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Ethical investing
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How can ethical investing practices such as divestment from fossil fuels help you and the world?
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Make your home an eco-friendly haven
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Renovations large and small can make your home a more eco-efficient, healthier and happier place. SIMON WEBSTER finds out how.
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It’s a jungle in here
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Our living rooms are being taken over by plants – and it’s good for us in many different ways! Justin Russell shares his indoor plant care tips to help you get started.
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Eat your colours!
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Lentil Purbrick investigates the secret health-promoting components in the colours of fruit and vegetables.
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Green cleaning
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Jessamy Miller has been making her own green cleaning products for years. Here’s her tips to get you started in your own home.
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Zest of life
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Lemon-scented plants bring extra zing to your garden, food and life writes Penny Woodward.
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Spiders are special
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Look after your spiders says Penny Woodward, the vast majority are harmless and all are beneficial.
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Gardens for dementia
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Penny Woodward says to grow an array of coloured and scented plants for loved ones with dementia.
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Visiting Tassie’s Tall Ones
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Tap into joy, wonder, curiosity and compassion by walking in a tall forest, says Dr Reese Halter.
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On regenerative farming and gardening
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Is the term 'regenerative' in danger of becoming a new buzzword? Justin Russell investigates.
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Are we poisoning our children?
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Andre Leu is the author of 'Myths of Safe Pesticides' (2014, Acres USA) and now an updated and rewritten version that focuses on the effects of chemicals on our babies and children – 'Poisoning our Children'. The title is dramatic, but like climate change, Leu feels there is no time to waste in raising attention to these problems that grow in magnitude with every passing minute. Here in an edited extract, he continues our discussion on the health effects of chemicals.
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Diversity is the key
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Penny Woodward explains how diversity is essential for healthy gardens, parks, farms and wild environments.