Over the weekend I visited a bookstore in Sydney. It was a expansive space that would make any bibliophile happy. I wove through the aisles peering at the names of titles looking for the sustainable living section.   For the size of the bookstore I hoped that there would be a plethora of green titles for me to gaze at. Instead there…

Image from deathtothestockphoto.com The sharing economy is happening on a small and large scale. Without a doubt the movement is expanding. The sharing economy, also known as collaborative consumption, is all about sharing items for other people to use, take off your hands at no cost or sometimes a small fee. The idea is based on…

My parents make growing vegetables so easy. They have a plethora of robust vegetables in their vegetable garden that continues to grow each year. So I thought that growing vegetables cannot be that hard right? Last year was my first year growing anything other than herbs and I thought I would jump in and pick a vegetable I really l…

A pair of socks goes into our washing machine and only one of the pair emerges. A single mate. No other socks match up and it goes into a pile with the other lost cotton socks, unsure what to do with any of them. Does this ever happen to you? I have come up with a fun solution to recycle your socks by turning them into soap holders.…

Living plastic free has evoked changes in my life. Along the way I have been called to question all that I was familiar with. While blogs have provided a great resource for finding answers, sometimes I have needed to dive a little deeper to understand. Normally my literature choices hover around historical fiction or memoirs on rock…

365 days have come and gone since I stepped up and announced that I would try to eliminate plastic from my life by taking on the Plastic Free July 2013 challenge. Once the 31 days were complete I was inspired to continue and adopt a plastic free life full time. Now I am more committed than ever. My life is not only about living wi…

I am going to share something I allegedly said before plastic free living, before zero waste, before grabbing a sustainable lifestyle with both hands. A friend reminded me of something I said over the Christmas break of 2008… “I love being on holidays because you don’t have to recycle.” Ha! Did I really say that six years ago? …

My mother is a talented lady. Like the rest of my family and friends she is supportive of my plastic free life. So when I told her that it would be handy to have cloth bags to collect vegetables or grains in when I shop she put together two plastic free cloth shopping bags up-cycled from my dads old work shirts (thanks Dad!). I don…