Shopping from Bulk Bin Stores
Shopping from bulk food or bulk bin stores is an excellent way to avoid a lot of single use plastic. It also has other advantages such as being able to buy just the quantity of food you need. If you…
Minimising Food Waste at Home
As a family wanting to reduce our carbon footprint, undoubtedly looking at ways to minimise our food waste is important. Food waste is not only costly for the household budget, the environmental impact of the production, transport, packaging and preparation…
Quick and Easy Menu Planning
I needed a quick and easy menu planning process to make menu planning a weekly habit, which I committed to do in Our First Family Footprint Steps. I’ve been refining my process over years and I’m at the point now…
Easy Swap: Shampoo and Conditioner Bars
Swapping plastic bottle shampoo and conditioner for solid bars is an easy swap I made as one of our First Family Footprint Steps. I resisted making this change initially and maybe you have too. In this post I discuss what…
Three Ways to Create a Footprint Action Plan
In thinking about how and where to start our Family Footprint Project, I felt the need to break the whole issue down a bit. There just seemed to be SO much to do, I was having trouble working out where…
What is your ‘why’?
Our ‘why’ motivates action At the beginning of your Family Footprint Project is important to ask yourself, “What is my why? Why do I want to take my family down this path?” because down the track, this is what will…
20 Eco Steps to Take Right Away
Things You Can Do Now to Reduce Your Family Footprint If you want to jump right in to reducing your family’s carbon footprint, there are some easy things you can get started on right away. If you haven’t already taken…
Our First Family Footprint Steps
20 Quick Steps to Get Started To kick off our Family Footprint Project, I drew up a list of 20 things we could change in our household quite quickly and easily. These steps were in addition to continuing with the…
The Bin Audit
If you watched the ABC’s War on Waste you will have seen a few bin audits. Unpleasant though they may be, they are an invaluable way to see what really goes into your bin and take stock of where to start…
Family Footprint Project Goals
Making a start Well here we are on Day 1. What are my Family Footprint Project goals? What is it I want to achieve with this project? “To reduce our carbon footprint” is a lofty – and complicated – ambition.…
