Sustainability Month: Buy less and buy better

Thinking about the long-term value of what we buy not only helps the environment but keeps essential skills in product making alive, and the micro-economy thriving, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Sustainability is the buzzword of the moment, and rightly so, as we try to get to grips with how our avid consumerism is choking our oceans, killing our sea-life and creating masses of waste which ends up buried out of sight in landfill.