For the wild – links to great books and actions.
Without oceans in pristine condition, life as we know it will not be one any more… A recent mapping exercise has outlined that only 13% of the world’s oceans are…
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Plastic Soup. An Atlas of Ocean Pollution by Michael Roscam Abbing
ISBN: 9781642830088 Published by Island Press RRP $37.99 Plastic soup is everywhere. There’s no place on Earth nowadays that is genuinely free of plastic: it is in rivers and canals…
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How do you wrap your sandwich
I’ve always been intrigued by the amount of people that tell me they can’t stop using cling wrap because they can’t afford to buy reusable containers. So I decided to…
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Tilly’s Reef Adventure by Rhonda N. Garward
A turtle hatches from her egg and immediately her life is in danger – we know that has always been that way but how have humans made the dangers even more numerous? Tilly’s Reef Adventure by Rhonda N. Garward is a wonderful book...
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Benny Bungarra’s Big Bush Clean up by Sally Morgan and Ambelin Kwaymullina
Have you ever been out on a bushwalk, seen some rubbish but thought – it’s not mine, I’ll just leave it? Or have you ever left something behind because you…
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Sustainability and parenting
Parenting isn’t easy and when you throw in trying to be more sustainable, things can get a little more complex – why? Working full or part time can seem to…
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Lunchbox musings
As a parent I am swamped with what we should be giving our children for school lunches and also the importance of how they look. Really? Do we really need…
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Happy eco birthday to you…..
Balloons, plastic wrapped lollies, party blowers, party hats…..memories of a childhood birthday party. Waiting in anticipation for the day and counting out the lollies for each of the party bags.…
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Goodbye to the plastic bag
Finally – Woolworths have woken up and possibly started to take lead in the war on waste – something they should have done a long time ago! Need some books…
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It ain’t easy being green – plastic free July
Perhaps you have signed the pledge to be plastic free in July or have been inspired by hearing about the terrible amount of plastic in our oceans and landfill? Perhaps…
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A bag and a bird by Pamela Allen
The plastic bag went too. John could see it caught on a bird high in the sky, flying and flapping behind like a scarf in the wind. A warm sunny…
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Plastic Free July
July is Plastic Free July and throughout this month we all need to try and make an effort to make our lives full of less plastic! Why do we need…
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