Op-Ed

I’ve been thinking back on the last few months, about what’s been happening in fashion, what I’ve bought, indie makers setting up selling masks, and garment workers. The thing that ties them all together is value. At almost the very…

As we head towards week five of lockdown in the UK, conversation is turning to what we’re all going to do when everything is ‘back to normal’. It’s been the subject of call-ins on the radio, posts on Instagram and threads on Twitter. In lots of ways it’s really comforting…

I can’t quite believe I’m typing this seeing as it’s still somewhere around May in my brain, but it’s nearly Christmas. Mariah Carey is watching her bank balance gain multiple extra zeroes at an exponential rate as we all try and…

I imagine I seem, to an outsider, quite eco-friendly. I don’t buy fast fashion, I buy second hand, I don’t shop a lot, I buy unwrapped veg at markets, I’ve started growing my own, I use refillable options as opposed…

Last January, I wrote a post about my struggle to decide whether or not to buy second hand animal products as a vegan. I was torn about whether or not I felt I could morally and ethically buy second hand…

I’ve been a little quiet on here over the past few months. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, I launched this website with the intention of expanding my writing career and it worked! Since I re-designed and relaunched the…

Approximately once every six seconds, a writer or an influencer or a stranger in the street will tell you to buy a reusable coffee cup. This is good advice because single use coffee cups are pollution-in-waiting. We’re using 16 billion…

Doubtless, you’ll have noticed it’s 2019 now. That came round quickly didn’t it? 2018 was an enormous year for sustainability (more on that below) and, if things go right, 2019 might just be even bigger…

I pitched this (or something along these lines) in January just after the study came out and it didn’t get picked up. I then kept thinking about it but didn’t really do anything with the information. Maybe I forgot I…

Although ‘buy less stuff’ will probably be carved into my gravestone because I say it about as often as I blink, I don’t just spend my days sitting in a tranquil, empty white room being a pure anti-capitalist, unburdened by…