Earth and Body Friendly

Here’s part 2 of the interview with Marcus from XOCOCO, where we talk about organic food and discuss in more detail how fair trade works.
If you’re in the area, make sure you go and sample Marcus’s amazing organic and fair trade coffees and hot chocolates.  If not, then visit the XOCOCO website (and make sure [...]

I had the pleasure of interviewing Marcus, proprietor of XOCOCO (pronounced sho-co-co, or kiss-hug-co-co) and maker of the best hot chocolate I’ve ever tasted. He makes his awesome organic coffees and hot chocolates from fair trade coffee and cocoa beans.
He runs his stall at the markets on Blamey Street at Kelvin Grove, an inner city [...]

I had an interesting conversation with someone the other day which has, hopefully, set my mind in motion toward finding a more balanced view of how ‘well’ I do each day with being friendly to myself and to the environment.
Most days I do well
You see, I think that I do pretty well with making as [...]

Have you ever heard of ‘food miles’? It’s about how far food travels to get from where its grown to our tables. Much, if not all, of the food available in big chain supermarkets is grown a long, long way away from where we buy it. It travels across the country and across the world [...]

Another video blog entry. Do you use toilet paper made from virgin trees or do you buy toilet paper made from recycled paper? Let me know in the comments which one and why. (If your sound is turned right up you might hear my boy in the background, laughing at me.)