UK stores hand out more plastic bags than any other country in Europe, but in parts of the country, local people are making a stand against them, says Andrew McCloy
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Surrey was a centre of lavender growing until the First World War, but now efforts are paying off to reintroduce the crop. Helen Gazeley reports
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Are you accumulating carbon-laden air miles? Using up precious local resources abroad? Ignoring local communities? It's time you considered responsible travel, says Gillian Thomas.
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Saving the planet begins at home. Andrew McCloy explains how concerned communities are taking environmental concerns seriously and doing something about them. |
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Catherine Dell reports on the nationwide campaign to declutter our highways and byways. |
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You can stick to your environmental principals even after you die, by asking for a ‘natural’ or ‘green’ funeral, reports Penny Kitchen. |
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The National Forest is nothing if not ambitious. Covering 200 square miles of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire – one of the least-wooded areas of England – it’s the first large-scale, multi-purpose forest created in this country since the Norman Conquest. |
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Have you ever seen bats late on a summer's evening, silently flitting round trees and hedges as they hunt for food? Roosting by day and venturing out at dusk to hunt for insects, they are difficult to see. |
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