Sustainable diets are becoming a factor that increasing numbers of us consider when doing our weekly food shop. However, it is a pretty complex and confusing concept, with many disagreements over what constitutes a sustainable food. Should we be eating a completely vegan diet? One that only uses local ingredients, including meat? Farmed, wild or […]

Food waste accounts for 8% of carbon emissions according to a UN study*. I’m always seeking to reduce my food waste, from being savvy when buying veg to making use of leftovers and making stock from scraps. I do however like to make juice at home, which produces a not unreasonable amount of pulp that […]

It is Plastic Free July again and 120 million participants are joining in across the globe. With school strikes, the Extinction Rebellion protests and Attenborough mania hitting the news so far, awareness of our impact on the planet is increasing year on year. Where climate change (or, climate emergency, as many are now calling it) […]

You may have seen in the news recently that British mackerel has been stripped of its sustainable status by the MSC. All fisheries in the North East Atlantic area have been suspended due to falling stocks, fish being fished above levels recommended by fisheries scientists alongside low numbers of new fish making it into adulthood […]

Pretty much on the daily I feel a bit of guilt about the impact that I have on the world. Sometimes all that refusing of carrier bags and turning off of lights seems a bit futile compared to everything else that I and others do to harm the planet. Whilst the growing trend for zero […]

Welcome back to my Sustainable Seafood series. In this final part I’ll be addressing climate change and expanding our seafood diets away from just fish. If you didn’t catch the previous posts, you can find them here. I started the seafood sustainability guide because whilst I know seafood can be immensely good for you, it […]

Welcome back to my sustainable seafood guide, which aims to bring clarity to the ins and outs of making more environmentally conscious choices if you choose to eat seafood. I decided to start this series as despite three years training as a marine biologist, I still wasn’t sure whether I should even be eating fish […]

For the last few years, my overarching dietary choices have be made with a pretty much equal split between health and environmental concerns. However, I’ve always found the environmental side of things tricky to broach on this platform. This summer, I started to eat fish again, something I have gone back and forth with several […]