It feels like more than month since I traveled to China with the builder. My knowledge of China was limited to a trip to Hong Kong years ago. Beyond photos of the Great Wall of China and frequent dim sum lunches while I lived in Sydney I really had no expectations. In fact they were low and in my mind I imagined everything to be en…

Not so long ago I wrote about Ryman Eco sustainable font that was created to use less ink.   Now a new font project by Dion Star highlights the ongoing problem of plastic trash in our oceans by using found pieces of plastic that represent a letter of the alphabet. Graphic Designer Dion Star’s typeface is aptly named Marine Debris …

Have you ever started out on a diet or committed to an assignment, but given yourself one day off to make the diet/task not too hard? Or picked a day of the week where you give up something, like meat on Monday ? Hong Kong airport was filled with advertising encouraging visitors to choose a meat less dish on Mondays . It is a great in…

It has been some time since I made the pledge to shake out my make up bag and replace what I was using with simple and kind ingredients. In that time I have been busily reading and testing. The biggest hurdle was not wearing conventional makeup anymore. It was hard and my face felt naked for the first week. As I mentioned before I …

Image from tumblr.com The builder and I are having a holiday China. I am excited for our first trip overseas together. Plus I get to revisit one of my favorite cities, Hong Kong. We will be spending most of our time in Yangshauo. This is the first trip I have actively sought out eco minded accommodation. Our first choice was an…

Mrs. Easton asks the question, How many caps does a single household possess? And her visual answer speaks for itself. This was not a full collection from her home. I wonder what mine or yours would look like?

UK design agency Hogarth and custom font makers Monotype have come up with a sustainable font for Grey London to be used across Ryman Stationary and hopefully implement further. Ryman Eco has been designed in a way that when printed would save ink. On close examination each letter looks to have gaps making it look like a d…

I lost my LAST hair elastic and needed to buy some more. That is the family of new hair ties in the photo above and yes each one is worth its weight in gold. Let me explain why. I have loooog hair and it is thick and there is alot of it. This combination has resulted in multiple hair elastics snapping, being lost and really no sec…

I am not anti-plastic. I understand that in some aspects of society it does play an important part. I have mentioned it here . But I am anti waste and against the misuse of plastic. Plastic is constantly being created and falls into our lives in so many different forms. Some of it is beneficial but a lot of the plastic produced i…

Summer has come to an end in the southern hemisphere while the northern hemisphere is counting down until the days are longer and warmer. This past summer I tried out my first plastic free sunscreen by Avasol and as weather cools down as it slips into Autumn mode does not mean we should get lax about exposure to the sun. …

Late last year I was dreaming of what trips I would take in 2014. After my trip to Myanmar I was drawn to explore somewhere at home. Australia is a large country and each State offers something beautiful for everyone. Can you tell I love this country? Tasmania was at the top of the list and as I started looking at flights over Ea…

Image from 31.media.tumblr.com Since my break-up with single use plastic, my personal grooming regime has been hit hard. But not only because of the plastic items that encase my blush and eye shadow. The shakeup came also from the chemicals in the make-up. When I started delving into the history of plastic, reading about its uses …

For a couple weeks the builder and myself were on our own. No housemates. Just us. While our previous house mate knew about our progression into a plastic free life we never pressured on them to adapt to our ways. So when we were on our own, looking for a new housemate, I discovered our household bin was filling up with nothing but …

This quote is from an inspiring talk given by Tom Szaky CEO of TerraCycle. If you feel equally inspired, right click and save the wallpaper to your desktop for use as a wallpaper or print it out for your home. Trying to live waste free can be tough and I find reminders handy.

On Clean Up Australia Day 2014 more than 15,000 tones of rubbish are estimated to have been removed from 7,140 sites around Australia. This year each site was given a bag solely for cigarette butts. Cigarette butts are one of the biggest problems in Australia. For the first time this year these harmful and toxic items were bei…

Making the change to a greener and conscious way of living has been one of the best decisions of my life. But it's not easy. Altering any part of your life is hard for different reasons. What keeps me going is knowing the good that comes from living a more sustainable and considered life. Using less plastic and living by zero-was…

This time last year, a story about jeans being fashioned out of recycled plastic would not have excited me as it does today. I would have glazed over the information feeling warm inside that the clothing was recycled and I would have moved on. Now I read the stories of innovation in the name of saving our environment and you will find…

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 …