Lighter steps in a global crisis
Globally, we’re living through something right now that most of us never imagined. Is it possible to maintain our family footprint projects and take lighter steps during this global crisis? Coronavirus has brought restrictions and shortages, and necessary changes to…
Our Project Focus for 2020
It is already March and I haven’t shared my areas of focus for our family footprint project in 2020. Let me do something about that! Looking back at 2019 Last year my major focus was minimising our waste to landfill…
Keeping Dog Waste Out of Landfill
What do you do with your dog waste? I’m posting a quick post today with a little update about our goal of eliminating organic waste from our landfill bin. The one organic that has, until now, continued to go into…
Lower Impact Cleaning
Do you want to ditch the chemical cleaners and plastic bottles and move to lower impact cleaning for your home? I certainly do and we are largely there. In this post I want to share some of the tips and…
10 Things to Make from Scratch
Over the years I’ve begun to make from scratch a number of things we used to buy ready made. With our greater focus on reducing waste and our carbon footprint, I’ve added more things to my repertoire in the last…
Minimising Waste to Landfill
My major focus for 2019 was minimising waste to landfill from our household. Before moving on to new goals for 2020, I thought I’d recap our progress on this front and outline the steps we have taken. Emptying the Rubbish…
A More Sustainable Back to School
Too soon to be talking about back to school? Maybe. At the time of writing this, school has not yet officially finished for the year. We’re all still looking forward to the long summer break, free from the early morning…
Lower Waste School Stationery
It is school stationery list time and, if you are becoming a more conscious consumer, you are probably looking for lower waste school stationery options. The school stationery list has been a thorn in my side ever since my children…
Greener Gift Giving
I touched on greener gift giving in my lower footprint Christmas post but it is a big and important topic. It also has relevance not just at Christmas but throughout the whole year. It deserves a post of its own.…
A lower footprint Christmas
Christmas and the holidays around it are not typically a low impact season. Moderation is not a word usually used in relation to the silly season! No one wants Scrooge or the Grinch around at Christmas time but for any…
