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...money and resources while reducing our impact on the environment. Buying a new t-shirt should be a big decision. In the UK, we spend £1,700 per household on new clothing each year despite most of us not even wearing 30% of what’s in our wardrobes during the last twelve months. Before buying new clothing we encourage anyone to conduct a wardrobe audit, re-examining what...

...money. In my study at Coventry University I am exploring female attitudes towards the notion of buying fewer garments. I have found, unsurprisingly, that anticipating, browsing for, choosing, buying and wearing clothes provides women with a great deal of happiness. Motivated by pleasure and variety seeking to an extent, but also by the desire to measure up to social...

...business with annual profits of almost US$ 2 billion — is not as well studied as it is in Africa or Asia. In 2016, WWF reported that biodiversity declined 60 per cent on average between 1970 and 2012, and that illegal trade was one of the main engines of species loss. The new report, published in April, warns that if this trend continues, a new wave of extinctions will...