Mason Jar Meals
Mason Jar Meals are amazing for so many reasons. No more uncertainty about what’s for dinner, no need to cook every night when you’re exhausted, more organisation in your fridge and say goodbye to plastic containers! It’s a simple idea – prepare your meals ahead in a jar, where they stay fresh and look totally delicious at the same time. You’re also reusing jars. I decided to try these Mason Jar Meals out AND with seasonal produce. You can’t get more sustainable than that.
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Biddy Bags
Samantha Jockel unknowingly set the wheels in motion for Biddy Bags in 2007 when, unable to pull off a knitting design she dreamt up herself, she recruited the help of her grandmother and elderly neighbor.
Biddy Bags has since expanded into a social enterprise boutique catering to the recent resurgence of ‘nanna chic’ through bespoke designs for handbags, tea cosies, washcloths and iPouches.
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Your sustainable shopping guide for Christmas
Christmas is coming. Ah, Christmas! That magical time where we are encouraged to be frivolous with cash, credit cards and environmental consideration. Wait? No? That’s not right?
Last I checked Christmas was about spending quality time with your family but a whole heap of department stores have me convinced that I am wrong. It is not about spending time at all, it is about spending money – and lots of it! On crap that wastes natural resources, is unfairly produced and is wrapped in a whole heap of packaging!
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DIY Eco Wreath (from Toilet Rolls)
I really want to prove to myself (and other people) that you can be a happy Christmas Greenie.
Considering I made this whole thing from what would be considered waste products (old cardboard box, newspaper, toilet rolls, fabric off-cuts) it really proves that one woman’s junk is anothers’ treasure.
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Let Great Ideas Sprout
What if instead of throwing your pencil stubs away you could plant them and have them grow into something delicious, beautiful, and fun? What if pencils could grow? Find out the answer to both these questions, and see how you can get involved.
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From Coffee Carts to Label Art: Solutions to the Broken Food System
Being in the business of global goodness keeps us pretty inspired, but last semester's Design for Change students really rocked our collective socks. Forty Billy Blue design students were tasked with cracking some digital and printed ideas to support our work around the broken food system and how our local actions affect the bigger picture. So many incredible designs emerged, which we’ll show you over the coming weeks, but to kick off, here are some of our faves.
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Top 5 Series: Household goods made from recycled materials
Ok, let’s face it, is putting out the recycling just about one of the most annoying household chores in the history of the world ever?! Check out these creative and fun recycling reinventions WITHOUT having to move your backside outside to the bin on a frosty winter morning.
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Top Five Series Part 1: Ultimate Ethical Presents
Roll up, roll up and come see the first in a whole bunch of blog posts that will be known as our 'Top 5 Series' . This week we solve the eternal dillema of the perfect present by counting down the best (and ethical) pressies for any occasion. Stock up your box.
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3things' Ethical Fashion Month
Often our fashion sense has a flow-on effect that we don’t get to see. What are our clothes made of? Who makes them and under what conditions? Could we be making better choices- more eco or people-friendly choices? These are the questions we'll be exploring this August during Ethical Fashion Month.
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Revitalising spaces one pompom at a time
For those who are as keen as me on last months post about the Heymaker! I have some news on their latest project for you. For those who didn’t get a chance to read about Heymaker! A creative collective, it is a group of 5 artists who are very creatively revitalising their hometown with art and crafts by occupying empty shop spaces...the collective is asking for your help by taking a pledge to support the collective and for each pledge they will hang a pompom in the store window. I want to see if that whole window can get cluttered with bright colours to liven up the gloomy weather, so why don’t you take the pledge by visiting this website?
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