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  • Conscious Consuming,  New Habits

    Refuse – Top of the Waste Pyramid

    REFUSE is at the top of the Waste Reducing Principles and, I’ve realised, for good reason. The more I look at ways to reduce our carbon footprint, the more I realise that the secret to eliminating many waste streams and…

  • Solar panels to reduce carbon emissions
    New Habits,  Sustainable Swaps

    Maximum Footprint Reduction, Minimal Lifestyle Change

    Are you looking for the maximum footprint reduction with minimal lifestyle change? Although I write about all the little – and big – things individual households can do to reduce their environmental footprint, I recognise that most people are probably…

  • Unhelpful Absolute Statements
    Hopefulness,  New Habits

    Unhelpful Absolute Statements

    There are some very unhelpful absolute statements going around. I mean the sort of statements where black is black and white is white and there is nothing in between. The sort of statements that say, “Unless you do this perfectly,…

  • two apples in a single use plastic bag
    New Habits,  Reducing Waste

    Refusing Plastic in July

    Plastic Free July starts in just under a week. I’ve signed up to refusing plastic for the month. It is impossible for us to avoid ALL plastic as I discussed in a blog post around this time last year. However,…

  • Energy Use,  Greener Transport,  New Habits,  Reducing Waste

    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…

  • Sliced bread in cloth bag
    New Habits,  Reducing Waste,  Tutorial

    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…

  • Plastic take away cup with plastic straw
    New Habits,  Reducing Waste

    12 Single Use Plastic Items to Eliminate

    If there is one thing that tops my waste elimination hit list, it is single use plastic. It is everywhere but a lot of these items have an easy, sustainable substitute. In this post I look at some common single…

  • newspapers stacked and tied with string
    New Habits,  Reducing Waste

    Recycling is not the answer

    Recycling makes sense, doesn’t it? Reusing resources means Earth’s finite resources last longer, plus energy, fuel and water are saved in the harvesting of new resources. And making products from recycled materials uses less energy than making them from new…

  • Snowboarder with snow capped mountain backdrop
    New Habits

    Habit hack: Remove the Friction

    Changing habits is hard but we can set ourselves up for success. We can remove the friction stopping us from taking the action we desire. Sometimes the changes we will make for our Family Footprint Project are one-offs. We’ll research,…

  • Shopping from Bulk Bin Stores
    New Habits,  Reducing Waste

    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…

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We particularly acknowledge the Ngunnawal people, on whose land our family lives. May we tread a little lighter.
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