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    Low Waste Advent Calendar Ideas

    I’ve gathered together some low waste Advent calendar ideas for you to share with your family this year. Counting down to Christmas is a popular family pastime but store-bought Advent calendars tend to be waste heavy. Making your own low-waste…

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    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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Conscious Consuming,  Reducing Waste

    Waste Reducing Principles

    What are waste reducing principles? Well, they are the actions we can take to divert our household (or office or business or factory…) waste away from landfill. One of our family footprint goals for 2019 is to reduce as much…

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Family Footprint Project acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of this land, and pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging.
We particularly acknowledge the Ngunnawal people, on whose land our family lives. May we tread a little lighter.
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