Environment / Fiona McGowan

Drift • 18th November 2019

Turning the tide

Taking the fight against ocean plastic recycling to the next level - via kayak...

Drift • 12th September 2019

Cup Half Full

Fiona McGowan meets Dan Dicker, founder of ashortwalk, a Cornish company embracing the circular economy.

Manor magazine • 23rd April 2019

Viewpoint

Documentary filmmaker and activist Franny Armstrong has been named one of the World’s Top 100 Women, was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the Open University and pioneered the crowdfunding model. Fiona McGowan visits her super-eco home in Devon to talk life, the universe and climate change.

Manor magazine • 2nd April 2019

Protect and Preserve

Cool Earth, based in Falmouth, is a rainforest charity that puts the indigenous communities first – supporting local initiatives for everything from healthcare and education to clean water and sustainable harvesting. Words by Fiona McGowan. Photos courtesy of Cool Earth.

Manor Magazine • 18th July 2018

Dishing it out

Keep Cornwall Fed aimed to feed 5,000 people in food poverty by making mouth watering feasts and top-notch nosh for events all over Cornwall. Ex-Eden chef Stuart Millard tells Fiona McGowan how his business works. Photos by Thomas Axon.

Manor Magazine • 10th May 2018

Clothes with Conscience

Fashion Revolution sprang from a desire to drive ethics in the industry. Aiming for greater transparency in manufacturing, its activism is making waves around the world. Fiona McGowan speaks to co-founder Carry Somers.

Manor Magazine • 10th September 2017

Cut from a Different Cloth

A big-bottomed baby and a passion for the environment led Lucy Jewson to turn her back on her high-salary corporate job in 2003 to create Frugi, the organic children’s clothing brand. She reveals to Fiona McGowan the ups and downs along the way.

Manor magazine • 1st April 2019

Combating the Plastic Peril

Feeling increasingly smothered by the environmental menace represented by plastic, Fiona McGowan reflects on how the actions of campaigners and believers can give us hope in the fight to become plastic free.

Manor magazine • 1st October 2015

Force of Nature

A passionate environmentalist with the drive of a risk-embracing entrepreneur, Sir Tim Smit intends to build an Eden Project on every continent by 2020. Fiona McGowan thinks he might just do it.

Manor magazine • 13th September 2015

Politics of Waste

Taking plastic as his subject – in both a metaphorical and literal sense – photographer Andy Hughes is documenting the impact our throw-away society is having on the natural world. Words by Fiona McGowan.

Manor magazine • 6th November 2015

Sea Life

As head of global conservation for the Zoological Society of London, Heather Koldewey is passionate about protecting marine habitats around the world. Fiona McGowan heads to Cornwall to discuss Welsh trout, tropical mangroves and carpets made of fishing nets.

Manor magazine • 7th September 2016

Save Our Seas

In his eight years at the helm, activist, environmentalist and surfer Hugo Tagholm has transformed Surfers Against Sewage from a specialist campaign organisation into Britain’s leading marine conservation charity. Words by Fiona McGowan.

Manor magazine • 31st March 2019

Healthy Habitats

As a Devon-based, award-winning RIBA practice, Gale & Snowden has been championing low environmental impact in building and landscape design since 1992. Fiona McGowan hears how the healthy revolution is gaining ground.

Manor magazine • 30th March 2019

Green Credentials

Tate Harmer build structures that ‘don’t cost the earth’ – literally and metaphorically. Fiona McGowan talks to Jerry Tate and Rory Harmer about their ethical architecture practice. Images courtesy of Tate Harmer.

Manor magazine • 1st September 2015

The Future is Green

As the South West becomes the favourite location for increasing numbers of luxury and high-end ‘eco-homes’, Fiona McGowan investigates whether green really is the new gold standard.