Cleaner, greener living includes clean food right? There’d be no point buying microwave meals as part of a zero or near-o waste lifestyle. Clean food in essence, is whole food. The catch for me is how to remain true to that, getting foods that are unpackaged and unprocessed to fit into busy everyday life. Blending … More Farm food – tick!
Checklist: Take a bottle out in a cloth bag. That’s not a very long checklist? I think it’s maybe a bigger deal than many of the other measures I’ve put in place to improve in this area. It’s unnervingly simple. I still fail over and over again to remember. But am getting better. Cold pressed coffee … More Re-usables
In the first instance: Non dairy alternatives had become a staple but with a price. The cartons and tetra packs were just not working on the recycling front. If I wanted to zero-recycle in favour of using reusables I needed to switch. In the second instance: I got lucky when making my first nut milk. I soaked … More Milk without the Milk
Practising any new path doesn’t come easy at first. The various new goals we have set ourselves in this household seem, at times, out of reach. For example: consuming food bought away from the supermakets, life without junk mail, flyers, newspapers, free papers, no more overindulgent hot showers, long baths and shop bought lotions and potions. … More Making a list and checking it twice
Before all this talk of eco-living went mainstream, the likes of Bea Johnson and Rob Rhinehart (living waste free or off-grid) seemed pretty extreme. Posing the question, is it feasible to be a warrior who is fallible? I often feel like the weakest of warriors swimming upstream against a tidal-wave of clobber, spewing from the … More Can a warrior show weakness?
After The Pledge happened in our household, around March 2015, we went in transformation mode. Disposing of a disposal lifestyle. Reducing the products, that essentially come in ‘litter’ from our home. It meant reminding ourselves that: ‘everything in this house is going to be the last one.’ There was an obvious culprit to use as a starting point straight … More Suppose you don’t dispose?
Home Comb is my terminology for combing through the accumulation of stuff in the home. The untold debris, the many objects, the keep-sakes that whisper ‘keeeep meee’ everytime you pass by them. You name it, you got it and it’s got to go! Living waste free (or more sustainably), favouring reusing over recycling, is an amazing change … More Are you ready to Home Comb?
And so the catchphrase was coined when, on a dewy, canvas-covered morning I realised we were now ‘Campsite Commuters’. Yes, in the early weeks of June 2015, we moved out of the flat and into a tent. It wasn’t going to be forever, just for a large part of the summer hopefully! With less of an attachment to … More Becoming Campsite Commuters
In March of this year, I decided to change my ways. I wondered if I could make each of my belongings ‘my last one’. Undoing an endless habit of consumption, to simplify and make amends. The sun rises everyday and I take that for granted, is that any way to carry on? Am I eighty-four-years-old? No, … More Confession of a fallible warrior
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