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Be a sustainable Valentine 💌

It’s the season of love once again, whether you celebrate it romantically, with your best friends or by treating yourself. It can also be a time to show the planet some love too. In a time where every event/celebration/occasion has been hyper-commercialised (why am I seeing everything being made in pancake-flavour this year?!), Valentine’s canContinue reading “Be a sustainable Valentine 💌”

2026 New Year Goals

Happy New Year all! I think this may become an annual thing where I only acknowledge the new year right at the end of January on here. Hope your 2026 has been going well so far – we seem to have globally started much as we did in 2025, with a big political bang. ThinkingContinue reading “2026 New Year Goals”

2025 Sustainability Wrapped

Happy New Year’s Eve folks! It doesn’t feel five minutes since we were just embarking on this new year and setting our 2025 goals. There have been global high and lows, and personal progress too this year, so before we look ahead to 2026, let’s reflect on sustainability in 2025… In 2025 the story ofContinue reading “2025 Sustainability Wrapped”

Simply having a wonderful Christmas time 🎀

Hello friends, it’s December again! Anyone else thinking that we seem to have missed a few weeks this year, we cannot nearly be at the end of 12 months again surely? But if our advent calendars are right, then we are just one week away from Christmas. It really is a wonderful time of year,Continue reading “Simply having a wonderful Christmas time 🎀”

An ordinary human’s guide to COP30 🌍

If you keep up to date with environmental/sustainability/political news in any way, then you may have heard about the recent COP30 global meeting. Billed as the meeting that would finally bring together global action on climate change – 30 is a lovely round number, it is 10 years on from the 1.5 degree commitment ofContinue reading “An ordinary human’s guide to COP30 🌍”

GLL Book Club: Less by Patrick Grant

Less by Patrick Grant ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Recently, I needed to buy some new formal clothes for my new job, in particular a few top options smart enough for meetings. I looked around various high street stores and hit the same issue each time – quality. Regardless of brand, price, even fabric, I found the majority ofContinue reading “GLL Book Club: Less by Patrick Grant”

The summer I turned sustainable 🐚☀️🌊

Happy August all! This title is a bit misleading because a) I haven’t watched TSITP as I don’t have Amazon Prime and b) I don’t think you ever ‘turn’ sustainable, and if I did have some transformative realisation, it definitely happened long before this summer! However, before the summer is up, I wanted to shareContinue reading “The summer I turned sustainable 🐚☀️🌊”

July 🦋

A bit of news and some ideas for action for the month of July. Today marks Earth Overshoot Day for 2025, the day when humanity has used up all of this year’s annual budget of natural resources. Only 7 months into the year. This is sobering news. The greed and constant want of our economicContinue reading “July 🦋”

GLL Book Club: There is no planet B by Mike Berners-Lee

There is no planet B by Mike Berners-Lee ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I’ll be honest, it has taken me a little while to get to the end of this book and get round to writing this review, but not for lack of interest or a negative reading experience. I got my (signed!) copy of this book at aContinue reading “GLL Book Club: There is no planet B by Mike Berners-Lee”