When it comes to the climate crisis, we’re all now well aware of the detrimental role that the fossil fuel industry has played. …

‘One sec, I’ll just Google it’ — a sentence that we hear on the regular in the internet-driven world of today. In fact, on average each of us makes 3–4 internet searches every single day, with Google being by far the most commonly used search engine. Google receives over 40,000…

Our use of the internet accounts for 3.7% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to Lancaster University researcher Mike Hazas. This is similar to the carbon emissions from the airline industry, and it’s predicted to double by 2025. …

From hustle culture to toxic productivity, there’s a very real dark side to all those self improvement books — The self improvement industry is seeing annual growth of 6%, with an expected value of over $13 billion by 2022. As well as coaching and speakers, much of this spend is on self help books and audiobooks. This growth is being driven primarily by millennials, who are spending twice as…

With growing awareness of the environmental consequences of consumer-driven, wasteful, modern lifestyles has come new approaches to encouraging people to repair and reuse before buying anew. Libraries of Things enable us to borrow seldom-used items for a fraction of the price. The right to repair law is set to be…

Covid-19 may be consuming minds and media right now, but we must not forget that we are also in the midst of another crisis. — Last week a new world record number of daily deaths from Covid-19 was hit, in India. The situation in India is bleak, with rising cases, overflowing hospitals, shortages of oxygen, and mass cremations taking place in car parks to deal with overwhelming piles of bodies. Yet, rewind just a few…

Let’s start with a confession. I’m firmly against capitalism, but I work in marketing. There’s a huge oxymoron at play in my working life. Isn’t there? Marketing is the core enabling force for capitalism. The very aim of marketing is to persuade an audience to do something. Working in marketing…

Why is it that H&M can afford to pay celebrities to endorse its greenwashing marketing campaigns, and yet still refuses to pay factory workers a minimum wage? — H&M has been trying to position itself as a sustainable brand for a while now, most notably through their so-called Conscious Collection, which (quite rightly) got them slapped with a lawsuit in Norway for misleading marketing. Their latest stunt has been their #looopit campaign, which has also marked the launch…

Individual action won’t solve the climate emergency — and we can’t trust the companies that try to persuade us otherwise — Is there any major societal issue other than the climate emergency that we expect individuals to solve? I can’t think of one. We’ve relied on governments and global health organisations to enforce mass rules to reduce the spreading of Covid-19 (to varying effect). …