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 …
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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 …
Eco audit: on yer bike
Back in my teens, I got into cycling. Â Not racing, not even to keep fit – just to enjoy the motion of cycling, and the places I could go. It was an escape. It was free. And I’ve now realised that it was also quite eco. My dad passed on his bike to me – …
Eco audit: new perspectives
Right at the end of my teens, I got a bucket load of new perspective. I lived abroad for half a year. I may not have backpacked around South America, or lived in a mud hut, but I went far enough to get some fresh perspective. Going to a country on the other side of …