Category Archives: Thoughts

We often frame climate action and sustainability in a purely environmental dimension. Something that brings benefits we know are logically important but may not materialise into benefits for ourselves. But what if we change the way we think about sustainability to aim for a future we all want. The best way of summarising this ideaContinue reading “What’s the best that could happen?”

By this point I think many of us are familiar with the idea of climate change – it’s causes and consequences for humanity. Rising sea levels, more frequent natural hazards and loss of our beautiful Earth’s biodiversity. This alone should be enough to scare most of humanity into action. And yet it doesn’t. Because weContinue reading “What should we fear more – climate change or lifestyle change?”

Eco-anxiety is a fairly new term which describes someone’s anxious response to the prospect of environmental damage and collapse. This may be something you have experienced, or maybe just something you relate to after reading this post, but hopefully today we can take some positive steps to turn anxiety into action. I can vividly rememberContinue reading “Eco-anxiety”

I don’t know how many of you have questioned the name of this blog. It is in fact not named after the leaves of a ginger plant, lovely as I’m sure they are, but represent the 3 strands of this blog. Leaf represents the environment and nature, Living represents the change to a sustainable lifestyleContinue reading “POV: Is Gingerism a thing?”

Ya what? Sustainability, eco-friendly, green, conscious, ethical, clean…. all words we hear a lot of right now. But how do we know which words are translating into actions and which are empty? Is this just a trend or marketing or can it really be sustained? Recently, I read March’s issue of British Vogue – inContinue reading “Making Sustainability Sustainable”

If we act now. If. Such a small word that excuses so much. As if we have a choice: face the problem or catch that plane and deal with it tomorrow. As if there is still time. Climate change has been introduced as a concept and put forward as an issue for a long time,Continue reading “Call to arms”

Climate change and biodiversity loss is the biggest problem we face as a planet. It impacts every human and living organism who calls this planet home, and it will take every human making a difference to preserve and improve our Earth for everyone. Climate change will not discriminate. Sea levels will rise, species will goContinue reading “Why everyone must be on board to combat climate change”

Hi there and welcome to Ginger Leaf Living! This is a blog for topical, fun and interesting subjects that are important right now….. with a few random posts thrown in! A key focus here is sustainability in everyday life and hopefully this blog will inspire as many people as possible to create positive changes forContinue reading “So………… I started a blog!”