Climate Crusaders

The trailblazing trio George Massoud, Paloma Gormley and Summer Islam are bringing new ideas to the built environment – from rethinking construction materials to designing properties in harmony with nature

The winner of a House & Garden Responsible Design Award for 2024 is happy to share what he has learned from creating spaces that are biodiverse as well as beautiful

The furniture designer creates modern pieces using traditional methods and shows how the resources of native woodlands can be harnessed in a regenerative way, protecting wildlife and reducing our carbon imprint

David Pagan Butler is a man with a mission – to share his experience of creating a low-impact swimming pond. And, as he explains to Clare Foster, having somewhere to swim year-round is only part of the story

Clare Foster meets the far-sighted founders of Roots Allotments, who concluded that others shared their interest in sustainable growing and frustration with the long waiting lists for council-run plots

In their workshop in East Sussex, Ben and Loretta Bosence explain to Malaika Byng what has led them to develop the alchemy of turning natural ingredients and waste into sustainable building materials

Clare Foster talks to organic pioneer Iain Tolhurst, who was recently awarded an MBE for his services to agriculture, about his methods of boosting soil health and how they could revolutionise land management.

Clare Foster meets Rosalind Forbes Adam, who established a charity devoted to sharing knowledge about woodmeadows – areas of land combining woodland and open meadow to create richly biodiverse habitats

Clare Foster meets Dr John Grimshaw, director of The Yorkshire Arboretum and custodian of the world’s largest online resource on tree species, who suggests we all turn over a new leaf when it comes to planting and trying to offset our carbon footprint

Clare Foster meets Michiel Brouns, whose experience in historic building preservation, and concern about the environmental damage caused by petrochemical formulas, inspired him to launch the UK’s leading manufacturer of linseed paint

Clare Foster meets Sara Grady and Alice Robinson, who are pioneering a movement to encourage the production of British-made leather sourced directly from regenerative farms in the UK

Continuing her profiles of people passionate about saving the planet, Clare Foster talks to the vertical farming specialist James Lloyd-Jones about how large-scale hydroponic growing without soil can have a key role in the future of food production

Clare Foster meets John Little, who scours recycling centres and building sites and grows plants in the most unlikely materials, to show how apparently nutrient-poor sites can be turned into havens of biodiversity

Clare Foster visits Birch Farm in Devon to find out how forward-thinking head gardener Joshua Sparkes is drawing on natural farming methods used around the globe to produce food sustainably for a new gastropub and hotel

Continuing her series of profiles, Clare Foster digs deep into Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants’ pioneering move towards sustainable compost for potting and propagation with nursery founder Rosy Hardy

Continuing her series in which she meets people passionate about saving the planet, Clare Foster talks to the Somerset-based florist and grower Kitten Grayson, who is an ebullient advocate for seasonal British flowers with a low carbon footprint

Continuing her series, Clare Foster talks to garden designer Marian Boswall and TV presenter Arit Anderson, who have formed the Sustainable Landscape Foundation to raise awareness of best practice in both public and private horticulture

Continuing her series in which she meets people passionate about saving the planet, Clare Foster talks to Charles Flower about his meadow consultancy and wild flower seed business

Every gardener needs to be paying attention to the quality of their soil, and Michael Kennard is here to make it easier with his Compost Club