9 Last Minute Gifts That Are Sustainable

So, it’s less than 2 days til the big day.Girl Carrying Christmas Gifts

Have you got all your Christmas presents sorted out?

Or are you starting to panic because you haven’t…and the thought of venturing into the shops to join the hordes of other people who’ve left it to the last minute just fills you with dread. Continue reading

Are You Ready For Sunday?

Ever have those times when life, the universeHands holding planet Earth and everything seem to get in your way?

I didn’t post a blog entry last Monday because some extra-ordinary circumstances made it impossible for me to do so.

Sometimes that’s just the way things are.

Bigger things get in the way of our normal life. Continue reading

Stand Up And Be Counted – There’s Sustainability In Numbers

A couple of months ago I wrote about being inspired
to take action.

I mentioned how, even if you are very clear about why you – everyone – need to live more sustainably, sometimes it just gets too hard, too wearisome.  And that’s when we need help. Continue reading

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

You know that ‘do what I say, not what I do’ just doesn’t Dictionary definition of invest (part)inspire confidence in the speaker’s leadership.

That’s because we know that actions speak louder than words.

So I was very pleased when my main superannuation fund Continue reading

Drawing The Line – Getting Free From Big Oil

Man holding petrol pump nozzle to his head

Image: Fotolia

A couple of protests have made headlines in the last few days.

The first appears to have been big news in Canada and the US and amongst environmental organisations. It was the Draw the Line day of action organised by 350.org against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to transport oil from Canadian tar sands to Texas for refining.

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