Consumption

The UK's consumption of cattle products, cocoa, palm oil and soy is putting enormous pressure on forests around the world.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency made one thing clear: we have to radically rethink the way we work.

The Share Shed is a library of things that is changing how people think about consumption and engage with each other at a community level.

How can we reduce consumption as much as necessary in a socially-sustainable way, while still safeguarding human needs and social security?

Circular economy strategies essential as reuse of resources falls to 8.6 percent.

Burning toxic electronic waste fills the air of Ghana's capital city with dangerous and nauseating dioxins.

Embracing a ‘simpler way’ is necessary for a transition to a just, sustainable, and flourishing world. 

Making a serious difference to plastic pollution is only possible by tackling over-consumption.

In the second part of his interview, Thich Nhat Hanh explains why you don't need to be a Buddhist monk to give up an addiction to a high-consumption lifestyle

Did you know that Green & Black's aren't quite as ethical as they'd like you to think? Nor did Mark Newton until the Good Shopping Guide came his way

Clear and well written, Julie Hill's opus sheds light on the issues of waste and consumption but provides solutions that are too simplistic to be of real use, argues Ruth Styles

Eifion Rees talks to the Compassion in World Farming veteran and co-editor of The Meat Crisis - a shocking new book that exposes the range of environmental and health threats facing us if we don't kick our addiction to meat

The waste warrior behind the You Tube hit and now book 'The Story of Stuff', on banning children's advertising, making manufacturers responsible for waste and shifting our values

The bulk of our motives for buying green are selfish, say psychologists. So would appealing to social positioning help shift behaviours better than moralising?

It's an unfashionable idea, but would a return to hiring products and services rather than buying them help us reduce our ecological footprint and turn businesses green?

BBSRC-funded website backlash against sustainable watchdog’s call to reduce meat consumption

Last month my friend Satish Kumar said in Sustained magazine that the happiest people are those who live close to the land and use their hands – craftspeople and farmers. As a naturalist, keen gardener and soon-to-be vegetable-plot devotee, this resonates with me.

The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment is the latest offering from Canadian academic and former chess champion, Peter Dauvergne.

Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption…

Don’t be afraid of the recession, says Andrew Simms , it may just be the lucky break we need to get our heads around a more sane economy and a better quality of life

Jonathon Porritt, chairman of the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, has called for the UK citizens to shop less or ‘the planet will go pop.’

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has delivered the final blow to climate-change sceptics. The word its report uses is 'unequivocal'. But is the world prepared to accept the results of this judgement?

Measure for measure, GDP is the world’s hidden accounting scandal, the one that neither governments nor media will touch. Jonathan Rowe asks why we worship such a false idol