Posted in environment on May 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
How does one dispose of a mattress if the place where you buy your new mattress doesn’t take the old one away? Leaving it out for the kerbside clean-up and having it end up in landfill doesn’t really appeal. Is there a green option? You betcha! A bit of searching found Dreamsafe mattress recyclers and […]
Posted in environment on Nov 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
At work last week a session was run for staff with practical suggestions for ‘greening’ the home. I didn’t go, but I did find a print-out of the presentation next to the printer. (Single sided, and one slide per page, which I thought was a little ironic, but I digress.) One of the slides showed […]
Posted in environment, ordinary joys on Nov 15th, 2009 2 Comments »
It’s the little things that make life enjoyable. Like an afternoon spent shredding ten years of bills and receipts. Feeding the beast became strangely hypnotic, as sheet after sheet after sheet was quickly gobbled up in a whir of grinding metal teeth. The sound of munching was music to my ears. Poor thing became overheated […]
Posted in environment on May 11th, 2009 6 Comments »
Does anyone know of any local styrofoam recycling places? Or, failing that, how to re-use or recycle styrofoam? Apart from mixing with acetone to make glue or napalm?
Posted in environment, simple living, travel on Aug 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
It’s not easy being green. I’m going to Melbourne for a week in September, and having researched cheap flights, thought I’d compare the prices with a train ticket, expecting the train to be more expensive. Turns out they’re about the same. (The train is slightly more expensive for First Class.) So, it got me thinking […]
Posted in whimsy, environment, books on Jan 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
On the train this morning, somewhere between Thornleigh and Epping, and just a few pages into The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, I noticed a sudden flash of green. On closer inspection, the flash of green turned out to be a lovely little inchworm reaching out towards my book bag. Heaven knows where it came […]
Posted in environment, food on Oct 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Has anyone been here? Green Tucker Store Co-op. This from a Good Living article: “It’s not what you’d expect to find sandwiched between a golf store and a pizza restaurant in an out-of-the-way corner of Forestville. But there it is, and organic co-op.” They held public meetings, then approached the local council waste board for […]