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Can you have a more sustainable Christmas without being a Christmas grinch? We think you can! We’ve put together some gift inspiration to help keep waste to a minimum this Christmas.

Next Friday is the shopping event of the year, otherwise known as Black Friday. Whilst most companies take the opportunity to increase sales and get rid of as much unwanted stock as possible, for sustainable brands who encourage conscious consumption, it’s not so simple.

Over the last fifteen years, clothing production has nearly doubled. According to WRAP ‘the value of unused clothing in wardrobes has been estimated at around £30 billion. It is also estimated that £140 million worth of clothing goes into landfill each year.’ Put another way, every three out of five garments purchased will end up in landfill within a year. This is shocking, if you take a moment to think about how clothes are made (nearly all by hand), and what they are made from. It’s putting a huge strain on our natural resources. It wasn’t so long ago that we had...

To acknowledge Mental Health Awareness week, we caught up with our friend and Trainer in Mental Health Emma, to talk about how spending time in the outdoors and surrounded by nature can have significant benefits to wellbeing.