Earth and Body Friendly

Buying second hand clothing is a great way to help the environment. I wrote about it here, so I won’t repeat myself. Clothes swap parties are a brilliant way to get yourself some second hand clothing and be ‘green’ at the same time. When I heard that my new friend, Tash, was having a clothes [...]

‘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 [...]

Tomorrow the 28th of March at 8.30 pm your local time, is Earth Hour. To contribute to this ‘vote for the Earth’, all you have to do is turn off your lights for one hour, starting at 8.30 pm. Have your candles ready (preferably the more environmentally friendly soy wax candles rather than paraffin wax) [...]

Since working at the markets, and having my own stall situated right next to a second hand clothing stall, I’ve made it a goal to try to avoid buying  new clothes.
Second hand clothing is good for you and for the environment
Firstly, it’s a great way to reduce, reuse and recycle. You’ll save lots of money [...]

Excess packaging is something that bothers me. (Especially so after readingGarbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, by Elizabeth Royte.) Some products have more packaging than product. Not all products are so encumbered with packaging, yet some we might have to buy a lot of in a lifetime and there doesn’t seem to be [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]