Saturday Night Fever! It’s been a long long time since I used to get upset if I was home alone on a Saturday night. But I remember it vividly and my heart goes out to all the young people experiencing that isolation and disappointment during the pandemic. My heart also Read more…
Act and Hope Will Come There are some very simple ways to contribute to A Year in a Day – the best way is to copy an action someone else has posted because it demonstrates that people’s actions have impact and each person can inspire another to act. Today I Read more…
The Planetary Health Initiative’s Wildlife Compatible Garden is on the Edible Garden Trail on Saturday 5 March and our first Swampcare group meets on Friday 25 February As the late afternoon sun cast its golden glow over our beautiful Country/Ngurra this evening, I took time after work for the first Read more…
Sharing positive actions creates a multiplier effect Taking a positive action and then going one step further to share it with others, creates a multiplier effect – exactly what we need to urgently accelerate action to restore planetary health. Sharing what you do sends a message to others that we’re Read more…
For Valentine’s Day we went to the tip and made baked beans from scratch! Is it possible to get more romantic than that? I have always been a hoarder. I learnt it from my grandparents who lived through the Great Depression and kept EVERYTHING. I still have my grandmother’s pill Read more…
Recognising how much we take from the earth and don’t give back Today I ‘left no footprint’ and for the first time in my life gave back to the earth more than I took out of it! I knew in advance it was going to be a rare sunny day, Read more…
Today I made hankies, started a hanky box, and filled two hanky tins! I love hankies, but my husband doesn’t. Neither do our boys. So the men in my family go through lots of tissues. Today I decided to pull out all the scrap fabric I had around the house Read more…
Today I focused on metal and peace Today the ‘fierce urgency of now’ prompted me to take TWO actions: one focused on the preciousness of metal, and one focused on doing everything we can to maintain peace. I went on a Treasure Hunt for metal around the house and have Read more…
On feeling intense relief at finally doing what I’ve wanted to do for such a long time I have been dependent on buying sanitary pads for over 40 years. I expected to no longer need them after I stopped menstruating, but as a mother who birthed twin boys, I’ve now Read more…
Love Local and Love Global Blue Mountains City Council’s Love Local Campaign has been at the front of my mind this week as I’ve been trying to decide the best new actions I could choose to restore planetary health! Two days ago I purchased my first ever Vegan cookbook, inspired Read more…
Microgreens Part 2 Just under two weeks ago I made my first attempt at growing microgreens. I’ve been so impressed at how quickly we got a crop. Today we harvested the last of them and used them on our Laksa for dinner. Researchers have found that the leaves of microgreens Read more…