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...
The Edible, Biodegradable Carrier Bag That’s Safe for Fish to Eat!
Exciting news for anti-plastic environmentalists, our oceans and marine life: an Indonesian based start-up 'Avani' is on a mission to rid the world of plastic bags, and has developed a 100% biodegradable and edible replacement. This new miracle...
Why Being an Environmentalist is Now Literally a Matter of Life or Death
So far in 2017, 117 environmental defenders have been killed. All over the planet, people dedicating their lives to defend and protect the planet are being murdered in order to silence them. Environmental documentary, Cowspiracy notes that “[m]ore than...
Holiday Deep Blues: Are Cruises Killing Marine Life?
This week saw a humpback whale, thought to be a juvenile, impaled on a Princess Cruises ship: an unanticipated passenger as the ship arrived in Alaska. The 6-metre long humpback was harpooned by the 290-metre ship, ending up lodged on its submerged bow (a...
Aviation or Animals: Who’s to Blame for Staggering Rise in Greenhouse Gases?
Following on from the recent UK plans to scrap petrol and diesel cars from 2040 there is yet more 'flying away' from the main cause of global warming. A recent United Nations report raised concerns that the global aviation sector could consume up to 27% of...
Earth Overshoot Day: We Have Already Used More Energy Than We Can Renew!
Today is a sad day for planet earth, it’s Earth Overshoot Day which means it’s the day in the year by which we have used more energy than the earth can renew in 2017. This day comes every year but this year, it’s the earliest it’s ever been....
McDonald’s Supplier, Tyson Foods Blamed for Largest EVER Ocean Dead Zone
This week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are set to release new information on the planet's largest ever ocean dead zone. Located in the Gulf of Mexico, the impacted area is expected to stand at more than 8,200 square miles big;...
The Earth’s ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ Is Imminent. What Can We Do To Stop It?
A scientific report published earlier this year has warned that the earth’s ‘sixth mass extinction’ is well underway and it’s going to be a lot worse than we thought. In recent years it has becoming increasingly apparent that many of the world’s species...
Small House, Big Impact! How Your Minimalist Home Benefits The Planet
What lengths would you go to to save the planet? Some people think veganism is extreme however one couple have moved their whole life into a 200 square foot ‘tiny home’ and are touring it across North America, as the Creative Animal Foundation, in the...
