Going plastic-free My housemate Claire and I challenged ourselves to buy no plastic at all during the month of May 2021. I’ve been posting on our social media pages about WHAT we successfully swapped out: one plastic-free swap for each day of the month. But now I’m (finally) going to delve a bit more into …
3. Take Active Transport
Well, after a bit of a hiatus we’re back. This one involves some weighty topics, and was a challenge to boil down. There was also some internal conflict over not being perfect. But here goes: Before all the biologists in the room point out that active transport actually refers to the way living cells move …
2. Plant blue flowers
I hope you’ve enjoyed searching with Ecosia over the past two weeks, and maybe clocked up some trees on your tree counter already! This week, I’m going to ask you to stand up, and plant something for real. But don’t worry, even if you’re not a natural gardener, I promise it’ll be easy and will …
1. Search with Ecosia
The first suggestion for 2021 is so simple you can do it in a couple of minutes without even standing up: just switch your default search engine to Ecosia. Ecosia is a search engine with a difference: 80% of their profits are used to plant trees around the world. Their servers are carbon-negative, because they …