I was invited to write an article on the SEE Change website on a theme of sustainability and community. SEE Change is a ‘grassroots sustainability organisation based in Canberra…focused on making beneficial changes to our Society, Environment and Economy in order to live more sustainably’ (quote from SEE Change website). SEE Change is a fantasticContinueContinue reading “Guest Article: Five tips to begin your sustainability journey!”
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Repair in Action – Spotlight on the Tuggeranong Repair Café
Our society generally operates in a take-make-break-toss model. We take a resource, wood from a tree or metal from the ground for example, make it into something that we need (or often that we don’t need!), and when it breaks, we throw it out. We do this repetitively without thought for the resources and energyContinueContinue reading “Repair in Action – Spotlight on the Tuggeranong Repair Café”
The Ultimate Sustainable Toilet Paper
When you walk down the toilet paper aisle at the supermarket, it is a gloomy site. Row upon row of plastic wrapped toilet paper. It is particularly disturbing now that there is currently no Australian soft plastic recycling program to responsibly dispose of the wrapping, following the collapse of Redcycle. Instead, the plastic wrapping willContinueContinue reading “The Ultimate Sustainable Toilet Paper”
Eight Ways to Reuse Paper Shopping Bags
If you are like my family and have your groceries delivered, you are likely to have a mountainous pile of reusable shopping bags at home! We always request paper shopping bags to cut down on our plastic use, but the sheer number of paper bags that we acquire is a little scary from a sustainabilityContinueContinue reading “Eight Ways to Reuse Paper Shopping Bags”
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