Healthy Planet
Reasons Why Your Brain is the Biggest Part of Going Green
Reasons why your brain is the biggest part of going green: 1. Changing your habits requires changing your thinking, behaviour and attitudes. đ 2. This takes time and it isn’t easy. For example, going to an op shop for an item you need instead of a mall, taking your own bags, refusing to shop. đ¸ 3. It…
Read MoreChoose Kindness
The world has gone mad. We are being run by people who value self interest, individuality, only their beliefs, money, power and personal gain. Alongside this, more and more people on social media forget that actual human beings are behind the posts they see on their feeds. I experienced this during the week. They often…
Read MorePlastic Free July: There’s No Such Thing as Perfect
Plastic Free July is a campaign led by the Plastic Free Foundation. Each year, millions of people around the globe take the challenge and choose to refuse single-use plastics. Their vision is for us to live in a world without plastic waste. This is such an important movement. The idea of Plastic Free July is…
Read MoreJoin Our Revolution of #kindnessandhope
It’s getting harder, this holding onto hope. The daily onslaught of terrible news, how we are destroying the planet, destroying ourselves. The selfish, self-interested liars, who dangle their power across our faces, making choices most of us don’t want. Seeing the children, marching for change, feeling frightened nobody will care. Reading comments on social media…
Read MoreRespecting Our Planet On The Wide-Open Road
I have been quiet on the blog recently because I was finishing my thesis and have now submitted it! Wish me luck. We then took a family road trip, which included me attending two children’s writing events. We traversed across lots of wonderful places in Victoria and NSW, including Melbourne, Bega, Tathra, Canberra, Jindabyne, Lakes…
Read MoreFlourishing in the Face of Climate-Grief and Eco-Anxiety
How do you hold onto hope when everything seems hopeless? How do you enjoy daily life when it all feels pointless? These kinds of feelings are things I have experienced before, as someone who has had depression a number of times. And I am feeling them now, but not due to depression. We are now…
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