Old ripple protein jars to cute new herb planters! (Repurpose/DIY)
My friend suggested adding some decoration. I’m thinking metallic sharpie geo patterns…but not today.
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Paid for our gas hot water heater to be fixed instead of buying a whole new unit (equivalent price for part + standard service). We plan on switching to solar hot water in a few years so getting a new gas heater now makes zero sense.
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Rehomed a bunch of shipping boxes to a grateful recipient! She gets moving boxes and I get to clear out my closet 
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Yay! I’m pretty solidly intermediate
And Sunday night as the plague was closing in I used my produce bags for the first time. It looks like at the cheapest supermarket they don’t tare, so it costs 10g x the price each time. Something to watch for when I’m buying expensive items there
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Daycare handed me a stuffed toy and a scrapbook yesterday. Turns out we’re meant to take photos of the stuffed toy demonstrating our family’s sustainable practices, and stick the photos in the scrapbook.
I’m trying to think outside the easy ones everyone else has done on their week - there are already lots of photos of keepcups, reusable shopping bags, herb gardens and recycling bins. I’m thinking cloth nappies, solar, active transport, maybe the worm farm?
I find the designation of some actions a bit arbitrary - there are advanced things I’ve been doing for years, and beginner things I’m still working on.
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Yes to the worm farm! If you find a way to get good pictures let me know, I’m a little obsessed with my worms but they aren’t instagramable 
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I treat is as a magazine quiz…
10/12 beginner
6/12 intermediate
6/10 advanced
2 expert
So I’m ranking myself intermediate which is heartwarming because I often feel a failure
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Put the call out on Buy Nothing for summer PJs in the right size for Ewok. Pretty sure we have enough summer clothes otherwise, but I’ll check that over the long weekend.
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My office building doesn’t recycle at all so the past week I’ve decided to carry home one recyclable waste item with me…because why the hell not. Yesterday it was a plastic coffee creamer canister, today some envelopes. It’s such a small thing but I like doing it because it’s Weird and helps me feel a little in control of the waste that flows through my sphere of influence as a worker in a capitalist society. If anyone has tips on how I can convince the offices property company to start recycling, let me know
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Very small thing: made sure to prep veg so we would eat it instead of wasting it.
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A stuffed toy in a cloth nappy 
Possibly sitting next to Ewok in a cloth nappy?
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He puts cloth nappies on his soft toys sometimes when we’re playing babies and it is every bit as cute as you’re thinking.
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Yesterday I personally asked ten people to sign a petition to debate the climate emergency in parliament. I figured that targeting people on a person-to-person basis would be more effective than sharing it on FB given that so many of my FB friends had already shared it, indicating they’d signed it.
Sharing the “eco warrior rating scale” image on FB started some good conversations both on FB and off it about what people are focusing on to reduce their impact.
A work friend reached out to me about solar panels for her new house.
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Three things I could do TODAY to reduce my impact:
- Write up the meal plan and fridge contents on the fridge.
- Not have a pod coffee; make a concerted effort to quit those fucking pods for good.
- Sell or give away some clothes that I’m not wearing to keep them in circulation.
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I’ve dabbled. I worked at a landfill as an undergraduate and do waste management in my current role. It’d be a depressing field to try and make changes in. No one is prepared to pay to manage waste properly. The industry is pretty rogue at times.
At our site in Port Hedland we compact the 1t bulkabags (big fertiliser bags) into little cubes do they can be transported for reprocessing and recycling. The one place in Perth that was taking them stopped a few years ago so now we have a stockpile. Local landfill wants $880/t to dispose of them (outrageous) and unsustainable. Tough business waste management.
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This reminded me I want to get a metal filter for my coffee, so I don’t keep using paper ones when I splurge on coffee. Already got the loose leaf tea down pat, now for the coffee. 
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I had a large piece of black plastic from packaging for a computer part. Instead of throwing it in the bin, I’ve laid it over some weeds I want to kill. I hope I can use it many times before it needs to be thrown away.
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Since our coffee machine broke I’ve been drinking plunger coffee. It’s actually pretty good now that I’ve worked out I like it with a lot of milk.
The toddler and I took the train and then walked to playgroup.
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So a couple of years ago we started doing “if it’s yellow, let it mellow” a lot more. But the problem is that the pee would really smell and make the toilet itself stink badly! I tried a product called Let It Mellow which was extremely effective but also very expensive.
Finally I decided to look into other products, and tried citric acid powder. It’s not quite as effective, but it works and it’s not that expensive. I’ve been refilling the Let It Mellow shaker bottle and I think we’ll save a lot of water this way!
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