself longing to g ..read more

The Amazon basin supports a staggering 25% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity and more fish species than any other river system. The Kayapó protect the last large block of forest surviving in the highly threatened south-eastern Amazon; at about 40 thousand square miles it’s roughly the size of Iceland. Kayapó communities risk their lives to monitor and protect the forest they live in from deforestation, but there’s constant pressure from illegal invaders seeking to mine, fell trees and farm the land. Like other Indigenous peoples across the world, they’ve entered the role of projectors of ..read more

This post was created in an ongoing collaboration with Eco Origin. All opinions my own. With 2024 firmly under way the resolutions have been set and the habits have had time to build. But it’s not just self-improvement that is expected to increase over the year, it looks like increasing eco-friendly habits and routines is set to be on the rise too. Eco Origin, marketplace for sustainable products for your everyday life, shared with me the top eco-friendly self-care trends they expect to see in 2024. So if you’re now of the people aiming to reduce your impact this year, or still looking for som ..read more

2023 was the hottest year on record.  The effects of the climate crisis, from water shortages to rising food prices, are being felt on every continent. Communities in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Pacific Islands and many others who are getting hit first and worst have done the least to cause it. Burning fossil fuels is the number one cause of the climate crisis. Leading climate scientists and energy experts all agree: we already have more coal, oil and gas than we can ever safely burn, but fossil fuel companies show few signs of slowing.  But we still have time to act. Stopp ..read more

On Sunday, the #StopSUV vote passed in Paris. In a local referendum, 54.6% of voters opted to introduce tripled parking fees for SUVs. While ostensibly a vote on parking fees, this vote was more widely seen as a rejection of SUVs across the city, intended to discourage them from being driven at all (It also amounts to a snub by the host Olympic city to leading Olympic sponsor, Toyota, which is a major manufacturer of SUVs). This follows a trend of decisions in Paris – including increased parking costs, gradually banning diesel vehicles and increased bicycle lane capacity – that suggests more a ..read more

The fossil fuel industry have always been experts when it comes to climate denial, obfuscation and misdirection. But in recent years, as the climate crisis becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, there’s been a change in tactics. This is how the fossil fuel industry lies to you now. The power of social media In a shifting communication landscape, a 2023 study decided to look into the ways the fossil fuel industry communicates directly to the public through social media presence. Acknowledging that oil and gas companies have made a strategic shift away from outright climate denial to more su ..read more