Category: practical tips
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The Hidden Footprints of Daily Life
What if I told you that sending an email, drinking a beer, and texting your friend all have a carbon footprint? We might naturally tend to think about sustainability in big, obvious ways—plastic waste, food choices, travel. The stuff we don’t touch, see and might not even think about—like the footprint of digital lives, what…
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Eco-Nomics: It’s All in Your Head
Most of us know the drill: ice caps are melting, the Amazon is disappearing, we’re turning into plastic dolls, you’ve heard it all before. We care, so we carry cotton tote bags (if not forgotten), feel a bit guilty about takeaway coffee cups, and maybe even flirt with the idea of a zero-waste lifestyle for…
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Seizing The Extra Day
Time to make this bonus day count and wrap up my green mission with a bang! As the sun sets on this leap February, I find myself in a race against time tying up loose ends. Sure, there are a couple of challenges left, whether it’s my advanced procrastination skills, a dash of laziness, or…
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One For Me, One For You
Have you ever seen the movie Pay it Forward (this is not an age test, even though it came out in 2000)? The movie (loosely based on the novel of the same name) follows the story of a young boy named Trevor, who is assigned a school project to devise an idea that could make a big…
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Let’s (Not) Put A Label On It
This is part two of this entry Now that we’ve stepped into a world full of confusing, overly positive, and sometimes just plain wrong sustainability claims, it’s like trying to navigate the dating scene. You know, where labels mean defining a relationship and answering the question of “what are we.” Let’s see how tricky it…
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Hanging By a Thread: Wardrobe Crisis
True story: my wardrobe is a bit of a time-capsule, with some pieces dating back to my broke-ass student days. And these oldies but goldies are still holding strong after over a decade! These garments, despite being snagged from the shelves of fast fashion the likes of H&M and Zara, seem to hold up better…
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Life is Plastic, It’s Not Fantastic
You might have already heard it, we are slowly but surely starting to live in the Barbie world 🎀. No, it is not the colour — I would like to think that the pink mania is finally over. It is the fact that there is now a little Barbie in all of us, thanks to…
Fair February 