Category: Mother Earth
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30 Days Wild: Random Acts of Wildness
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Every June, The Wildlife Trusts launches their ‘30 Days Wild‘ project. The aim is to encourage people of all walks of life to connect with nature; specifically, taking part in one ‘wild’ activity each day for the month of June. I’ll be the first to admit that when I first heard about this challenge, I […]
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Sea Glass
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Since writing about the unsustainable crystal industry last year, I’ve been meaning to write this post as a happy alternative. Around the same time that I started researching crystals and their origin, I happened upon a beautiful green sea glass ring at a flea market in Bristol. I got to talking with the jewellery maker […]
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Are Cut Flowers Sustainable?
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Happy Valentines Day, lovers! In hindsight, this blog post would have been much more helpful in the lead-up to today, but there we are. Hopefully it’ll be useful going forward! That said, please don’t feel guilty if you bought/received a bunch of flowers today without knowing some of this info – any act of love […]
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I’m Dreaming of a Sustainable Christmas
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It’s that time of year again! Nope, I’m not talking about the festive holiday when everyone’s nice to each other… I’m talking about the time when everyone goes crazy for consumerism. This seems to creep around quicker every year and the older I get, it becomes more a time of frustration than a time of […]
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Wishing Trees
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Ahhh, the classic Facebook argument. I never normally engage in them because *brain rot*, but recently I couldn’t help getting involved in a particular discussion. It was on a travel page with over 1 million members, and the original post was receiving so much positive feedback I felt I had to chime in from a […]
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WWT Diary
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Recently, during the process of moving house, I rediscovered my diaries from my time at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge. I thought I would share them here so that I can come back to them, but also to give an idea of what it’s like to work in the practical conservation sector. Day […]
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Garden Photo Diaries: The Cotswolds
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While gardens aren’t my number 1 go-to way to connect with nature, they’re certainly up there in terms of places that make me happy. Like most things for me, I think this is largely down to nostalgia; I have countless memories of visiting gardens with my granny and my aunties pottering around in her garden […]
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Sustainable Crystals
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Recently I’ve wanted to expand my crystal collection. It currently consists of about 10 crystals, all bought when I was a child/teenager, and all from different places. When I cast my mind back, the majority of them were plucked from a large tub of identical looking crystals in gift shops or wildlife parks for a […]
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Horse Racing and the Disconnect from Nature
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This post has been sitting in my drafts for a little while, but with the recent photo of Gordon Elliott (a reputable, successful racehorse trainer) sitting on a dead horse and grinning for the camera, I felt now was a good time to post it. I am not going to include that photo in this […]
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Kiss the Ground
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There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground Rumi What is your favourite part of nature? Your favourite form of wildlife? What do they eat? How do they grow? Where do they live? How do they reproduce? There is one fundamental element of life on Earth that answers all of those questions […]