How To Store Food Properly (+ Fridge Organisation That Doubles Shelf Life) I have to confess: until relatively recently I approached food storage haphazardly. I shoved stuff wherever it would…
Throwing away food is expensive and bad for the environment, but many of us waste the equivalent of almost 8 meals a week (UKHarvest) without realising. That’s 3.2kg of food…
Table of Contents 1. Sustainable Fashion Materials & Which Fabrics Are Better? 2. Common Mistakes People Make 3. Mistake #1: Buying expensive fabrics instead of clothes that fit well. 4.…
Plant Rich Diets and Why Eating Less Meat Has a Bigger Impact Than Organic A common default position when discussing sustainable eating tends to focus on organic/conventional debates, as though…
When I first started buying secondhand clothes it was considered begrudging necessity; charity shops were charity shops and thrift store or vintage boutique hadn’t entered the retail lexicon yet. Even…
I was standing in my kitchen last winter staring blankly at my outrageously loud fridge during one of our “£300 energy bill months”. There was a bag of carrots on…
Clothes Swapping: The Free Way to Update Your Wardrobe Louis hadn’t intended to spend his Saturday morning in a rented-out community hall rummaging through strangers’ discards, but there he was…
I used to be ridiculously good at throwing away food. I didn’t want to bin edible food, I genuinely believed it would kill someone if I served it. Yoghurt was…
For the past three years I’ve had receipts for clothes stored on my phone. Some of this was to try to be stricter with spending on clothing, others were curiosity…
So here I was, standing in my flat’s “patio,” which was literally a 2×2.5 metre concrete slab between my sliding glass doors and a chain link fence. The previous tenant…
About 3 years ago, I had what I call a minor existential crisis, in someone else’s living room. My neighbour Tom had been talking nonstop for months about “the craziest…
A few months ago I was in my bathroom staring at my jar of plastic free toiletries (each jar labeled with my terrible hand writing using masking tape) and I…