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Slow Skin Co. – All Natural Skin Care
Photo Credit: Keira Mason Photography Slow Skin Co. specialises in low tox beauty & skin care and is the forerunner [...]
read more...Maitland City Op Shop & Preloved Shop Guide
Set halfway between Newcastle and the vineyards of the Hunter Valley, Maitland is a town with rich architectural & social history. [...]
read more...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 [...]
read more...Bring Your Own Sustainable Habits to Your Overseas Family Holidays – Part 3
If we could predict how our ingrained daily sustainable habits would work in another country, travelling would be a breeze. [...]
read more...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 in-store at massive shopping centres. [...]
read more...Meet The Share Shop: A Newcastle Library of Things
I would love you to meet The Share Shop: A Newcastle Library of Things to borrow. The Share Shop is [...]
read more...Sewing Couture Style Dresses From Waste
In this video, Melinda shares her inspirationally creative Waste to Art story on sewing couture style dresses from waste. This story [...]
read more...Surplus Pear Syrup Jelly
Thanks to my sister for introducing me to this delicious surplus pear syrup jelly. I love making and enjoying tried [...]
read more...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 [...]
read more...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 [...]
read more...Bring Your Own Sustainable Habits to Your Overseas Family Holidays – Part 2
If we could predict how our ingrained daily sustainable habits would work in another country, travelling would be a breeze. [...]
read more...Books to Motivate You to Start Living a Plastic Free Lifestyle
Just thinking about going plastic-free can be overwhelming. But the more we know, the more confidently we can take action [...]
read more...5 Unique Guiding Principles for Op Shopping
Shopping centres filled with chain stores that sell brand new items have become bland, conspicuous buildings across suburbia. Contrast this [...]
read more...Blue Wrap Couture
Here is Melinda’s story on her evolution of ideas and design which inspired her submission “Blue Wrap Couture” to the [...]
read more...Be Kind to Ourselves with Sustainable Gift Giving at Christmas
Cheap costs and neverending availability of stuff to buy at Christmas feels more like a sales and marketing pitch of [...]
read more...DarNET! A Coloured Spectrum of Waste
Waste conjures up a motley mess of blacks, greys, and browns – a disarray of worthless, useless or defective stuff. [...]
read more...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 [...]
read more...Creativity is at the Heart of Sustainable Living
Tapping into our creative streak helps us cope with stress (aka develop resilience), appreciate beauty and approach life with a [...]
read more...Going Back to School Sustainably
Every new year we’re surrounded by Back to School catalogues telling us we need to buy everything possible for our [...]
read more...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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