I may not have quite filled the month with posts. But February has come to an end, and I thought it would be worth rounding out the audit by seeing what I thought of the results. Some of what I felt self-important about in my teens – like basic recycling – is now mainstream. Some of it …
Monthly archives: February 2013
Eco audit: on the outside, looking in
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, the time of my teens, a few key things happened that put eco-wheels in motion for me. For one, I went to places where eco was made accessible, possible – and carried out as a mainstream way of living. I went to other places where life was still familiar, …
Eco audit: taking your pulse
Back to the blog tinkering. Trying to create a bridge between what I wrote about in my first few years of blogging – and what I’m writing about now. Cue a certain amount of moving posts around, and developing new categories: including an eco one. I’d been thinking about an eco theme for a while …
Eco audit: sew far, sew good
I feel I am entering dangerous waters here. Â I am about to attempt to write about something that I have not so much experience of. Sewing. I know I’m allowed to write about writing, reading, food, and so on, because they are such familiar aspects of life to me. I have my opinions all worked …
Eco audit: to buy or not to buy
However strongly we feel about the environment, it’s hard to ignore the fact that society is making things easier for us – as well as harder. Among all the encouragements to spend are the ones in the grey area: the spending that’s ‘OK because the products are environmentally friendly’. As the analogy goes: we all …