The Zero-Waste Vegan Packaging That You Can Eat!
The issue of packaging waste has been increasingly hitting headlines and being brought to the forefront of environmental concerns. More people now are opting to avoid using single-use plastic, with the 'zero-waste' movement on the rise. And now, Evoware, an...
Can This Hybrid Car Concept Make Meat Companies More Sustainable?
Blended, or "hybrid", products have been driven beyond the roads and straight into supermarket aisles: hybrid meat is now a thing. Hybrid products contain animal protein, but also a combination of grains and vegetables, with the intention that these added ingredients...
Fashionable and Functional Vegan Outerwear Range Hits US and Canada
Hoodlamb by Hemp Tailors - a fashion house based in Europe, is now expanding their 100% cruelty-free, vegan-friendly outerwear garment line into North American and Canadian retailers. Hoodlamb specializes in producing high-quality winter wear, particularly...
New Study Shows Increasing Demand for ‘Ethical’ Non Vegan Convenience Food
A Chicago study Ethics on the Go, conducted as part of Culinary Visions Panel's Mindful Dining Initiative project, reports some interesting findings about the way people are increasingly viewing food. The study suggested that those younger than 35 pay the closest...
The Guardian Reports That Livestock Pollution is Worse than Previously Feared
The methane emissions from cattle are a concerning 11% higher than previously estimated, the Guardian reported this morning. While the news of these revised calculations may be seen as somewhat of an 'I told you so' to those advocating a vegan...
5 Fascinating Ways Technology Has Helped to Save Animals
When we think about animal welfare, the industries that typically come to mind as the greatest culprits are food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and fashion. Thankfully, due to technological developments, animal exploitation has become less frequent throughout...
5 Vegan Kickstarter Campaigns Taking Sustainability to the Next Level
Most of us know about today’s problems and challenges when it comes to our daily food, the waste of plastic, and the fast fashion world. By being aware of those problems, there are always moments in which we feel bewildered, maybe helpless, facing all of...
Why is Richard Branson Supporting Virgin’s Misguided Plan Against Global Warming?
Unsurprisingly given the extreme weather conditions many throughout the world have been experiencing, increasing efforts are being made to combat global warming - or at least, efforts are being made to discuss how we can. With Johan Rockstrom's planetary...
Leonardo Di Caprio Grants $20 Million To Help 100 Environmental Charities
The man himself has just announced that the Leonardo Di Caprio Foundation will be donating a whopping grants total sum of $20 million to over 100 various environmental organisations. These organisations have a range of focus causes such as conservational...
Could Switching from Beef to Beans End Our Environmental Worries?
Ecoanxiety: you may have never heard of it, but you've probably felt it. In 2011, the American Psychological Association described this emerging condition as "the dread and helplessness that come with 'watching the slow and seemingly irrevocable impacts of...
5 Easy Ways to Help Stop Plastic Pollution
Plastic pollution has been labelled the most ‘grotesque’ problem facing our world at the moment. With experts estimating that by 2050 the oceans will contain more plastic than fish by weight, it doesn’t look like this environmental disaster is going away....
Going Vegan for One Week Saves Enough CO2 to Fly to the Moon and Back says London Economic
Previous studies have shown that adopting a vegan lifestyle is the best way to combat water and air pollution, global warming, ozone damage, ocean dead zones. Oxford University have even suggested that going plant-based could save the world. Now, The London Economic...
Vegan ‘Meat’ Company Introduces 100% Compostable Packaging!
'No Evil Foods', a plant-based 'meat' startup founded in 2014 by Sadrah Schadel and Mike Woliansky, is doing yet more to help the planet. 'No Evil Foods' is already promoting delicious plant-based alternatives to meat and sharing with its customers the reasons why we...
Palm Oil: Is it Vegan or Should We Palm it Off?
Palm oil: it is a hugely contentious issue within vegan circles, with some claiming that it cannot be compatible with a cruelty free lifestyle, while others claim that since it is not an animal product, its use is justified. Mainstream media has even begun discussing...
How Going Vegan and Other Small Changes Can Protect the Ozone
Happy World Ozone Day! Actually, it might be more fitting to say, 'Unhappy World Ozone Day' because we are destroying it - and that's hardly something to celebrate. But, there is something we can do! Here's the situation: Our ozone - the...
What Does Greenpeace Think About Veganism?
Today is National Greenpeace Day, a day when we celebrate this organisation renowned as the greatest defender of the natural world and its inhabitants, admired by environmentalists worldwide for the work of its brave activists. Its mission statement is:...
Morals or Flavour: Do We Have to Choose Between Them to Save The Planet?
This morning, Toronto Star journalist Emma Teitel wrote that "veganism's moral high ground needs some flavour to save [the] planet." Ignoring the obvious pun about vegans not knowing flavour and living off grass and cardboard, Teitel may have touched upon...
Fridge Cameras Fighting the War on Food Waste
The war against food waste has a new weapon, and it comes in the form of a £99 fridge camera. Statistics from the waste advisory body Wrap show that the average British family throws away £700 worth of food every year. Among the most wasted are...
Mars’ CEO Ignores Palm Oil Devastation With New Plans To Fight Climate Crisis
‘This is a critical moment,’ says CEO and President of Mars Grant F. Reid. ‘Never before has the responsibility been greater for business to step up and help create a healthy planet, and a healthy society.’ Mars, owners of some of the world’s most famous...
Zero Waste Week: Top Tips to Reduce Your Waste
This week has been Zero Waste Week! If you’ve been following our vlogs, you might have seen one or two tips about how to reduce your waste already. Zero Waste Week sets you the challenge of living without waste for a week, something that many people do all...
Farming Versus Ocean Fishing: Is Ethical Seafood Possible?
"It's caught by line, not net, so it's far more ethical"; "if it's farmed it's okay because there isn't any wasted by-catch." Most of us a are brought up believing that eating fish is essential for a healthy brain and that eating fish is somehow kinder...
How to Make Waves This “Sea Week”
This week is (Save The) Sea Week, an annual celebration of our oceans and a reminder that they need our help. Last week, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd reported that Japan's use of military-grade technology to track its ships has ended its...
What’s Zero Waste Week Got to Do With Being Vegan?
Lauren Singer, the woman behind Trash is for Tossers, released a video earlier this year showing the world all of her trash from the last four years. Why would she do that? Well, because it all fits into a single mason jar! With Zero Waste Week...
A Guide To The Stylish World Of Vegan Leather – With Doshi
So, you've just oogled over the designs at New York Fashion Week, and are now in the mood to splurge on the latest trends. If leather and suede bags are your thing, but supporting the leather industry totally isn't, worry not, as there is a whole...
An Open Letter to Sir David Attenborough: Why Planet Earth Needs You to Go Vegan
Sir David Attenborough: environmental and wildlife broadcast legend, British hero, and... denier of the single biggest threat to wildlife and the planet? Or, just oblivious? This week, Attenborough told the Guardian newspaper that he is more...
Why Are Global Meatpackers Like Tyson Expanding If Veganism Is Growing?
Current predictions estimate that by 2050 the world’s population will be just under 10 billion. According to a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, during this time the average amount of meat consumed by individuals on earth will increase. These...
How Our Love of Sushi is Driving the Bluefin Tuna to Extinction
Sushi, once the object of squeamish faces and 'but it's raw!' exclamations, is now a must-have in any supermarket aiming to impress the 'cultured millennial' and deluxe sushi lovers. The sushi industry has been booming in recent years and continues to...
Why the World Needs You to Stop Sucking (Immediately!)
No one wants to ‘draw the short straw’ in any situation. But every time we accept a straw with a drink, our planet and its irreplaceable animal inhabitants are having the short straw drawn for them, and suffering because of our choice to use that...
6 Ways You Can Help Save the Elephant Before It’s Too Late
Notorious for being practically everyone's favourite animal, elephants even have their own 'day' (World Elephant Day). Although many of us claim to love these majestic animals, treatment of elephants throughout the world is disturbingly poor. Elephants are...
Inspiring Vegan Athlete Reveals Why She Stands Against Animal Agriculture
Self proclaimed eco-athlete, Donica Shouse is a professional paddle boarder from Hawaii who identifies as someone 'willing to push for what's right but do it with peace and love'. Like more and more athletes nowadays, Shouse's performance is fuelled solely...
