Sustainable(ish)

Episode 99! How did that happen?  And what on earth should I do to celebrate/mark the occasion? Get in touch to let me know what you’d love to hear for the big 100 – drop me an e-mail on jen@sustainableish.co.uk Today’s episode is an absolute cracker. Whoever knew composting could be so interesting?!It’s genuinely like magic. I still don’t really understand how it works (it genuinely is magic) but...

To celebrate and mark the launch of The Sustainable(ish) Guide to Green Parenting , my new book, coming out this week, there's a little flurry of five parenting(ish) podcasts coming your way this week! Check out episode 93 for some more info about the book ,   Monday's episode with Ellie Jackson from Wild Tribe Heroes , and Tuesday's episode with Rachel Boyett from Little Veggie Eats , Wednesday's...

To celebrate and mark the launch of The Sustainable(ish) Guide to Green Parenting , my new book, coming out this week, there's a little flurry of five parenting(ish) podcasts coming your way this week! Check out episode 93 for some more info about the book ,   Monday's episode with Ellie Jackson from Wild Tribe Heroes , and Tuesday's episode with Rachel Boyett from Little Veggie Eats , and yesterd...

To celebrate and mark the launch of The Sustainable(ish) Guide to Green Parenting , my new book, coming out this week, there's a little flurry of five parenting(ish) podcasts coming your way this week! Check out episode 93 for some more info about the book ,   Monday's episode with Ellie Jackson from Wild Tribe Heroes , and yesterday's episode with Rachel Boyett from Little Veggie Eats. Today we'r...

To celebrate and mark the launch of The Sustainable(ish) Guide to Green Parenting , my new book, coming out this week, there's a little flurry of five parenting(ish) podcasts coming your way this week! Check out episode 93 for some more info about the book , and yesterday's episode with Ellie Jackson from Wild Tribe Heroes. Today I’m delighted to be chatting to Rachel Boyett aka @littleveggieeats...

To celebrate and mark the launch of The Sustainable(ish) Guide to Green Parenting , my new book, coming out this week, there's a little flurry of five parenting(ish) podcasts coming your way this week! Kicking off with this chat with Ellie Jackson, who is the author of The Wild Tribe Heroes series of children’s books. I’ve been a huge admirer of Ellie and her books for a long time, but hadn’t real...

GAH! I think this episode might actually be one of the most terrifying ones (for me!) yet...What could be so terrifying? Am I interviewing Greta? Or Sir David Attenborough? Sadly no. I'm actually interviewing myself. About book number two - The Sustainable(ish) Guide to Green Parenting - which is out on March 18th. I was going to say that I'm equal parts terrified and excited, but that would be a...

It’s starting to feel like spring is springing isn’t it? We’re into March, I’ve seen daffodils poking out when we're out on our daily walks, and I even went out without a coat on the other day – wild times...!And with the longer days and warmer weather, many of us will be looking forwards to spending more time outdoors and maybe indulging in a spot of gardening. Good for the mind, body and soul. A...

We’re talking pensions! I know! Exciting stuff right!!I never imagined that I would get excited about pensions but this episode has proved me wrong. Don’t get me wrong, pensions are still pretty high up on the boring adult-ing scale of things but the potential that our pensions have to create a better world has blown me away a little! Because did you know, that your pension, that you probably thin...

You'll be relived to hear we have a  guest! So you don’t have to listen to me rambling on endlessly. And it’s a cracker of a guest! I’ve been stalking Zoe on line for years, after first coming across her annual Me Made May challenge online, and I was SO excited to find out that she’s written an actual book ! All about mending and loving our clothes, a subject very close to my heart as a reformed m...

Another solo episode from me this week, as I haven’t been able to conjure up any extra time or headspace for getting guests organised – I’ve been super busy getting ready for The Knackered Mums heading back on out on Eco Tour – this is my FREE 5 day eco challenge that’s kicking off on Monday 15th Feb. Do come and join us – it’s probably the most fun you’re going to be able to have in half-term. AN...

Episode 88 of the podcast is a solo episode! I’d love to pretend that this was planned, but the reality is that my already poor organisational and forwards planning skills have taken a bit of a battering whilst attempting the home schooling/keeping a business afloat/saving the planet juggle and I’m not going to lie, I failed miserably to get a guest organised for this week. Hence also why this is...

In this episode I have a treat in store for you if you're looking around the world and feeling a little....erm....despairing?! If you're looking at your kids and wondering what their future will hold, and worried that when they're old enough to understand what's going on that they'll be viewing their own futures with trepidation and despondency rather than the excitement that we probably felt as w...

Hmmm politics....I don't know about you but I think it's pretty easy to feel disengaged from politics - lots of (mostly) white, (mostly) men, working things for their own advantage and dragging their heels on stuff that would and could make a real difference. When it comes to the climate especially it feels like there's a lot of hot air and not a lot of action. Which is why it was so refreshing to...

Happy New Year! Although 2021 clearly didn’t get the memo, and is looking suspiciously like 2020 at the moment – how are you coping with it all? I have to say that I’m realising there’s a very good reason, in fact lots of very good reasons, why I’m not a teacher, and we’ll just leave that there….Lots of us have hopefully made New Years resolutions to be a bit more sustainable(ish) this year but my...

Christmas is coming! In fact, it's kind of here as we're currently just two weeks away from 'the Big Day'...There’s a lot to think about Christmas isn’t there? The food, the gifts, the cards, the wrapping paper, the relatives, the stockings – it goes on and on. And while some of us might be giving a little more thought to the waste and plastic mountains that can result at this time of year, how ma...

This week’s episode is a great chat with Ric Casale from Carbon Copy , an online hub that connects local communities, councils and companies who share the goal of a carbon zero future. Their aim is to help more people in taking local climate action and collectively in building something better. Now, I don’t know about you, but when I hear the words Climate Action, there’s a part of me that starts...

After last week's solo episode, I've got something a little different for you again this week! Because more change and uncertainty is what we all need right now yes..?!!This week’s episode is a live recording done from the virtual podcast stage at Future Fest , an amazing online event from Pebble Magazine that happened at the beginning of November about the solutions and the people who are going t...

Today I’ve got a solo episode for you – I’d like to try and pretend it was planned, but the reality is obviously that I failed spectacularly to plan ahead enough to have a guest for this week. Sooooooooo, I’m diving right on into the C-word. No, not corona virus. No, not that one, go and wash your moth out. I’m talking Christmas. Of course I am. There will be some of you who are saying "Why the he...

I am SO excited for this episode! Last month I was aimlessly scrolling through Twitter waiting for the kettle to boil and stumbled across a tweet about a project called Count Us In - which is aiming to get a BILLION people taking climate action!! DID YOU KNOW: Individual lifestyles actually make up more than 65% of the total global carbon pollution The world's wealthiest 10% are responsible for ju...

There's an awful lot that's wrong with the world right now. In fact, some would say, there's a lot that feels broken. So how about some inspiration and practical ways you can mend just a teeny tiny bit of the world? Today’s episode is all about mending and repair! DID YOU KNOW..? Keeping clothes in use for just an extra 9 months can reduce their carbon and water footprints by 20-30% 80% of discard...

Today we’re talking all things plogging!"What is plogging?" I hear you ask...  ...Well, it’s picking up litter, while you jog (or walk!) and it’s a very brilliant thing to do indeed. Litter isn't just an eyesore, it's also a real risk to wildlife both on land and in our waterways who might mistake it for food, or get tangled up in it. And if litter makes it out to the ocean, it contributes to beac...

If you’ve been listening along for a little while, you might have heard me banging on about food waste in previous episodes – I talk to Ann Storr about meal planning in Episode 66 , to Tessa from Olio, the food sharing app, in Episode 47 and to Ivor from CozZo which is a food inventory app in Episode 41 . So it’s fair to say I’m a big advocate of taking action to reduce food waste. And that’s beca...

Lots of us are becoming increasingly aware of some the many issues for both people and planet that are created by the fast fashion industry. But how many of us think much about the impact of our shoes? DID YOU KNOW? 25 BILLION pairs of shoes are made globally each year 90% of them will end up in landfill, often within 12 months An average shoe can have 50-60 different components, making it's manuf...

I'm delighted to be working with Organic UK * for a mini-series of podcast episodes to mark Organic September - an annual month long awareness campaign by the Soil Association In collaboration with the Organic Trade Board. Now I’ve been buying organic food for a while now – we get a weekly Riverford veg box, and I seek out organic products in the supermarket whenever I can. But until recording thi...