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  • Low Waste Vegetable Gardening
    Grow Your Own,  Reducing Waste

    Low Waste Vegetable Gardening

    Recently I posted about reusing empty toilet rolls as seed raising pots. It got me thinking about low waste vegetable gardening and other ways to REFUSE, REDUCE, REUSE, ROT and RECYCLE when growing veggies. Along with the environmental benefits of…

  • 10 Uses for the Humble Toilet Roll
    Reducing Waste,  Upcycling

    10 Uses for the Humble Toilet Roll

    Toilet paper has been in the news a lot lately. Who woulda thunk it?! Yep, it is clearly something most of us can’t imagine living without. Apparently it is the first thing we grab to stockpile in a crisis. But…

  • 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…

  • Lagotto puppy running on the beach
    Reducing Waste

    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…

  • Wooden scrubbing brush
    Reducing Waste,  Sustainable Swaps

    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…

  • Pesto Sauce in Jar
    Reducing Waste,  Sustainable Swaps

    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…

  • Our Project,  Reducing Waste

    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…

  • Conscious Consuming,  Reducing Waste

    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…

  • Conscious Consuming,  Reducing Waste

    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…

  • Conscious Consuming,  Reducing Waste

    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.…

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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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