A recent trip to New York was revealing, not because of the shopping or the food, although these were as varied and wonderful as ever. This time, I was struck by the number of tattoos proudly worn by people from across the social strata. These tattoos were extensive, and showed a permanent commitment to ritual and adornment that clothes cannot and do not involve.

Protecting your skin when the sun's out is more important than you may think. It's easy to be complacent when living in a country that only has a few short months of sporadic sunshine throughout the year but with skin cancer on the rise in the UK it is more important than ever that we slather on the sunscreen and get our skin summer ready

‘Get real’ is an idiom I have never had positive associations with. Its expression passes judgement, conjuring as it does images of one finger-pointing, eyebrow-raising human shadow on a pedestal towering over another. It was a phrase uttered with disapproval by my dad when I told him that I wanted to ‘go grassroots’ and –...

Events in Edmonton take less energy. Canada’s northernmost metropolis is emerging as a leader in sustainable meetings with a customizable program that guides event planners through a series of responsible choices.

My day had been humming like a finely tuned machine. I had just got all my work up to date, the 2012 dates and venue for our festival – Vintage – had been announced, tickets were on sale and all the launch interviews were complete. Taking a bit of a breather with my family, an email popped...

In their family, the art of patchwork is passed down like an heirloom. Sublime speaks to contemporary artist Ustina Yakovleva on merging her creativity with her

Imagine if all of human culture was represented by a single book, and the maximum size of this book was more or less fixed. Each generation would create their own version, but expanding the book would not be an option. If you wanted to add new knowledge, ideas, beliefs and practices, you would have to...

Dairy free desserts may not immediately conjure up images of decadence, even less so when you bring the word 'raw' into the equation. However, over the last few years raw dairy-free vegan desserts have come into their own, spawning a huge following of people who care about what they eat and where it comes from but also want to indulge in a little dessert action now and again

Reese Fernandez travelled frequently as a child, with her missionary mother. After witnessing much suffering, she was inspired to find solutions to the social problems she saw. Fernandez went on to win a scholarship to Ateneo University, where she studied Management. She has since used her skills to train people to become social entrepreneurs, and...

We live in a culture of fast fashion where replacement is king. As consumers, we buy, wear, dispose, and repeat far too often – and it’s driving us towards ecological bankruptcy.

HomeBiogas develops ground-breaking, easy-to-use biogas systems, enabling people and businesses to turn their organic waste into self-made clean energy and fertiliser.

I have always been drawn to the water. I was conceived in room 16 of the art deco Midland Hotel overlooking Morecambe Bay and spent the first part of my life crabbing in Morecambe’s boating pools, digging for ragworm with my Pop on the mussel beds and fishing for flatties off the stone jetty. Some...

Spanning the period from the birth of the State of Israel in 1948 to the talks of the Oslo Peace Agreement in 1994, the story begins when the narrator asserts, ‘I was born in 1973, but my story really begins in 1947.’ Confusingly, Miral (Freida Pinto of Slumdog Millionaire) doesn’t actually appear until a third...

‘Look at the skyline now, it looks like New York!’ boasts our driver, Diogenese, enthusiastically. And so it does, with a distinctly tropical twist, for Panama City has boomed in the last few years. Driven by an ambitious expansion of its famous canal and burgeoning banking and services sectors, Panama’s economy has grown at over...

In a world shamelessly obsessed with economic value, the reasons for protecting the environment still make economic sense. When you factor in the value-added services, such as providing clean water and absorbing carbon dioxide, it is calculated that we lose $2 to $5 trillion annually through forest loss. And that’s just forests. Then there’s climate...

Staged in conjunction with the epic heavyweight title fight ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, the event has since been under-represented, with footage at the time being dedicated to the making of the documentary When We Were Kings. After 35 years in storage, the tapes have been revived by director Jeffrey Levy-...

He is best known as the founder of Traidcraft and the pioneer and champion of fair trade. He also launched the original New Consumer magazine; founded Out of this World, Britain’s first chain of grocery stores selling ‘ethically sourced’ goods; started the consultancy Contraflow (which finds innovative solutions in social business, innovative ethical retailing and...

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Sublime takes to the road, driving from London to the Lake District in a BMW iX electric vehicle to explore how the UK’s charging desert landscape is evolving for those who dare to leave the city in their EVs