Photo by Death to Stock Photos Valentines is tomorrow. I had penned a post about sustainable gifts to give loved ones. But something did not feel right. It felt limited. If anything the world needs less stuff and more love.  On Valentines day, I make an effort to smile bigger smiles, give random people a compliment, organise a …

When my bank began offering my statements in electronic format, I hit the yes button immediately and have since received no statements except during tax time. Electronic delivery is so much easier and saves me having to file and put away those forms. Plus less trees are cut down. It is a win. Since going electronic I rarely receive …

Images from zazzle.com.au I love plastic. There, I said it. It’s on your screen. This gal loves plastic. Let’s break this down before you question why a person that blogs about ways to avoid plastic is writing something that appears to go against the ethos of this blog and will be saved in a digital database somewhere, never to …

Hello! Happy New Year plastic-free crusaders. I came up with this fun idea on how to reuse shower caps, while I was packing for our road trip to Jervis Bay over the holiday season. I have been wearing a shower cap since I was a little girl. They are usually the cheap pharmacy or supermarket variety. And after a while, the …

I first made pesto when I was living on my own at University. On my kitchen windowsill sat three happy herb plants; parsley, mint and basil. The basil plant always did a little too well. I would come back from class or work, and it felt like the plant had grown another 5cm. I was constantly adding basil to dishes so none of the herb…

When I was young one of my favorite game was dress ups. My mum kept a lot of her clothes from the late 70s and early 80s. They sat in large garbage bags in her closet. A treasure trove for the imaginative kids that we were. My siblings and the neighborhood kids would regularly ransack the pile, making a mess as we put together worlds…

In the last six months I have dug my heels in, striving towards a sustainable life. It has become a passion, learning to wean out the disposable plastic from my life, buying in bulk, wasting less and just trying to be plain ol’ kinder to the earth that I get to walk on each day. Articles and books about plastic and waste are devoured…

I am going to start this post with a little anecdote to show how I didn't think far enough ahead when it came to travelling in Myanmar without using any single use plastic. I had planned to not buy any plastic water bottles on the trip . My reusable drinks bottles were ready, sitting next to my beat up backpack. The day I was du…