Mango or Papaya Margarita (2 serves) Continue Reading

In an effort to help people reduce their energy use and their appliances from being energy vampires, industrial designer Yong-jin Kim has come up with an ingenious new product. Continue Reading

Why is it, do you think, that this is used as a pejorative term?  Lately, I have taken enormous pleasure from watching growth.  Continue Reading

I was shocked and dismayed when I found an article about the gloomy prediction for the worlds Tigers Continue Reading

Small savings of carbon dioxide all help!

Here is a top ten list of good habits to get into in the home and office: Continue Reading

One of the best skills I learnt at school was to mend clothes.  Sure, I don’t have to darn lisle stockings or woolen socks these days but I could if I had to.  I can take up hems, sew on buttons, mend small tears, turn the frayed collars on shirts so you get another year out of them, ditto with worn cuffs, alter clothes to make them more fashionable and to suit a changing figure.  Continue Reading

The Home Beautiful Product of the Year award is well known for recognising and rewarding innovation that successfully
encompasses a strong design aesthetic and practical functionality. Earlier this month the awards were announced and this year it was won by an Aussie designer! Continue Reading

Sadly, we all NEED a carbon footprint to be able to exist in this world. But there is such a thing as being able to minimize it and some very easy techniques for reducing the space we take up in the world.  Continue Reading

We are the intruders on this land and fire, flood and all the climate elements nature can throw at us are there because the land needs them, not humans.

Annoying, isn’t it! Continue Reading

Here’s a very cheap body deodorant, particularly effective in the tropics where it is a massive problem. Continue Reading

Insulation in your house saves heat loss in winter and cools in summer.  Categorically!  So if that is the case, why aren’t homes in Australia automatically designed to insulate or suit the climate as they are in some countries?  Continue Reading

There are many many ways we can now recycle those bread bags and plastic bags – the craft of crochet has been boosted into the green new world with a range of patterns that include the use of plastic bags! So if you are feeling crafty, give these patterns a go! Continue Reading

It is great to see the New York Times doing an article on rethinking laundry in their country. It covers very similar themes that we have talked about here as well – hanging laundry to dry in the sun should be your first choice with the clothes dryer being the last possible choice. It just makes good sense! Continue Reading

What is the green best friend forever?  Bicarbonate of  Soda, Bi-carb soda  or Carb soda as it is mostly known,  a fizzing white powder.

It has so many uses around the home and is cheap, especially if you buy it in bulk from say, a swimming pool chemicals provider or your dry goods bulk store.   Love the stuff! Continue Reading

The baby pram or pusher is a machine that is built to last, ergonomically almost perfect, easy to wheel and solid as a rock for the most part. Continue Reading

My Green Australia Quick Tip:

When cooking with egg yolks and you have leftover whites, Continue Reading

With the focus on climate control and the ever changing environment around us, we are becoming more aware of ways we can be “greener” and one of the biggest growing areas for change is in travel. Continue Reading

Don’t just look at Op-shops at places to buy stuff to wear or use as they are.  When you visit, check out the labels of the clothes to see what fabrics the clothing is made of.  Some are made of such beautiful material and notions that you can actually reuse them to make superb outfits.  Continue Reading