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The energetic, spirited, bustling, creative Milan may not be the obvious place for discovering a more gentle way of living on our planet. During my visit to last weeks Design Week in Milan, I was met by a gathering of creative souls who are on a mission to do just this. After a beautiful journey by train from London through the Alps last week I arrived to be greeted by a wonderful display of innovative and sustainable design ideas at the Flourisalone: Milan’s Design Week. Changing the…

Be kind to yourself and the planet on World Health Day: Step away from the plastic! It was pictures of tiny little plankton with plastic particles inside them which was the catalyst for setting up Turtle Bags 20 years ago.Way back then, early research was just showing us that the plastic in our oceans was moving into the food chain through the tiniest of plastic particles which are taken up by microscopic plankton.  Twenty years on, and the plastics agenda has broadened:  it’s moved from…

Solidarity from the Soroptimists   Rethinking Homes in Lockdown  We were all challenged in 2020;  For women in rural Bangladesh, flooding magnified the COVID crisis. The communities in southern Bangladesh are on a delta and so each year they expect inundation. However, the 2020 floods in Bangladesh had some remarkable characteristics. The flooding started in late June, earlier than usual, with a never-before seen “triple peak”, resulting in the second-highest level of flooding since…