Day 52 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living: time to begin our Plastic Free July challenge for 2018.
It’s July. The second half of the calendar year. The start of the financial year (in Australia, at least). And time to ramp up our efforts to avoid plastic. Continue reading
Day 51 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living: my first experience of travelling by electric bike in the dark.
Recently I went on an adventure. I was attending a big dinner with an environmental theme. So naturally I decided I would ride my electric bike. It was a series of new experiences, and I learned some valuable lessons. Continue reading
Day 51 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living: using a milestone day to switch to cloth shopping bags.
Amid growing concerns about plastic pollution, a big story doing the news rounds in Australia today has been that the major supermarket chains here are finally ceasing to Continue reading
Days 49 and 50 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living: connecting to community, the key to our future.
A couple of weeks ago it was Mothers Day in Australia.
Today in the Australian Capital Territory it is Reconciliation Day.
These days are about connecting. They are about community. They are about Continue reading
Day 48 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living.
Less than two weeks after I tried travelling by a folding electric bike, I returned to collect the bike I had ordered. I wasn’t in a position to ride it home, so I took the opportunity to document how to put my new folding electric bike into my car boot. Continue reading