Perfect for a light lunch, starter or snack: asparagus and artichoke fritters with herby yoghurt, and leek fritters with a lemony, green yoghurt sauce
Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for spring vegetable fritters
‘It’s the industry’s dirty secret’: why fashion’s oversupply problem is an environmental disaster
As many as 40% of clothes made each year – 60bn garments – are not sold. Experts say tackling such obscene waste will require radical changes in production – and legislation
o one knows exactly how many coats, jeans, T-shirts and trainers are produced every year, which means no one knows how many garments remain unsold in warehouses, destined for landfill or destruction.
France’s lower house votes to limit ‘excesses’ of fast fashion with environmental surcharge
Measure is part of package aimed at limiting pollution associated with cheap, imported clothes
Agence France-Presse
France’s lower house of parliament has backed a string of measures to make low-cost fast fashion, especially items from Chinese mass producers, less attractive to buyers.
‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes
Carbon schemes are touted as a way to transfer billions in climate finance to the developing world – but people at the Kariba project in Zimbabwe say most of the profits never arrive
Patrick Greenfield and Nyasha Chingono in Kariba
n the districts surrounding Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, most people have little idea their villages were at the centre of a multimillion-dollar carbon boom.… Read the rest
Revealed: legal fears over Michael Gove’s new definition of ‘extremism’
The communities secretary wants ‘trailblazer’ government departments to pilot a scheme to ban individuals and groups deemed extremist from public life
Michael Gove is set to announce a controversial plan this week to ban individuals and groups who “undermine the UK’s system of liberal democracy” from public life, despite fears inside government that the scheme is at risk of a legal challenge, leaked documents reveal.