Forgot to mention this when it happened: I did a guest blog post on the Transition website of the St Andrews Transition movement: http://www.transitionsta.org/no-plastic-pleaseI've been working with them for about a year, and they are so awesome! It's community action to mobilize students, staff and...
Hi friends! This blog has been a bit sleepy for a while so this time I'm gonna LIVE BLOG my no plastic challenge! I've modified it a little bit to give myself a "cheat" of 4 items per week. I know it's kind of a cop...
I recently flipped through Mike Berners-Lee's "How Bad are Bananas", where hundreds of actions have been calculated in terms of their carbon impact on the planet. Well worth the read for those of you who are interested, and it covers a huge range of things...
Here is an example of a plastic-free snack! I made a PB&J sandwich with bread from my local bakery (which I asked them to put in a biobag), some organic, palm-oil free peanut butter and some strawberry jam I bought from the last time I...
I just picked up my VegBox, which is an initiative by a society on campus to help people eat more local, organic food. You pay 6 pounds and pick up your VegBox the following week for tons of delicious and seasonal vegetables grown on a...
We use plastic packaging almost every day, and we dispose of it in different ways. Some of it we recycle, some of it we throw away...
This year for Lent I will be giving up plastic again!For those of you who aren't big on Lent, I suggest using the opportunity while everyone is giving up sweets and beer to try to cut out some plastic from your life! A good idea...
I'm not gonna lie, there are frustrating things about choosing to live without plastic. Plastic has been invented for convenience, ease, variety.. There are a lot of things that you give up when you choose to reject plastic. But there are a lot of amazing...
