Pressing Time

Pressing Time

My friend Mike Dibb has been sorting through his past. We’d worked together, moons ago, on a TV series with John Berger, About Time, and now here we are in his kitchen, prising the rusted screws of a sturdy flower press he’d made for his children some 40 years before...
What’s the future of faux foods?

What’s the future of faux foods?

Industrial quantities of palm oil substitute are now being made in the lab. While this is certainly good news for Orangutans and their fast-vanishing forests, are faux products like oils and plant-based meats good for us and nature? What seems good now is often found...
Black becomes the new green in the UK countryside

Black becomes the new green in the UK countryside

Large tracts of Britain’s green and pleasant land are being covered in black glass. These are solar farms providing much-needed clean energy, but is the climate emergency sufficiently severe to industrialise our countryside? Drive through the rolling fields outside...
Why the Prince should be thanking Putin

Why the Prince should be thanking Putin

  While necessary and inspiring, Prince William’s annual Earthshot prize demonstrates our painfully slow progress at finding technical solutions to our environmental problems.  “The Earth is at a tipping point and we face a stark choice: either we continue as we...
How UN conventions make a better moisturizer

How UN conventions make a better moisturizer

  Your rainforest plant-based miracle moisturizer feeds your skin but also carries cash to the people who protect the trees that provide active ingredients. We can thank a thing called the Nagoya Protocol for making our daily moisturizing an ethically soothing...