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The ugly truth about fast fashion
Aja Barber reflects on her relationship with fast fashion, outlines its polluting and destructive effects, and shares the small, personal changes we can make that could help.
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People against pollution
Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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The Cult of the coconut : a popular exposition of the coconut and oil-palm industries containing important, timely, and somewhat exclusive information upon a rapidly increasing trade, and upon the uses of the products and by-products of the coconut (copra) and oil-palm trees.
Date: [1912?]- Archives and manuscripts
Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd (I.C.I.)
Date: 1952-1978Reference: PP/EBC/F.219-F.227Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris- Books
The food industries of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Derek J. Oddy and Alain Drouard.
Date: [2013]- Books
Edible oils & fats / by C. Ainsworth Mitchell.
Mitchell, C. Ainsworth (Charles Ainsworth), 1867-1948.Date: 1918- Books
Indian essential oils : a review.
Menon, A. K.Date: [1960]