Category: Sustainability
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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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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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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 […]
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My Take on Veg Boxes
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When I was much younger, I remember my mum picking up a veggie box from my primary school once a week. It was full of fresh, local produce and you didn’t get to choose what was inside. Most weeks we’d get some misshapen vegetables and I learnt from a young age that appearance doesn’t have […]
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Best Apps for Green Living 2020
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As a nature lover and vegan, over the years I’ve accumulated a whole host of apps that all have the intention of making your life easier when it comes to sustainability, conservation or dietary requirements. I’ve put them all to the test and whittled this list down to the ones I think everyone should have… […]
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What is a Zero-Waste Shop?
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Since September 2019, I have been working in a zero-waste shop. Shopping at these sorts of shops has become the norm for me since living in Bristol, but it occurred to me that perhaps not everyone knows what that even involves. Since chain stores like Waitrose are now trialing packaging-free stations, I thought I’d give […]
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No More Plastic – What I’ve Taken From The Book
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I’ve recently rediscovered my love for book shops. Having owned a Kindle for several years now, I read 90% of my books on there, but when visiting Southwold we popped into their book shop and spent ages flicking through the shelves. I ended up walking away with ‘No. More. Plastic.’ by Martin Dorey: a simple […]
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10 Small Ways To Save The Planet
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I’m starting a degree in September! Not quite sure how this has ended up happening but I couldn’t be more excited. It’s in Wildlife Conservation which has always been something close to my heart; I recently went back to my first blog posts and noticed I said I wanted to work somewhere like the RSPCA. […]