Hello, my name’s Mardi Lee and welcome to The ReNewy Living Podcast!
The ReNewy Living Podcast helps uncomplicate sustainability by connecting you with local knowledge, practices and real actions that fit your lifestyle. The podcast encourages a wholistic understanding of what it means to live lighter on the planet.
Wherever you’re from around the world, this podcast is for anyone choosing to live more sustainably. Using Newcastle NSW (Australia) as a source of inspiration, we explore how positive local solutions can create healthier, more connected and resilient communities.
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The ReNewy Living Podcast: Season 2
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16. How a Native Plant Nursery Protects Local Biodiversity
In this episode, we dig into why choosing plants from your local area makes a big difference not just for your garden, but for the natural environment too.
I’m chatting with Emma Graham from Trees in Newcastle. They’re a non-profit that’s been around since 1989 and are dedicated to protecting and promoting native vegetation specific to the Hunter region.
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15. Flipping the Concept of Supermarket Shopping
In this episode, I’m chatting with Jayne Travers-Drapes, founder of Box Divvy. They’re flipping the concept of how we think about fruit and veg shopping by changing the way your purchasing power works. Their un-supermarketing approach is all about supporting local communities and cutting down on food waste. Let’s find out about this fresh approach to eating well and doing good.
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14. What Makes Natural Deodorant Great?
In this episode, I chat with Phoebe and Aaron Breckell, the founders of Woohoo Body. Based in Newcastle, but known across the country, they’ve created a natural deodorant and skincare company that’s making a big difference to the planet, giving you a healthy deodorant that works.
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13. Why Fair Trade Matters
In this episode, I’m joined by Yvie Scott, fashion entrepreneur and founder of Aware: The Social Design Project. Yvie launched her Fair Trade business to create meaningful change through ethical fashion and social justice. We explore what it means to run a values-driven business, why supporting communities is her passion, and how Fair Trade can inspire meaningful change.
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12. Balancing Collective Living with Individual Ideas
It would seem that the challenges of living a lighter footprint lifestyle would be the same for everyone who lives in an eco village. However, even though there’s the common goal of living sustainably, there’s plenty of scope for residents to individualise what sustainability means to them.
Sally Maguire, resident of Shepherd’s Farm shares her insights of what it’s like to live in an eco village, also known as a land share community.
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11. Closing the Loop on Food Waste
Unlike the availability of recycling and general rubbish collections, commercial kitchens face big challenges with their food waste.
David Sivyer is the founder of Feedback Organic, an organisation focused on reducing food waste from food-based businesses. Starting in Newcastle as a grassroots initiative, Feedback Organic aims to create community-inclusive circular food systems that scale.
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10. A Sustainable Clothing Journey: From Farm to Fibre
Decades of globalised production have left us disconnected from our clothes and the journey it takes to get to us. Rebecca Muscat from Three Muscats Fibre Farm in Singleton, Hunter Valley is a passionate textile and fibre artist. She’s deeply connected to every step of her craft and her story reminds us that behind every piece of clothing, there’s a process, a history & a whole lot of heart.
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9. Less Plastic Toys for More Sustainable Play
If you have young kids, do you feel your house has been overtaken by too many toys?
Bringing us good news about the value of less plastic toys for more sustainable play are two highly experienced early childhood educators from Uniting Preschool Caves Beach, Director Michelle Ryan and educator Raquel Ayerst. At the heart of their preschool practice is sustainability, social justice and creativity.
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Blogposts from The ReNewy Living Podcast…
What Makes a Beauty Salon Sustainable?
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Natural Soap Making Inspired by Nature
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Nov
Nov
Flipping the Concept of Supermarket Shopping
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Feb
Feb
How a Native Plant Nursery Protects Local Biodiversity
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Mar
Mar
Less Plastic Toys for More Sustainable Play
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Dec
Dec
Behind the Op Shop Donation Door
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Sep
Balancing Collective Living with Individual Ideas
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Jan
Jan
Repair Cafes Help to Fix, Mend & Connect
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Hear Mardi from ReNewy Living as a Podcast Guest…
The Yellow Shelf Podcast
The ReNewy Living Podcast, host Mardi Lee
A quick 7 minute conversation with host Johanna Fink about The ReNewy Living Podcast
Available on Apple Podcasts, and Spotify podcasts
March 2025
Practical Permaculture
Episode 70 Values Aligned Sustainability | Mindful Consumption
Sharing my journey into sustainability, exploring the importance of community empowerment, creative workshops and the principles of permaculture in daily life and dive into the beauty of gifting preloved items.
Available on Apple Podcasts, and Spotify podcasts
November 2024
Pod like a Pro
How to Find your own Style and Voice in Podcasting
How I got over the overwhelm for starting a podcast and find my own style and voice just by launching the pod.
Available on Apple Podcasts, and Spotify podcasts
September 2024
Creativity: Uncovered with Abi Gatling
What does Sustainability have to do with Creativity?
Topics include op shopping, being resourceful, the concept of play for creativity and why and how we should embed creativity into our everyday.
Available on Apple Podcasts, and Spotify
June 2023
Living Smart Podcast
Getting Creative with Rubbish
How resourceful we can be with seeing waste and marine debris as a resource and stepping stone to tap into our creativity.
Available on Apple Podcasts, and Spotify
September 2021
Be a Guest on The ReNewy Living Podcast…
Mardi from ReNewy Living (left) with Sally Maguire (right) from Shepherd’s Ground Community Farm and Village. In conversation on Season 2 of The ReNewy Living Podcast.
ReNewy Living is always keen to chat with guests from the Newcastle region who are doing good things for people and planet.
We’d love to chat on the phone first if you:-
- are an individual who’s knowledgable about one or more areas of sustainability
- are a business or organisation who either is 100% sustainability-focussed or has a strong environmental mission/ project or social justice. All whilst keeping sustainability as the core theme.
- Live in the Newcastle region. This includes the council areas of Central Coast, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Port Stephens, Maitland, Cessnock and the Upper Hunter.
If you have a topic idea or unsure whether it’s possible to be a guest, I encourage you to reach out via email – info@renewyliving,com.au – or via the Contact page…
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