Minimising Waste to Landfill
My 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 Bin…
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…
How to: Reusable Makeup Remover Pads
If you wear makeup, you need to remove makeup and you may well be using single use makeup wipes or cotton wool pads to do it. As someone who wants to reduce their carbon footprint though, you are looking for…
Everyday Environmental Activism
Is it time for some everyday environmental activism at your place? You’ve been making changes to your own family footprint. You’ve been implementing ways to reduce your household consumption, waste creation and resource use. You’re trying hard to change the…
How to: Bread Collection Bag
I talked about my Bread Collection Bag in my Our First Family Footprint Steps post among others. I made it myself from an old cotton sheet (you know how the fitted sheet always wears out before the top sheet?) and…
Quicker than Take Away: Pantry Meals in a Hurry
“Quicker than Take Away” might be overstating it – then again, maybe not. When life takes over, it’s dinner time and cooking a meal seems beyond what is possible, most of us are spoilt for take away options – and…
Is ‘plastic free’ the right goal?
As we approach the end of Plastic Free July for 2019, I’m looking back on a month of noticing all the plastics in our life and wondering if it is possible to be ‘plastic free’. Indeed, is that even what…
