Creating a floral wreath is the perfect slow living project. It’s a particularly mindful activity that requires time, patience and creativity – especially if you’re drying your own foliage. Decorating ...
There has been something of a renaissance for dried flowers and foliage. A clever way to extend the life of cut flowers and add natural elements to rooms with low ...
How sustainable are the clothes you wear and the textiles you fill your home with? The social and environmental impact of fast fashion and the textile industry is multi-faceted. It ...
Around a third of all food produced for human consumption is either wasted or lost. Food waste is generally understood as food that is fit for human consumption which is ...
Why are you really buying that new top? Is it because you need it, or, do you just need a quick mood boost? The minimalist mindset raises these kinds of ...
Thinking of dressing up for Halloween? New research by Hubbub and the Fairyland Trust shares the scary reality of the textile and plastic waste produced for this annual celebration. After ...
Staycation (n) – A holiday spent in one’s home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions. Research from Barclays’ The Great ...
Our appetite for shopping has grown dramatically over the past few decades. Between 1996 and 2012, the amount of clothes bought per person in the EU rose by a whopping ...
In 2001, research that took place at New York’s prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art found that visitors spent, on average, just 27.2 seconds looking at a painting. In 2017, the ...