If you suffer from dry skin, moisturisers are an essential part of life (particularly if you're no longer in the first flush of youth!). But that doesn't mean you have to resign yourself to putting obscure chemicals on your face every day; here, Kiss and Makeup's Zara and I test some natural and organic skincare products that will quench and nourish your skin.
Here at Shiny Towers, we're bringing back the musical 'oasis' that was the 1990s today, with a playlist featuring some of our favourite artists at the pinnacle of their careers...
If you're as old as I am, however, you'll remember only too well that it wasn't all music to our ears. Here's Technohead's 'I want to be a hippy' to remind you just how bad it got. Should I adopt it as the site's anthem?
I doubt this will come as a shock to readers of Hippyshopper, but we're in the grip of an obsession with "stuff". How to reach a young audience in a plea for a more sustainable future while recognising that some stuff is just plain appealing?
Annie Leonard is here to help. The Story of Stuff is an impassioned potted history of consumer production, narrated by a live-action Leonard surrounded by her doodles. It's based on ten years of travel and research from Leonard; given that it covers areas such as the toxicity in the consumer cycle and the threat to the purity of breast milk, you can't expect big corporations to be granted much of a right to reply here. Yes, it's probably biased, but the claims are also convincing enough to ring true; as with every piece of research of its kind, be prepared to do your own digging.
Why did the chicken cross the road? To hunt Colonel Sanders down and carve him up, actually. In case you were in any doubt as to Moby's vegan credentials - and he's been a bit quiet about all that recently - this video for his stonking new tune "Disco Lies" should put you straight. It's as subtle as a KFC Zinger, but if that bothers you maybe just enjoy the tune. And close your eyes at the end if you don't like the sight of blood... [Via My Chemical Toilet]
Nuts in May is a Mike Leigh film that not many people seem to have watched. You should do; it's genius. But it's also a fascinating illustration of how environmentally minded people were seen as complete mentalists as recently as the '70s; Candice-Marie and 'Keef' were about the biggest pair of losers you can imagine. Free range eggs, you say? Getting your protein from vegetables? What on earth were they bleating on about? It's a fascinating look at how much things have changed.
Last week, I was lucky enough to get to visit innocent drinks' London HQ, Fruit Towers. Once I'd downed my own bodyweight in smoothies, marvelled at the fleet of 'cows' sitting in the driveway and lusted after various shiny bits of kitchen equipment, I caught up with sustainability manager Jess to talk about what innocent are doing towards helping the planet. Find out what I discovered in the video, below!
If you've not yet seen this video, I suggest a quick viewing. It's a humorous take on government ministers' dislike of taking responsibility for environmental matters, and is as relevant now as it was back in 1991, when many people mistook it for a real interview. The performers here are Australian comics John Clarke & Bryan Dawe.
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