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Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution.  It was started in 2011 by Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and a small team in local government in Western Australia and is now one of the most influential environmental campaigns in the world. The movement has inspired 100+ million participants in 190...

  Sunscreen is designed to protect our skin from harmful UV rays to prevent skin cancer, but could it be damaging our health and the planet in the process?  Despite sunscreen being now universally accepted as a critical barrier to reducing skin cancer risk, in recent years, it has come under scrutiny for being potentially toxic to the environment –...

  Plastic Free July is a key initiative of the Plastic Free Foundation. It began in 2011 and now sees 326 million people from 117 countries get involved. Head to www.plasticfreejuly.org to sign up to the challenge through their website. You can try to cut down on your plastic use for 1 day, 1 week or for all of July....

Jessica O’Rourke from Mud Bugs has put together 3 simple activities for you and your kids to enjoy this Summer. Pressed Flowers This activity is great for preserving colour and flowers and introduces children to one method of preservation. This is a lesson of patience, science and beauty. Keep it simple and just talk through the activity and allow your...

I will be sharing some tips over the next month but I certainly don't want anybody to think that I have this eco lifestyle thing down!! I don't. I do my best and that is all any of us can do. For years, I mindlessly bought things without thinking about how far they had travelled, about who had made them...