With climate activism becoming a larger part of my blog I wanted to read up on plastic pollution as I continue to write about how we can help live more sustainably, Lucy Siegle’s book sounded like a great starts! “Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (and you) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again” is… Continue reading Book Review: Turning the Tide on Plastic
Living a zero-waste, low-waste, or a minimalist lifestyle has gained popularity recently. Our over consumption of single-use products seems to thrive from our desire for convenience. All that plastic pollution has come back to bite us as we’re on our way to having more plastic in the ocean than fish. Yes, it is convenient to… Continue reading Top 10 Zero-Waste Essentials
With all the talk about the climate crisis, you might be asking “how can I live a more eco-friendly life?”. As today is World Environment Day, I’ve decided to compile a master list of eco-friendly practices to adopt. The environment is at a breaking point. If we don’t all act now and maintain a more sustainable… Continue reading The Eco-friendly master list: How can I be green?
Now more than ever, we need to save the bees. If the bees go extinct, the result would be catastrophic. So many trees and plants would go down with them, and therefore our food, our oxygen, everything. Our ecosystem in it’s natural state is awe-inspiring, but delicate, and we’ve meddled too much with the world’s… Continue reading 7 simple ways you can help save the bees
Earlier this week I went to what’s called the “Happy Market” in my university. It’s an annual event held by the environmental society where students can sell unwanted clothes, last time I found some gems there as seen in my sustainable fashion haul so this time was no different. I decided to style one dress… Continue reading Sustainable Fashion: One dress three looks
In January I suggested being more sustainable as a New Year’s resolution, with saying goodbye to fast fashion featuring in the post. Since then I’ve upped my own sustainable fashion game, and got addicted to Depop (not sponsored, just a recommendation), this week alone I completed the 1Day No Single Use Plastic Challenge in collaboration with… Continue reading Sustainable Fashion Haul
The news that we have 12 years to make massive changes to combat climate change before we’ve done irreversible damage to the planet is absolutely terrifying. The thought if an apocalyptic like future in our lifetimes was once an unfathomable thought and now it feels like a binding death sentence. It’s more important now than… Continue reading New Years Resolution: Six Easy Ways To Be Eco-Friendly
A tweet about why we should wrap our Christmas gifts in brown paper went viral recently for a very good reason. What may come as a surprise to you, because it was to me, is that traditional wrapping paper isn’t recyclable. Instead, it ends up in landfill. I took pride last year in how pretty… Continue reading How I’m being eco-friendly this Christmas
This is the cactus update I’ve been waiting for! If you’re confused as to what’s going on make sure to read the first two installments of my “Becoming a Cactus Mom” series, or in short: my reusable coffee cup broke and I decided to use it as a flower pot and try grow a cactus.… Continue reading Becoming a Cactus Mom: Growth
So far my cacti haven’t germinated yet. Germaination is estimated as within 2 weeks to 2 months so if nothing grows by September I’m gonna accept defeat and start again. Although it will be embarrassing as cacti are low maintenance and there’s 5 seeds planeted so hopefully at least one grows. I did get my… Continue reading Becoming a Cactus Mom: Cactus gets a friend
