pebble magazine • 26th July 2017

Discover London's first zero waste food hall

Talk about retail therapy. If you despair at the pile of plastic that’s immediately created when you get home from the supermarket, then it’s time to rethink the way you shop and head to new zero waste food market, Bulk Market.

pebble magazine • 25th May 2017

Are insects the new sushi?

There’s no point skirting around it, insects have a yuk factor. But with over one million types in total and over 2,000 eaten all over the world, it’s difficult to come up with an answer to the question, “But what do they taste like?”

pebble magazine • 19th January 2017

Brilliant craft beers made from waste

We might be post-peak craft beer (and possibly post-beard) but independent breweries are the ones pushing what’s possible in terms of sustainable sips. From alternative energy to reimagining the wastewater system, brewers are bonkers for new bio and eco processes.

pebble magazine • 15th January 2017

Fab City: The global project that is developing a local future

Imagine a future where your furnishings and clothes are made locally by artisans and makers who live on your street. Your food is grown a rooftop away and your energy is created by your immediate neighbours. For Fab City this hyper-local future is not a fantasy, it’s the way to make cities sustainable.

pebble magazine • 4th January 2017

5 minute guide to clean beauty

We’ve had clean food, now comes clean beauty – but before you sigh and roll your eyes, just think about it for a second. Doesn’t it make sense that what we put on our skin is as nourishing as what we put in our mouths? Especially if we can whip it up pretty easily at home.

pebble magazine • 3rd January 2017

Documenting food waste heroes with Food Is

Love food? Hate waste? So does Chris King, a photographer who’s set up Food Is, a website that gathers together positive stories from people working to pick, pack, cook or deliver food deemed to be no good. He talks to us about the issue of food waste and what needs to be done to drag the food industry out of the landfill and into the larder.

pebble magazine • 3rd January 2017

Riz - tales of sustainable swimwear

Five years ago Riz Smith decided to take on the world of men’s swimwear, creating a style of boardshorts that would be beautiful and feature the kind of tailoring that Saville Row would be proud of, but also founding (with his business partner Ali Murrell) Riz, a sustainable swimwear company with soul.

pebble magazine • 29th December 2016

Check in: stay in Sweden's ICEHOTEL

This is why you come - for the art suites. In the original ICEHOTEL, there are around 20 such suites, each sculpted like a vague lingering dream.

pebble magazine • 28th December 2016

The best eco-travel ideas for 2017

Eco-travel - while many have been spouting its importance for years - 2017 is the year it goes mainstream.

pebble magazine • 21st December 2016

The British gin brand saving the juniper bushes

While the craft gin boom sees no sign of slowing down and botanicals get ever more inventive, the humble juniper bush barely gets a mention. But Hepple gin, based out on the Northumberland moors, is staking its future in gin by staking out juniper seedlings.

pebble magazine • 20th December 2016

5 minute guide to Scottish eco-lodges

"There are two seasons in Scotland, June and winter." Billy Connelly is about right. While Scotland might be nippy this time of year, the weather's no excuse not to head north.

pebble magazine • 8th December 2016

Sabi Sabi Earth Lodge review

Sabi Sabi Game Reserve’s Earth Lodge is not the kind of safari camp you see on TV. Luxurious but modernist, subtle not colonial it’s not even visible as you arrive through the South African bush.

pebble magazine • 5th December 2016

Explore South Africa's Soweto by bike

Soweto is the only place with a street where two Nobel Peace Prize winners have lived. Named the ‘Beverley Hills of Soweto’ drop by to see Desmond Tutu’s place as well as Nelson Mandela’s house. He lived there from 1946 until the 1990s and it’s now a museum.

pebble magazine • 10th November 2016

Ethical jeans with a London postcode

Each pair of Blackhorse Lane jeans is made by hand using 24 processes and 14 different machines that clack away loudly in the workshop.

pebble magazine • 10th November 2016

Save the bees: don’t be an urban beekeeper

Bee populations are in decline. Battered by disease, pesticides and a loss of habitat, we know bees need our help. But what should we be making a beeline for?

pebble magazine • 9th November 2016

Behind the bins at Silo

Plant terrorists. Pirate ships filled with coffee. Sourdough Jedi training. Silo owner, Douglas McMaster’s mind is a breath of fresh air in a ‘seasonal’-littered fog created by hip looking restaurants desperate to find an environmental USP

pebble magazine • 9th November 2016

First time farmers: swap the suburbs for soil

How often do you stare out the window imagining a life where you grow your own food, are your own boss and have a more natural, healthy way of living? Yeah, we feel you.

pebble magazine • 9th November 2016

Click for trees: the sustainable search engine

Set up in 2009 by Christian Kroll, Ecosia is an independent search engine in an age where we’ve almost forgotten that Google is a brand name not a verb.

pebble magazine • 7th November 2016

Boring Britain? We think not

Think Britain is boring? Think again. Our coastlines might not be palm fringed and our mountains might not be snow-capped, but that doesn’t mean Britain can’t rival more exotic locations when it comes to wanting a nature-filled retreat.

pebble magazine • 4th November 2016

Proud Pour: wine that saves the world

An award-winning wine that also saves the environment? It’s the ultimate in multi-tasking. Proud Pour uses the profits from each bottle of Californian Sauvignon Blanc it sells to restore wild oysters in bays on the American coast. One bottle, 100 oysters.

pebble magazine • 2nd November 2016

ReGen's high-tech eco-homes

Housing. It’s often followed by the words ‘crisis’, ‘problem’ or ‘timebomb’. Across the globe more of us live in cities than not, swelling our metropolises and pushing up prices seemingly without end.

pebble magazine • 30th October 2016

Ernest in London

795 million will go hungry tonight. Global poverty, inequality, homelessness and war - there are endless reasons why people aren't sitting down to a decent meal. Overwhelming and complex it’s hard to know where to start to help. Well, how about close to home? Ernest, an ‘incubator’ style community enterprise, looks to help ease food poverty at the local level with lashings of community spirit.

pebble magazine • 30th October 2016

Mamukko sets sail with Hugo Boss

For award-winning Irish upcycling brand Mamukko, ‘bags for life’ are a way of life. Since 2011 Hungarian brothers Attila and Levi Magyar have made small, unique runs of bags from recycled leather and salvaged sails.

pebble magazine • 30th October 2016

Ethical underwear: 8 brands that get it right

It’s all pants. No one really loves underwear shopping, but what if your next purchase of socks, pants or bras could help others or the environment?