Reading Time: 2 minutesThe hot topic, at the moment, for living a green and zero waste lifestyle revolves around animal-based or plant-based food and sustainable diet. All the focus is on where you are on the meat-eating or plant-eating spectrum, wherever you look. Perhaps you’re reading this because you want to know what to eat. Eat meat/don’t eat […]
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Unpackaged Food Revolution, Loose Leaf Tea and More
Reading Time: 7 minutesWe need an unpackaged food revolution. In my last post Plastic-free shopping 1970s style we went shopping with me and my late Nan on the bus (buz) into Hanley in the centre of Stoke-on-Trent. This was my bid to investigate the plastic-free food that went into her tartan shopping trolley in the 1970s. I was prompted […]
Plastic-free Food Shopping 1970s Style
Reading Time: 8 minutesWondering if you can achieve plastic-free food shopping and ditch plastic from your food shopping haul? You wouldn’t be alone. I’ve been thinking about it recently and have been going food shopping with my late Nan. This is metaphorically speaking, as we’re going down Memory Lane back to the 1970s. I find these trips enlightening. Not […]
Work, Waste and Consumerism
Reading Time: 6 minutesI have been gone for just over a year. By that I mean from the blog, and for the earlier part of the year in many respects, the home, without even venturing far from home. Work, waste and consumerism been on the rise in our household this past few months. How can that be? Why […]
Craftivism, Activism, and Why We Must Keep Speaking Out
Reading Time: 8 minutesCraftivism is getting attention. If there are issues that you feel you must speak out about, but taking to the streets with a placard fills you with dread, this may be for you. If you’re a crafter (or are prepared to buy the skills of a crafter) you may be able to influence people with […]
New From Old: Recycle Your Greetings Cards Into Next Year’s Cards and Gift Tags
Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you ever thought to recycle your greetings cards? You will probably have seen enough of Christmas cards, once Twelfth Night has gone and you have taken them all down. Before you throw them into the recycling bin you might want to look a little carefully at them. For they have the potential to become […]
