Category Archives: In the Home

Sustainable Interior Design is Made to Wear In, Not Out

This article is a summary of the podcast conversation “23. Sustainable Interior Design is Made [...]

Practical Steps to Decluttering after Loss

This article is a summary of the podcast conversation “21. Practical Steps to Decluttering after [...]

Sustainable Home Renovation Design That Puts People First

Photo Credit: Atelier Photography This article is a summary of the podcast conversation “20. Sustainable [...]

Easy Wins for a More Energy Efficient Older Home

This article is a summary of the podcast conversation “19. Easy Wins for a More [...]

Flipping the Concept of Supermarket Shopping

This article is a summary only of the podcast conversation “15. Flipping the Concept of [...]

Natural Soap Making Inspired by Nature

This article is a summary only of the podcast conversation “7. Natural Soap Making Inspired [...]

Belmont NSW Op Shop & Preloved Guide

Belmont NSW, is a busy town centre along the eastern shores of Lake Macquarie. It’s [...]

DIY Christmas Bon Bons with Good Gifts

Christmas Bon Bons are a traditional Christmas favourite. But the little trinkets inside the commercial [...]

How the Buy Nothing Project Changed My Way of Living

Buy new, buy now retail shopping is available to us every day, both online and [...]

Embrace Curly Hair for a Good Hair Day Every Day

For too long, I’ve been seeking a positive curly hair experience. So it was an [...]

Toronto NSW Op Shop Guide

I discovered the Toronto op shops at the start of the new millennium when we [...]

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Hot Tips for Op Shopping Mindfully

It’s tempting to go to the op shop with the urge to buy everything just [...]

Visible Mending Books to Help Start Repairing your Clothes

Have you stopped wearing the clothes you love because of a pesky hole, slight tear [...]

Going Back to School Sustainably

Every new year we’re surrounded by Back to School catalogues telling us we need to [...]

Furoshiki for Stylish Reusable Gift Wrapping

Wrapping presents adds an element of surprise and delight. Still, it’s an avoidable waste when [...]

Locally Handcrafted Natural Soaps for a Plastic Free Bathroom

Natural soap making has been around for thousands of years. The rise of industrialisation, globalisation [...]

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Spark Imaginative Play by Choosing Alternatives to Single-Idea Plastic Toys

Photo Credit: Uniting Preschool Caves Beach This guest post story is written by Michelle Ryan [...]

The Best Homemade Playdough Recipe that Works

  Step into every early childhood service, and you’ll always see a table dedicated to [...]

Ways to Use Surplus Homegrown Lemons

It’s early August, and our lemon tree is bursting with lemons! We have a whole [...]

Thumbs Up for FOGO Recycling our Food Waste

I’ve always wanted to do the right thing for recycling our food waste. However, we [...]