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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
 Fashion is often blamed for several ethical and environmental impacts of throwaway clothes, culture and obsession with latest trends. In 2009, the Sustainable Clothing Roadmap was launched to improve environmental and ethical fashion footprints. The roadmap aims to address social and environmental issues in the clothing supply chain and encourage consumers to be proud to wear, keep, ethically sourced, low impact clothing.
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
 Mother’s day, like so many notable days of celebration, is a
nice idea that has become rampantly commercialised. The lady who
campaigned to have the day be remembered as an honour and celebration of
mothers and motherhood in the United States by 1914, Anna Jarvis, became so disillusioned by the 1920’s with the holiday that she spent the rest
of her life and money campaigning against the holiday.
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 Christine's Tip 19 - My story this week, sustainable developers, is about the practicality of wearing shoes. These days I feel the need to be thrifty yet I can also see the benefit of this in reducing my environmental impacts. Repair shoes..don't just go out and buy another pair just because the sole is worn or things are scuffed. This goes for you blokes as well.
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 Vitamin D , sometimes known as the sunshine vitamin because the body manufactures it in response to sunlight on the skin, is increasingly being thought of as important in preventing a variety of chronic illnesses. Vitamin D deficiency is now a strong suspect in Scotland's poor health record, which gives it some of the highest rates of heart disease and cancer in Europe and, overall, chronic disease in the world. Another obvious characteristic of Scotland is its weather. Its geography and the Gulf Stream combine to give it a particularly damp, overcast climate where sunlight levels can be as low as parts of the Arctic Circle.
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
 Jonathan Safran Foer's 2009 book Eating Animals could and should put you off factory-farmed meat for life. Interweaving memoir, history, science and philosophy Foer avoids lecturing and surprises with stories of the extent of his research. Many of the facts revealed are simply repulsive. One wonders how many of us already know at least some of this but choose to push it out of mind. The following brief description is of chicken factory-farming in the US but the issues relate to the farming of pigs, cattle, other poultry and fish world-wide. For specific information about the UK contact viva.
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