Adventures in learning how to treat our Earth more gently and our bodies well, while still enjoying a life filled with good things.


XOCOCO fair trade and organic coffee and hot chocolate - part 2

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 [...]


XOCOCO fair trade and organic coffee and hot chocolate - part 1

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 [...]


Do you wipe with virgin trees?

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.)


Keeping my mental environment clean

Another vlog for you. This was prompted by a video by Blunty3000 (on YouTube) in which he talks about how bad news seems to get so much more attention than good news. It’s one of the reasons why I avoid commercial television and why Earth and Body Friendly is focussed on the positive side of [...]


Being environmentally friendly costs more

I’ve decided to try some video blogging, or vlogging, as it’s sometimes called.
Here, I’m having a whinge about how environmentally friendly products often cost more than the same product that isn’t environmentally friendly.
When I compressed the video, it came out kind of stretched. Sorry about that. I don’t really look that way. Trust me, I’m [...]