IT’S OCTOBER!
That means that two wonderful things are happening this month:I finally turn 21! Scotland introduces its single use carrier bag tax of 5p...
Hi all, It’s almost that magical time of year… Better than Christmas, your birthday or your anni...
Every party I ever went to in college was “BYOB” (Bring Your Own Booze). That acronym ha...
Hi all, Sorry for the delay – it’s a busy time at work and so I’ve not been good about ...
That means that two wonderful things are happening this month:I finally turn 21! Scotland introduces its single use carrier bag tax of 5p...
I started my day off with a refreshing shower using some great all-natural products from Lush that allow me to have fab hair and pearly white teeth without tons of chemicals going down the drain!The blue bar is called a shampoo called Seanik and it...
As I've mentioned before, I get a Veg Bag of tons of organic and local veggies from Bellfield organic farm, organized by the One World society on campus for just 5.50 for a week's worth of veg! Today I attempted my first leek and tattie...
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...