Rosebie Morton is the founder of the beautiful British blooms brand, The Real Flower Company. The multi-awarding winning brand is all about bringing back the scents to our British bouquets - or growing ‘scented flowers with character’, as Rosebie puts it. The Real Flower Company is LEAF certified and part of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme. With credentials like these, we caught up with Rosebie to find out the 6 sustainable items she can’t live without.

Dominic Jones is the Creative Director of the ground-breaking jewellery company, 886 By The Royal Mint. The multi-award winning jeweller is the creative eye transforming gold and silver reclaimed from electronic waste and discarded x-ray films into discreetly luxurious jewellery. We caught up with him to find out the 6 sustainable items he can’t live without.

Have you met the new breed of the international smart set who have taken the flight-free-for-a year oath? Fans of Zero Altitude, the book by former travel journalist and self-confessed Air Miles junkie, Helen Coffey, they’re jumping on trains to anywhere and everywhere. And their timing is spot-on. Because, spurred on by climate change concerns, Europe is in the midst of a great train renaissance. Our founder, Lucy, joined in and trained it back from Florence.

Looking for some inspiration on being a conscious consumer? Wondering how you can eat in a way that heals your gut and the planet? Fed up with the doom and gloom around climate change and searching for some solutions? Then, we have the book for you. We’ve just launched the Green Salon Bookshop for all the green reads you need to educate, empower and entertain you.

Are you just that little bit addicted to Amazon? Do you struggle with not being able to resist the next ‘buy now’ dopamine hit? Green Salon intern Autumn Clarke writes about her experiences as a compulsive consumer and talks about the lifestyle changes that helped rid her of her nickname ‘Autumn Amazon Clarke’.

Want to say “I do” to a diamond ring but worried about how ethical it is? Mother & daughter team, Elaine and Emily Refell, founders of Ethica Diamonds, have created a stylish jewellery brand that uses lab-grown diamonds that are kind not mined. Our founder, Lucy Johnson, sat down with them to find out if lab-grown diamonds really are the solution to diamond jewellery’s image problem.

The option to make your life a little bit greener is available to absolutely everyone, regardless of the job you may have. Even if you have not pursued a career in sustainability, you are still capable of helping the planet to thrive, and at Green Salon we really believe that the smallest changes can make a big difference. Here, to show you just how easy we mean, we have put together a quick list to help you climb the corporate ladder without stepping on mother nature!

Working with sustainability experts around the world, we’ve just revised and updated the Green Salon methodology. We now require brands to be publishing more information about how green they are - and we look for that information to be easily available to all of us consumers. Think of us as a greenwash filter doing the work so that you don’t have to!

From the start of Green Salon’s story, 2 years ago, we’ve been focused on promoting the best green brands out there. How exactly we do that is getting an upgrade; we’ve spent the last several months revising and updating our methodology to inform the Green Salon Directory and over the coming weeks we are thrilled to be able to share some insight with you on the changes to come.

Have you ever stood for longer than you wanted to next to the recycling bin, plastic pot in one hand, and scrutinised the symbol wondering whether on earth it’s recyclable or not? If so, welcome to plastic paralysis - the fear of putting single-use plastic in the wrong receptacle. It’s up there with wishcycling when we just put it in anyway hoping for the best. Here’s our guide to why we are where we are with plastic pollution as well as a handy graph of what goes in the recycling bin.

There was a time when going to visit a vineyard in the UK meant getting on a ferry, a train or a plane and heading south. Not any more. Some of the world’s best sparkling wine is being grown an hour’s drive from London. Our founder, Lucy Johnson, went to visit Ridgeview Estate, amongst the most sustainable wineries in the country.

A whopping 73% of us would like to live more sustainably, but not as many of us manage it. So what stops us? Life is busy, habits are hard to break, and it can be difficult to work out what is green and what’s not. Here’s our round up of the 10 top things you can do to green your life.

It’s often the imminent arrival of a precious little person into our lives, that gets us thinking about the world we want our children to grow up in. Luckily, there is so much we can do as parents nowadays to minimise the impact of child-rearing that benefits not just the planet but our babies too. Our founder, Lucy, a mum of two, works with new parents to help them create a calm and healthy environment for their new arrivals. Here are her top tips for raising an eco-friendly baby.