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Making its mark quietly: Quiet Mark

The sound of silence.. Quietmark is an organisation which urges us to make time for silence and to choose products in our home which are quiet. 

Fans for fans of quiet fans

Quiet Mark is an organisation that works with manufacturers to get them to engineer quietness into their products. And if there's one thing everyone says would be less annoying if it were quieter, it's the fan, now crucial to getting through a British summer.

Deco eco-friendly Christmas gift guides: practical presents

Eco friendly Christmas gifts can be pretty or practical..or both. Choose from linen and wool fabrics, FSC-wood products and ideally gifts made in your country. We love Space 1a in London for its organic cotton homewares and Helen Round in Cornwall for her linen products. Also check out Cactus Tongue if you have a bicycle you need to hang up...

Biodegradable teabags from Dorset Tea

biodegradable teabags from dorset tea. bags contain no plastic and can be industrially composted

GODAN promotes open data to achieve food security

Miscanthus bales could decarbonise construction

Miscanthus is a perennial carbon-negative renewable energy crop grown on around 8,000 hectares of low-grade marginal land in the UK. It's been identified as having outstanding building credentials and excellent insulation value and following a successful test building last year, the partners are building a Miscanthus bale house that will still be standing in 100 years.

Moral fibre: choose organic cotton

Fashion industry organic cotton products for  underwear and babyclothes. In general, where fashion goes interiors are sure to follow, for  ethical and healthy choice for their furnishing fabrics still face an uphill struggle. Organic cotton fabric cover chairs, cushions and lampshades. Conventionally produced cotton can be bad for environment.. New fabric in sustainable wool and stinging nettle fibre. Ethical revolution public is generally becoming more eco-conscious. Hard-to-find items such as organic lace. 

 

Cotton: it's a dirty business

conventional cotton is a dirty business and not eco friendly. cultivation uses huge quantities of water and pesticides, which damage workers' health

Strike a pose: eco friendly yoga mats

The drive to leave plastic behind is gathering force and lots of areas of life we don't associate with plastic are keen to do their bit. Such as yoga, which does require a mat if you're doing it in a gym or hall with a hard floor.

Yoga Design Lab, based in Bali, launched in 2014 to produce beautiful designs that didn't cost the earth. The product range has grown and now includes towels. The brand's USP is the marrying of appealing design with eco friendliness - the eco credentials coming from its use of natural rubber and recycled plastic.

Mall Galleries: The Natural Eye 2020

Flora and fauna can cheer even most taciturn among us, so if you're stuck in a concrete hell, try to get along to Mall Galleries for The Natural Eye exhibition. Or failing that see all the works of art online.

This being the year of covid, you will need to book a slot to visit and social distancing, face coverings, hand sanitizer...yeh..you know the drill.

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