Category: Greener Life

Cocoa tree

Chocolate Footprint: Trees Versus Chocolate

Much of the deforestation in the Côte d’Ivoire is said to be illegal and due to farming cocoa. Farmers will clear forests to plant new...
Glacier

Water-Wise Landscaping Tips for World Water Day

Our glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate, and the impact on our plant and its inhabitants is severe....
Wildfire

What Can Travellers Do to Help Wildfire-Stricken Areas?

Beyond the obvious destruction caused to trees and vegetation, which negatively affects pollution levels, wildfires have a staggering impact on ecosystems as a whole....
Christmas tree

Christmas Trees: Real or Fake?

There is a big question around whether a real Christmas tree is better for the environment or an artificial one. There are several things to...
Urban trees and building work

A Guide to Safeguarding Our Urban Forests

As our urban areas continue to expand at unprecedented rates, we face a critical juncture in the preservation of these essential resources....
Wind turbines and a car.

Carbon Offsetting Versus Reducing Emissions

The higher your emissions, the more expensive it will be to offset them. What companies are essentially doing are putting a voluntary tax on themselves....

Replace Your Christmas Tree

We produce 30% more waste at Christmas than at any other time of the year, many of these being trees....

The Benefit of Urban Forests

Researchers believe that climate change and expanding built-up areas will intensify urban heat islands (UHI), and could contribute to global warming....
7 Top Tips for Sustainable Forest and Woodland Photography

7 Top Tips for Sustainable Forest and Woodland Photography

While photography is great at highlighting the need for sustainability in forests and woodland, there are also ways we can improve the ways we shoot...

Plastic Free July

Hello again you lovely lot, I don’t know about you, but I can’t quite believe how quickly July has passed us by. So I thought...