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Planting a few Seeds

Spring is in the air, which means it’s time to dust off your gardening tools and get planting. Helping you do so in an environmentally (and ethically) friendly way,...

Glamorous and Green

As more and more top designers go eco, sustainable fashion is slowly making its way into our wardrobes. Leonie Bennett looks at a few eco-warrior essentials.

On the write track

Nick Livermore reviews a selection of ethical and environmental writing implements.

Into the woods

If the government eventually goes through with banning wood waste from landfill, we’ll need to find something to do with all our waste beams, boards, panels and rafters...

Green clean

Daffodils shooting up at our heels can mean only one thing: spring is around the corner and with it the dreaded Spring Clean. Resource eases the pain with a selection...

After a green fashion

It turns out that sustainability does not necessarily entail fashion sacrifice. Emma Rose discovers five clothing lines that offer ethically-sourced clothes that help...

Street smarts

With the importance of street recycling becoming more widely recognised, local authorities are investing in new and better ways to help people recycle when they’re out...

In the eye of the beholder

In this issue of Resource, we learn that not all ‘organic’ beauty products are as ethically and environmentally divine as they claim. Resource’s ladies wondered how they...

Running on recharge

You might not want to admit it, but the ‘season to be jolly’ is nearly upon us, and if we’ve learnt anything over the years about Christmas, it’s that you need batteries...

A ‘hot to’ of home composting

The benefits of composting are well known. Not only does it reduce the amount of biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) sent to landfill (consequently also reducing the...

On test: Lotions and potions

Take a look at the ingredients on the side of your moisturiser. How many do you recognise? With the skin absorbing about 60 per cent of the ingredients in any beauty...

Back to school

As another summer holiday draws to a close, thoughts turn to the new term’s school kit. Justin Mulcahy takes a look at what’s on offer to an ecologically-sound kid