Among the photo ops at the White House when the Obamas moved in, there was one with Michelle starting a kitchen garden. Read the full story

It seems to me that the horrors man has wreaked on the environment are, largely, rooted in ‘bad habits’.  Read the full story

Here’s a great tip from a site I love. You can make creamy non-dairy ice-cream from frozen bananas. Read the full story

One of the best ways of saving money and carbon is to make the ‘family drive’ or weekend holiday pay for itself by passing by a few farms where they sell produce for low cost in season. Read the full story

Just because you are green doesn’t mean you have to look like a hairy hippie from the 1970s!  Hair removal actually can help eliminate bacteria from your skin and stops B.O.. Read the full story

Australia has been praised for its commitment to green education in Copenhagen today (last year’s Hopenhagen Conference) (Friday 11 Dec, 2009). Read the full story

Bendigo Bank in Australia has always been innovative.  They were the first to go BACK into rural communities and open small shopfront banks accessible to remote areas so kudos to them for saving people barrels of oil wasted on travel. Read the full story

I don’t know if you have been to the shops lately to buy food but I have, and let me tell you, it is expensive! The cost of food in Australia feels like it is going up and up! So naturally it is time to smarten up and get wise about our food waste. Read the full story

I don’t mean to preach but it is an irresponsible way to live as a fat, sluggish and unhealthy person in modern society.  It places a burden on your family, friends and neighbours and fellow tax-payers.  You only have to look at how difficult health care is in say, the U.S.A. to realize that over-indulgence, drugs and just a lack of adequate pride in one’s own being has added to the cost of running any sort of health care. Read the full story

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. Read the full story

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. Read the full story

Regular maintenance for appliances around the home and office can not only save you money, but will extend the life of them and cut down the huge piles of ‘dead’ machines in tips.  The recycling of these is by no means an exact art and so it is way better to mend things than to get on that treadmill of buy, break, replace. Read the full story

Epsom Salts, the common name for Magnesium Sulfate are a chemical compound containing Magnesium and Sulfate in a crystallised or powdered form. It has numerous uses from personal hygiene and bathing, colon cleansing to sprinkling round plants to adjust the chemical balance.   The high magnesium content within Epsom Salts helps to draw acids through the skin when added to a warm bath. Read the full story

OK that was a terrible pun and I apologise.

However I have been making bread for many years and thought I should include something here to promote the fact that it is something financially and ecologically sound.  I won’t put too many recipes up here as there are masses of all flavours and you can just google ‘bread recipe’ and pick the one you like. But what I would like to do is put some hints from my own experience. Read the full story