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Ethical and green living

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October 2026

  • Clare Naylor smiles in a garden chair beside her home's heat pump unit

    The zero-bills home: how one family is beating the energy price hikes

    The Naylors’ four-bedroom home in Milton Keynes acts like a mini-power station after retrofitting solar panels, a battery and a heat pump

September 2026

  • A charging cable connects a roadside charging point to an electric car on a leaf-covered street

    Three-quarters of UK’s popular plug-in hybrid cars unable to use rapid chargers

  • Exterior of the arrivals terminal, which has a curved roof and glass facade. Plants are growing in the foreground surrounding the building

    The alternatives
    ‘We wanted to prove we didn’t need air conditioning’: the airport cooled by natural ventilation

  • Close-up of a blue GoGet car-share car's rear bumper with logo and license plate

    Change by degrees
    When sharing is caring: how car share schemes cut costs and emissions

  • Two female athletes lie laughing on a sports court safety mat, arms raised

    The Filter
    Are you washing your sportswear wrong? An expert guide to making it last longer

  • Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Carbon fever’ threatens hard-won Indigenous rights in Bolivian Amazon

  • Change by degrees
    Hide and chic: are clothes and apparel made from alternative leathers better for the environment?

  • Change by degrees
    Don’t drain the budget: how to save on water heating costs

August 2026

  • Eve Ogden Schaub smiles, holding a pitchfork beside a basket of flax fiber she grew

    ‘I wanted to find the slowest fashion imaginable’: the woman growing her own dress

  • Laundry detergent products including green pods, a blue washing ball, and liquid bottles

    The Filter
    Which eco-friendly laundry detergents actually clean your clothes? I put 11 to the test

  • A woman pours dried food from a paper bag into a glass jar among labeled pantry jars

    The Filter UK newsletter
    From homemade yoghurt to shaving bars: eco-friendly swaps that helped you spend less

    Newsletter
  • A Michelin man hot air balloon in Switzerland.

    Notes and queries
    If all car tyres were filled with CO2, would this cut atmospheric carbon significantly?

  • Notes and queries
    Readers reply: Is it inevitable that consumerism will literally fill up the planet?

  • Fantasy house hunt
    Eco homes that can stay cool for sale in England and Wales – in pictures

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  • Notes and queries
    Is it inevitable that consumerism will literally fill up the planet?

  • Change by degrees
    Bin sins: common recycling mistakes and how to avoid them

  • Burnham criticised for EV and North Sea approach amid climate crisis

  • Searches for UK homes with air conditioning more than double

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Too smart to eat? Why octopus farms are such a slippery problem

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