Today we hear a lot about responsible consumption and how we can contribute to sustainability by changing our lifestyle and habits. One of the key actions carried out lately is purchasing second-hand items. The second-hand market is blooming and one of the reasons why is the opportunity to obtain quality at a low cost price. However now, more and more people tend to support the collaborative consumption because of social-motivation to contribute to the sustainability, becoming aware of the environmental...

Iván Chávez became a member of the Inter-American Dialogue’s President’s Leadership Council at its fourth annual meeting on June 5, 2018. Chávez is Executive Vice President of Grupo Vidanta, the global conglomerate of real estate ventures headquartered in Mexico. Those ventures include Vida Vacations, which offers private club memberships at seven Vidanta resorts along the Mexican coast. Under his leadership, Grupo Vidanta has become a global leader in the travel industry, and his relationships with other industry experts have led...

AN international charity based in the UK has rebranded one of its specialist courses to avoid confusion and better spell out who the qualification is suitable for and what it can do. The International Federations of Aromatherapists (IFA), which is based in London but supports members around the world has changed the name from one of it’s vital programmes from Aromatouch to Aromacare to set it apart from similar offerings which have come along in the corporate aromatherapy industry. Aromacare...

A study shows that sticking to a diet rich in fruit, vegetables, nuts, unrefined cereals, olive oil, and fish can reduce hip bone loss within just 12 months

Ancient bones found at Roman archaeological sites reveal that two whale species have been lost from the Med

Hotter than a Central Line tube carriage during rush hour, St Leonards has quickly become one of the summer’s most critically-acclaimed new restaurant openings. Named after its address (on Leonard Street), the restaurant is the latest project from chefs Jackson Boxer and Andrew Clarke, having worked together at Boxer’s first restaurant, Brunswick House, in Vauxhall. As venerable Shoreditch appeared to have leaped from ‘up and coming’ to ‘up and came’, St Leonards follows a recent succession of highly lauded local...

Green Day's American Idiot has moved into the top 20 in the UK charts ahead of Donald Trump's visit to the country this week. The President is set to arrive in London on Thursday and will be welcomed with hostile crowds and a Trump baby blimp in the skies. But protesters look to have gone one step further by launching a concerted campaign to get American Idiot to the top of the music charts. Through a combination of purchases and streams,...

When Margaret Thatcher launched her assault on Britain’s industrial towns in the 80s suspicions that the country’s coal output may be on the decline were already there for all to see. Much of continental Europe had started to wind down their operations and the view from the Conservative benches was that the UK must follow suite. The problem was that they had nothing to put in its place, and so the benefits culture that still exists today was created. With...

Micro-engraver Graham Short, 72, has spent hundreds of hours etching the 5mm portrait on 11 fivers he plans to put into circulation if England reach the World Cup Final