DolceLoca If you thought a typical Mayor wears a big hat and shakes a bell, like a town crier, meet a more visionary kind of Mayor in the US city of Philadelphia (the ‘city of brotherly love’ is just 1.5 hours from New York). Waste Free Philly is the website of a new kind of…
over the border
plant-based French recipe books
The most popular meal now is not roast dinner but balti curry (born in Birmingham!) Good news for foodies, but this means supermarkets take advantage of different tastes by offering plastic-wrapped ready meals made with factory-farmed ingredients, palm oil and refined sugar, and also profit-driven food sends people on low incomes deeper into food poverty….
what we can learn from Iceland
Clare Caulfield Iceland is possibly the greenest country on earth. A peaceful place, it has no army, airforce or navy. It has also taken the tough decisions that the UK government won’t take. It supplies all households with green energy and hot water, and it’s no coincidence that the greenest country is also one of…
what we can learn from Finland
Tatiana from Cologne Finland is bordered by many countries and lies on the Baltic sea, its main cities being Helsinki, Tampere (stunning architecture and lakes) and Espoo (95 nearby lakes and 165 Baltic Sea islands). The language is notoriously difficult (unrelated to any language bar Hungarian): Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas is the longest word in Finnish with 61…