When we were sourcing our Woodland Coffee packaging it amazed me to see how little plastic packaging is actually recyclable and how challenging it can be to ensure that it actually can be recycled. For us, recyclability is not just that it can be notionally recycled...
The red berries and thorny green leaves of the holly tree are iconic colours of Christmas and the winter solstice dating back since early civilisation. Lots of folklore and myth surround the holly tree; a tree that comes into its own when most of the rest of us are...
There is something very magical amount the smell of a real Christmas tree at this time of year, a delight to the senses and for many of us it evokes nostalgic memories of past years. When I was growing up we had a very plastic looking Christmas tree that got bit...
The Gaggia Radiosa is a smart looking coffee machine, ideally suited to an office environment that needs to impress with the quality of coffee drinks and is also easy to work with. Fitted with self cleaning programmes, the Radiosa looks after its own maintenance. The...
‘Beware of the Tree Taliban’ I was warned recently by a well-regarded (and funny) ‘tree enthusiast’ Baffled by his meaning he explained that there is a small section of the environmental lobby that only want native woodland planted please and all other trees are a...
Did you know that waste coffee thrown into your general waste is 25 times more powerful and destructive than the carbon emitted from putting it into the compost bin? I think a lot of people (me included!) would not have appreciated the magnitude of this fact. The...
This cheeky girl crept up on me to see what I was doing on my phone and I was lucky (and quick enough) to get a snap of her. The urban fox comes in for a hard time with some but I love that they form part of the tapestry of biodiversity in our urban landscape. When...
Coffee, one of the world’s most traded commodities, is the economic pillar of countries throughout Latin America, Asia and Africa. However, farmers in these coffee-growing regions face many challenges, including poverty, commodity price fluctuations and increasingly...
