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There’s a price to pay for everything item of food you buy at the supermarket. That price is not just how much it costs in money but also the food miles involved....

As we all try to lower our carbon footprint, business has a role to play, too. That’s especially true of the retailers where we buy things. At supermarkets we’ve...

We’re a consumer society. These days it often seems, we live to buy things. But the more new things we buy, the more energy is used in making and...

You might well be wondering how what you eat can affect your carbon footprint or even if it can. But the truth is that your diet really can have an effect on climate...

The revolution in farm shops and farmers’ markets began about a decade ago. Revolution might seem like a strong term but in many ways, that’s exactly what it was. It was...

There’s no doubt that the popularity of organic food is increasing – you simply have to look at the produce and meat sections of your local...

Everything we buy comes with packaging. The big problem is that there’s generally far too much of it. Often there’s far more packaging than item and we just end up...

Shopping is an activity that we either love or hate but few people can get away without doing on a regular basis. As well as thinking about the...

In the time of most of our great grandmothers, no-one ever used a plastic bag for carrying their shopping. People used baskets or cotton bags or paper bags. The...

The idea behind carbon labelling is to introduce new information onto the labels of food sold in supermarkets to show how much carbon dioxide has been produced in...

Many people cite the need to have a good, balanced diet as they tuck into meat-based meals three times each day but are we looking at ‘balance’...