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


Reducing all the ’stuff’

‘Reduce, reuse and recycle’ is a mantra that almost anyone interested in helping the environment will know well. Recycling is all very well and good, but the process of recycling still uses resources. Reusing is a wonderful thing, as it negates the need to recycle. For me, though, I think reducing is the key.
I tend [...]


Save the earth by using real butter

Okay, so I suppose it’s not as dramatic as the title suggests, but I was just trying to catch your attention.
Using real butter is just one more way to limit and reduce your use of plastic. Using real butter, and I mean real butter in block form, means that you’re buying something with [...]


Reuse your bread bags

Another way of limiting and reducing your use of plastic is to use your bread bags again for more bread. When the loaf is finished, simply turn the bag inside out to get rid of the crumbs and put it inside your resuable shopping bags so that you won’t forget it when you return to [...]


Limiting and reducing your use of plastic

From all reports lately, it would seem that plastic is just about one of the most evil things ever invented, but perhaps it’s not the invention of plastic which is bad, but the way that we, as consumers, encourage the excessive production of it. Plastics certainly have a place in our lives and they perform [...]