Sustainable(ish)

Plastic is big news right now as we are waking up to the environmental impact of plastic pollution and our addiction to single use plastics. In this episode we're looking at ‘The Big 4’ plastic polluters: water bottles; coffee cups; plastic bags; and straws, and the impact YOU can make by choosing to refuse single use and going with the re-usable versions of each! Useful links Plastic Free July Re...

Renewable energy seems to really have the bit between it's teeth now, which is fabulous news. It has gone from contributing 9% of our electricity mix in 2009, to 25% in 2018 and in 2017 more renewable energy was added to the 'global grid' than energy from fossil fuels. In this episode I'm chatting to Tom Steward who is one of the energy boffins (and very lovely with it!) at Good Energy . It's a fa...

In this episode of the Sustainable Life podcast I’m chatting to Kim Tew, the founder of  Plastic Free Pantry which is the UK’s first plastic free online food shop. […]

In this episode I'm SO excited to be chatting to Anne Marie Bonneau, aka the  Zero Waste Chef. Anne Marie shares the story of how she got started on her Zero Waste journey, and her top tips for cutting out single use plastic. Useful links Anne Marie's blog - Zero Waste Chef Anne Marie on Instagram Anne Marie on Facebook Anne Marie on Twitter Beth Terry's blog -  My Plastic Free Life The Plastiki H...

In this episode we look at what Sustainable Living even means, and how to get started when it might be feeling really overwhelming. Useful links Episode 003 – Start with Why Episode 002 – with Chris Hellawell, founder of the Edinburgh Tool Library My ‘Sustainable 2018’ webinar – I talk in here about goal setting and chunking things down to help you get started My 'Making Sustainable Changes' workb...

Before we start – a little heads up about the background noise on this one – Sara works in an incredibly hip co-working space surrounded by trendy millenials and moustache wax, who can be heard getting themselves a skinnydoubleshotdecaffavocado latte in the background..! Sara Venn is one of the first people I thought of when I first had the idea for this podcast. She is an absolute inspiration who...

In this episode, I share why I think it’s so important for us all to get really clear on WHY it’s so important to us that we make sustainable changes in our lives. It may well be something you’ve never really thought about, but if you can spend a few minutes giving your ‘why’ some thought, it can be a really powerful motivator to keep you taking those all important steps forwards on your sustainab...

Tool libraries are a brilliantly simple concept, and are a pretty popular thing over in North America, but up until a couple of years ago, we didn’t have even one here in the UK.All that changed in 2015 when Chris Hellawell started up  The Edinburgh Tool Library . It’s an inspirational story of one man with a vision, who is creating huge positive change in his community and showing the Sharing Eco...

Yes, that’s right, a podcast! I’m SO excited to get this out there – it feels like this podcast been a long time coming, and I can’t wait to get on some of my sustainable living heroes as guests, and to chat with you each week about all things sustainable living and hopefully inspire and motivate you to think about the small changes YOU could make that would make a big difference. Hear more about...