Sustainable living

Home insulation, solar panels and heat pumps will become cheaper to install after the chancellor abolished VAT for energy-saving products for the next five...

My brother once rented a house in Cornwall for Christmas and did a lot of research to source a locally bred, free-range turkey. He even rang the farm from...

A “nappy tax” could be imposed to stem the tide of millions of disposable nappies contaminating thousands of tonnes of recycling in the UK. With mountains of...

I have three lockdowns to thank for my increased awareness of where my family’s rubbish goes. As restrictions set in weekly trips to the local civic amenity...

Being green is now mainstream. Only woolly hatted hippies used to cycle, recycle and eschew meat but practically every household in the UK now dabbles in all...

Should David Beckham buzz off? The former footballer, who has invested heavily in life as a simple countryman, took up beekeeping last year . His wife,...

It’s been the lockdown project to end all lockdown projects. The architect Piers Taylor has spent most of the past year retrofitting his home, Moonshine, in...

The clocks have gone forward, the days are getting longer and spring is in the air. For more and more people, it is time to get planting. Gardening saw a...

The property industry has joined a growing backlash over the lack of green measures in the budget. Despite the government’s hopes of a “green industrial...

So much of Christmas is about nostalgia: the crackle of the fire, the smell of the pine needles, the taste of homemade Christmas pudding. I was incredibly...