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Posted on 14/02/201831/05/2018

Try a Taste of Sustainability (3)

This is 3rd in a 5 part series looking at everyday activities, organisations and campaigns that support contributing to sustainable change. Although focused on Reading UK, it…

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Posted on 30/01/201817/02/2018

Get Creative in Making Positive Change (2)

This is 2nd in a 5 part series looking at everyday activities, organisations and campaigns that support contributing to sustainable change (in Reading UK and beyond)…

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Posted on 24/05/201524/05/2015

Like Free Pens? Don’t come to this then.

Open Source Circular Economy is here! Good design is open! The OSCEdays London team is inviting you to take part in the first Open Source…

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So it was Earth day on Monday ( no I didn’t forget, but spent the day digging in the earth creating a wee wildlife pond in the garden), thus also avoiding all the Earth day merchandising. 😉 And yes everyday is Earth day! Anyway, it may have slipped you by ( especially if you’re an @ecosia convert day to day), but the mighty Google relaunched their “Your Plan, Your Planet” online interactive tool to support learning about the sustainable actions you can take in the home and the circular economy. ( a little gamification to support awareness raising & behaviour change). Alongside their #Mysuperg also taking on the sustainable stuff in the home theme. 💻 Anyway some nice visual graphics, stats and overviews to help think about your actions and choices a little more. Could be great to use as an educational resource in schools too. Although it does miss a bit of a connection to nature for me (naturally) and the combined ethical side of sustainability. 🌳 You’ll find it at ( yourplanyourplanet.sustainability.google ). Hopefully folk who aren’t already doing or thinking about these things will come across it to! 🙌 On a side note, I had a quick scroll down the comments on it on their feed. “Where’s your Easter artwork?” “ where can I buy that google bottle & pens” At least with all their followers this can begin to help filter through..... 🤦‍♀️ . . . . . . 📷 @google #yourplanyourplanet #ecodesigner #sustainabledesign #ecochoices #sustainableliving #earthday #circulareconomy #greenliving #womenintech #digitalgraphics #infographics #ecotech #behaviourchange #smallsustainablesteps #gamification Ooh, I’m talking fashion today 💃🏻 Maybe not something that pops up in these little squares of mine explicitly very often, ( I’ve always been a second hand, charity shop kind of girl, that now has actually become more fashionable.....), but in terms of trends and insight I’ve worked in the crossing over sustainable design and waste, ethics area for a while. 🤔 It’s @fash_rev week, a campaign & wider movement I’ve supported for a number of years and today, especially, its also a time to remember the horrific ranaplaza disaster in a Bangladesh garment factory, that cost the lives of so many ( over 1,100 people died when it collapsed ). Do read more about it on their feed. 💙 To be honest I struggle with the term “sustainable fashion” and the word fashion itself makes me a bit nervous in relation to sustainability, so often associated with the latest trend, season or catwalk. A particular time and often driven by economics to sell more. Don’t even get me started on the “Fast” business models 🐈 Now I’m a lover of definitions, and the background of words, etymology, and when getting back to the root of fashion there’s actually a beauty to the word rather than the short termism associated. It seems to come from Latin faction - factio “ the art of making”, from facere “ to make, bring about do” 🙌 So let’s reclaim the word, not to be the new, the shiny, the latest, the extrinsic, the passing BUT to truly mean “ to make, bring about, Do sustainability” . . . . . . #ecofashion #sustainablefashion #theartofmaking #fashionrevolution #whomademyclothes #shopsecondhand #slowliving #slowfashion #fastfashion #lovedclotheslast #loveyourclothes #fashionrevolutionweek Shocking stat alert 🚨 ( and if you watched #climatechangethefacts last night your head may be brimming full of them already.) and no this is not my reaction to working a wee bit on good Friday morning. 🤔 An environmental impact area that was touched upon last night, is when looking at embodied energy or carbon footprint of products. From clothes to plastic, to plastic free products, to food. Everything we buy and use has used energy ( usually fossil fuelled) to create it, transport it, sell it ( alongside water, materials and human hours - some fair and ethical, many not ). 😔 One particular type of product that so far has quietly been hiding in our pockets, resting under our tapping fingers or staring us right in our climate change programme watching face is ewaste - electrical or electronic waste - smartphones, laptops, computers, TVs and many more... our often broken relationship with them. 💻 Currently only 20% of this gets recycled (formally ) with rare earth and precious metals, resources wasted. Instead of continually mining more up we could be building and designing better systems and infrastructures to use what we already have, manufacturers should be creating durable and lasting products, able to be repaired, maintained, updated and sustainable and ethical business models around this. Ones that don’t force you to upgrade or make it almost as cheap to buy a new one then to fix it. 🛠 These are the products that have ironically enabled humans to connect, communicate, raise awareness and take action like never before. So let’s try and respect them a little better! ✊ . . . . . . . . . #ewaste #ecodesigner #circulardesigner #circulareconomy #plannedobsolescence #productdesigner #industrialdesigner #sustainabledesign #ecodesign #durabledesign #righttorepair #technicalnature #climatechangethefacts #ecoliving #greendesign #ecotech #digitalnomadlife Yep 🙌😎 . . . . . . 📷 @making_roots_sustainability #restandreflect #thesimplethingsinlife #ecocoach #startupnature #thursdayquotes #womeninsustainability #worklifebalance #gentleliving #slowliving_create #getoutdoors #myhappyplace #thegoodlife Days spent walking, sharing, exploring, gardening (lots), eating, drinking and capturing precious moments. Just being Together 💙 Oh and preparing for the bluebell spam 😉 . . . . . #familytime #formomentslikethis #parenttime #bluebellspam #restandreset #thebestthingsinlifearentthings #everdaygrateful #ecodesigner #ecocoach #digitaldetox #naturephotography #offlineisthenewluxury Have you seen this absolutely lovely festival coming to Reading on the 11th of may? ☀️ Much more my cup of tea then that other one that comes to Reading later in the year......don’t even get me started on the Tent waste! ⛺️ Anyway this one, has been conceived by @alicemayyoga and brought to life by a whole host of different wellbeing, yoga, healing, art, craft, design, food and nature practitioners collaborating and saying YES to bringing all this good stuff for us and planet together. 🙌 @laurarouthparsons has also done amazing getting all of this online - so head on over to their @earthlivingfestival and follow the link to the website. There will be early bird tickets available until the 15th. 🦢 Looking forward to sharing a truly nourishing day with everyone. Maybe see you there? 💙 . . . . . . . #rdguk #berkshireliving #emotionalwellbeing #humannature #ethicalliving #ecoliving #digitaldetox #sustainabledesigner #ecodesigner #artforthesoul #circulardesign #communityfestival Morning blue skies & pink blossom ( yes it’s still the season ) 🌺 Hope you have a blooming good day everyone. Head down for me this morning after a dog walk, before some design collaboration in the afternoon and then time to get “curious” with the @curiouslounge Maybe see some of you there! 🧐 . . . . . . . . . #blossom #rdguk #rdgukbiz #inspiredbynature #blueskiesandblossoms #thursdaymorning #ecodesigner #lovenature #freelancerlife Let’s hope so...... . . And then tell that voice in your head to just rest sometimes, go do some gardening or something and be quiet a while .... and then, just go for it 👍 . . . . 📷 @thetiredgirlsociety #ecodesigner #systemthinking #lifecyclethinking #overthinkingquotes #superpowers #authenticme #ecocoach #ecomentor #startupnature #impostersyndrome #thoughtfulness #empathy #humannature Yesterday, just letting the weekend course on generative leadership and theory U sink in and feeling grateful for the people I met ( from all over the world), and all the privileges I have to learn and explore! Oh and for being able to stare out, be in, touch, smell and listen to nature everyday. 💚 Sometimes in this busy, hectic, digital world it can be so easy to get disconnected from the world and your self 🌎 To live and act with your whole self, mind, heart and gut intelligence 💙 To be human.... 😊 . . . Or a dog 🐶 . . . . . . . #generativeleadership #beyourself #doga #stillness #retreatandreflect #observenature #inspiredbynature #grateful #exploreandexperiment #theoryu #rescuedog #lovemygarden #ecocoach #sustainabledesigner #biophillia #emotionalintelligence

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