We try before you buy: ALEXANDRIA DALE picks the best green options as Lady Amelia Windsor launches her own eco trainers By Alexandria Dale For The Daily Mail Published: 23:25 GMT, 30 December 2020 | Updated: 23:25 GMT, 30 December 2020 water-repellent merino wool keeps feet warm. Wool Runner Mizzles, allbirds.co.uk, 5/5 Shop Made using wood … Read more
Green campaigners last night vowed to keep fighting a third runway at Heathrow after it was dramatically cleared for take-off. They claimed that the £14billion project may never see the light of day despite the Supreme Court overturning an earlier judgment against it. Friends of the Earth pledged to ‘fight it all the way’ while environmental … Read more
Greta Thunberg said she is ‘honoured’ by reports that Amazon considers her environmental activism a threat to their business. The 17-year-old climate change activist urged Amazon to ‘reconsider its priorities’ following reports of the online retail giant’s ‘obsessive monitoring of organized labor and social and environmental movements’. Leaked internal Amazon reports from 2019 claimed that Amazon hired … Read more
Stone me! Can this eco tycoon REALLY conjure up ‘green’ diamonds… out of thin air? Eco energy tycoon Dale Vince makes diamonds out of thin air in secret process He has likened the concept behind his so-called ‘Sky Diamonds’ to alchemy The stones are expected to sell for around the same price as natural diamonds … Read more
The plan was to give 600,000 households £2 billion to make energy-saving improvements and create work for 100,000 tradesmen. But the Government’s Green Homes Grant scheme has got off to a stuttering start – with thousands set to miss out thanks to a multitude of problems. The multi-billion-pound scheme, which has been rushed through in … Read more
£5bn cost of the wind turbine fiasco: Botched eco scheme will push up household bills for 20 years after blundering officials set high subsidy rate Turbine-owners in Northern Ireland were paid over the odds in energy subsidies One turbine reaps £375,000 a year yet only produces electricity worth £51,000 Last week, Boris Johnson hailed wind … Read more
Scientist is fined £105 for taking part in eco protests at printing site that cost publishers £1.2m Dr Janna Goldstein was among more than 50 activists who blockaded print plant Protest took place in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, to highlight ‘climate crisis’ The illegal protest prevented 1,100 retailers from receiving newspapers By Andrew Levy For The Daily … Read more
What brass! Eco peer who runs oligarch’s giant metals firm pollutes House of Lords rules By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:15 BST, 4 October 2020 | Updated: 01:17 BST, 4 October 2020 Lord Barker of Battle took a break from running oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s giant metals firm last week to deliver … Read more
Quorn ad is rapped for eco claims: Meat replacement company’s boast that its rice pot helps cut consumer’s carbon footprint is ruled misleading by watchdog The advert claimed the Quorn rice pot helps cut consumer’s carbon footprint Quorn, which makes meat replacement products, put out the TV advert in April Advertising Standards Authority said it … Read more
Once you pop, you can’t recycle: Pringles tubes get eco redesign as its metal base, plastic cap and foil-lined cardboard sleeve make it the ‘number one recycling villain’ Pringles tube could change after criticism that it was too difficult to recycle Recycling Association says plastic cap and metal base make it ‘recycling villain’ Kellogg’s is testing … Read more