Features, News

Stop Palming Us Off!

The food you buy could be pushing Orangutans to extinction! Palm oil is found in approx 40% of the food products on our shelves & its destroying the Orangutan’s habitat at an alarming rate.

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Design, Family, Features, Style

Green Weddings – Part 1 – The Invitations

Congratulations, you’re getting married! My Green Australia is here to help you guide your way through the amazing amount of information about green weddings! Part 1 – The Invitations

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Family, Features, Style

Counting the ways you can make a wedding ‘green’.

Modern weddings have become enormous spectacles and have certain traditions that have grown over the years into something above and beyond the logic of the original ceremony and celebration.

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Family, Features, Food

40 Fabulous School Lunch Ideas.

So school is starting up again and you need some new school lunch box ideas! Well we are here to help!

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Features, Garden

Permaculture: can it save the world?

A disclaimer: I am not a scientist.  However, I have observed many Permaculture farms & gardens & heard much discussion on this logical system that I am rather committed to the idea.

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Design, Style

Sosume Designers Dress For a Water Crisis

Posted on 08 February 2010

Sosume continue their ascent within the Australian fashion ranks by delivering solid collections of luxurious eco-friendly basics, and we love them! Continue Reading

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My update on the paperless toilet

Posted on 07 February 2010

Around a week ago, my dear husband installed a Shattafa.  This is a hand-held bidet, a hose connected to the cistern inlet pipe pumping fresh water, when you need it, to perform the task of toilet paper, to clean your bits after a toilet visit.  You then just use a sheet or two of paper to dry off your sparkling rear end!  The spray also can be used to purge baby nappies before you drop them into the soaking/sterilising bucket. Continue Reading

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Design, Style

One Dress with Infinite Possibilities

Posted on 06 February 2010

I would love to buy more dresses and have more wardrobe options, I really would but financially it can be tricky to justify. Now with Hayley Starr’s “Fancy Infinite” dress I no longer have that problem! Continue Reading

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The paperless Kitchen

Posted on 05 February 2010

Going paper free in the kitchen is a relatively easy process – even if you have toddlers! Continue Reading

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Low toxic recipes for household cleaners

Posted on 04 February 2010

We’ve talked a lot about greening your life so here are some actual recipes and methods for household cleaners – a quick reference for readers. Continue Reading

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Don’t throw out that cloudy crystal

Posted on 02 February 2010

Crystal is very delicate, owing to the lead oxides used to make it dense and sparkly. The very lead oxide that makes your crystal reflective, causes the glass to be softer, and prone to scratches. Continue Reading

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Home, Style

Top Tip – Cedar Blocks

Posted on 01 February 2010

Use cedar blocks to deter moths in wardrobes and stashed items.  Continue Reading

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Design, Technology

A reminder from OPERATION NICE

Posted on 30 January 2010

I was just stumbling around the internet (as we all do from time to time!) and came across OPERATIONNICE, a site wholly dedicated to being nice! Continue Reading

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Design

The ultimate outdoor fireplace

Posted on 29 January 2010

We may be in our Summertime now, but very soon our winter will be upon us, and honestly wouldn’t we all love one of these gorgeous outdoor fireplaces! Continue Reading

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News

Burp-less Sheep

Posted on 28 January 2010

Could breeding burpless sheep help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions? According to the Herald Sun, scientists at the Sheep Co-operative Research Centre are trying to find out. Continue Reading

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Food

Make your own Aussie meat pies

Posted on 26 January 2010

Happy Australia Day! My uncle was the family pie-maker and he always made pies for family gatherings and then would take us out to buy us each an ice-cream in a cone. Continue Reading

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Design, Family, Garden

Baby Food Jar Projects

Posted on 25 January 2010

Okay, I don’t have a baby, nor do I eat baby food from jars – but seeing these projects using baby food jars makes me want to either have a baby or start eating baby food!
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Family, Food

School Lunch Cautions

Posted on 23 January 2010

School lunch time was for me, back in the olden days, an awful time. Freezer blocks hadn’t been invented. I grappled with the nausea from rancid butter and bread curled up at the corners for a long time and used to feed my lunch to the chooks when I got home. Continue Reading

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