23 Creative Ways To Reuse Old Plastic Bottles

DIY recycling projects are always cool, especially when you can turn your trash into something new and useful. The PET plastic that most plastic beverage bottles are made of is a fairly useful material – it’s resilient, flexible, transparent and food safe. As such,...

Save Warkworth Sands Woodland

Attached are links to Rio Tinto’s proposal to extend Mt Thorley & Warkworth open cut coal mines. If these proposals are approved by the NSW Planning and Assessment Commission the world unique Warkworth Sands Woodland will be destroyed and the village of...

Ecodyeing workshop in Kentucky 14th June

Don’t forget on the 14th June you can learn to dye natural fabrics (wool, cotton and silk) with natural plant materials right here in Kentucky. Email Kath to find out more or see our website www.gocreatenewengland.com. By: Kath Caddy

Act on Climate web site goes live

If you are interested in or have concerns about our climate, please register on the new web site for Act on Climate (aoc.org.au) which went live today, 14th April. If you have anything you would like to post on the site, all contributions are welcome. Contact:...

Waste Deep

Food and packaging waste is not simply something that ‘goes away’ when we pop it in the rubbish bin for collection by our garbos. Waste has an insidious, long-term impact on our environment, our wildlife and ultimately our own health. But how do we avoid it? In an age...

5 steps toward going ‘zero waste’ in the kitchen

“One happy discovery I’ve made is that the zero waste movement is much more popular and widespread than I thought” Shop with reusable containers Buy groceries in bulk Set up a good backyard compost system Make certain things from scratch to avoid packaging...