Stories, News & Voices
Sharing stories that strengthen our commitment to nature, community, and a healthier planet.
Green Simple Swaps – Alternatives to Cling Wrap
Along your journey towards a more low impact lifestyle, finding quality reusable options similar to your current products means you’re [...]
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Bateau Bay Op Shop Guide
Bateau Bay is known for its picturesque, unpatrolled swimming beach located within the Wyrrabalong National Park. Relax and connect with [...]
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5 Tips for Loving Your Trusty Natural Deodorant Paste
If you’ve recently ditched your traditional antiperspirant deodorant and switched to natural deodorant, here are 5 tips for loving your [...]
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Creative Repurposing with Vintage Tea Towels
Have you ever wondered what to do with old souvenir or beautifully patterned tea towels? Discover the possibilities for creative repurposing [...]
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Bring Your Own Sustainable Habits to Your Overseas Family Holidays – Part 1
If we could predict how our ingrained daily sustainable habits would work in another country, travelling would be a breeze. [...]
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Visible Mending Books to Help Start Repairing your Clothes
Have you stopped wearing the clothes you love because of a pesky hole, slight tear or dreadful stain? If we [...]
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Creating Your Wonderfully Strong Sense of Community
Creating your wonderfully strong sense of community, where everyone feels a strong sense of belonging takes time and comes with [...]
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Furoshiki for Stylish Reusable Gift Wrapping
Wrapping presents adds an element of surprise and delight. Still, it’s an avoidable waste when wrapping with new, single-use wrapping [...]
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Toronto NSW Op Shop Guide
I discovered the Toronto op shops at the start of the new millennium when we moved to Lake Macquarie. It [...]
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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 from Uniting Preschool Caves Beach [...]
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DIY Christmas Bon Bons with Good Gifts
Christmas Bon Bons are a traditional Christmas favourite. But the little trinkets inside the commercial factory-made Christmas crackers are our [...]
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Hop in a Kayak to Relax and Explore the Outdoors
The early morning sounds of fish jumping, kookaburras laughing, magpies warbling and the sun sparkling gently on the water is [...]
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How Overnight Hiking Aligns with Eco Living
Australia’s natural environment, unique bush, creatures and the power of the weather has always amazed me. As I grow in [...]
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Creative Repurposing with Blankets and Jumpers
Have you ever wondered what to do with the old fashioned wool blankets or the used woollen jumper that’s beyond [...]
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The Lake Mac Waste to Art Exhibition
Lake Macquarie Sustainable Neighbourhoods are challenging the way we look at waste with the annual Waste to Art exhibition. Waste [...]
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Thumbs Up for FOGO Recycling our Food Waste
I’ve always wanted to do the right thing for recycling our food waste. However, we were repeatedly unsuccessful at home [...]
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Kindness is a Virtue of The Yoga Place Cafe
Photo Credit: Andsz Kolosovskis from @akphotoco Alyx-Jane, owner of the plant-based cafe The Yoga Place Cafe, believes the individual little [...]
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Microplastics are a Gigaproblem
Plastic doesn’t go away nor biodegrade. It just breaks up into irretrievable microscopic, teeny tiny pieces that pollute our water, [...]
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Divine Vegan & Gluten-Free Choc Beetroot Cake
Vegan baking isn’t high on my cooking rotation. However, finding out that my friend now prefers a vegan diet, I [...]
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Shop Local. Support Local. Buy Local
Shop Local. Support Local. Buy Local. These simple sentences have had greater prominence in our lingo over the last couple [...]
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