Events

1. Stay home and celebrate Seriously, I've always suspected that NYE is the night for people who don't go out any other night of year. As green planet suggests if you stay home and host your own...

Our council accepts plastic bottle caps as part of their recycling program but I understand this is not the case at all local council waste management programs. At any rate, they can always be...

I do try to minimise waste but I have decided to assist this by cutting out my plastic with a template to ensure more even sizing and less going in the bin. I know this is not necessarily a problem...

I went to buy some fetta for a recipe (a vegan version of the recipe is featured here on my craft blog) I was intending to cook to use up some of the silver beet and broad beans in our garden. They...

I bought my own cutlery and carried lunch in plastic containers in a cloth bag and was a bit peeved when they leaked. It's always the beetroot! Still, no great dramas luckily. We do have a box of...

The meringues came in a clear plastic bag within a recycled box, the plastic obviously being non-recycled.  I was tempted to ask them to take them home but decided that was cheating! I've...

We've signed up to be part of the City of Moreland's Zero Waste for a Week challenge. As the name suggests, the challenge is to live for a week without producing waste (besides that which can be...

The Victorian Government is looking for households who would like to trial an electric car for three months, as part of the Victorian Electric Vehicle Trial. More than 50 organisations and 180...

Whilst we don't really celebrate Halloween here in Australia, I had a giggle out of this tutorial for a BP Oil Spill costume! Found at Instructables.  Reminds me of the year I wanted to go...

Win a double pass to 'A sea change' Barbara Ettinger's multi award winning film follows Sven Huseby's investigation of what is happening to the world's oceans and poses the...