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Susan Stevens Susan Stevens

Why Even Super-Busy Individuals Can Live Sustainably

Sustainability can seem like a nice luxury on the surface, but for many people, it requires an extra effort. Such a perception isn’t necessarily wrong, it takes more time to separate your recyclables, to donate your old clothes, to grow your own food, and to limit your water usage. You have to live with the intent to benefit from these practices.

That being said, improvements can always be made no matter what. Sustainable living, then, becomes a matter of relativity than anything else. So, let’s consider how even those with intensive sustainability needs can live with intention, and benefit as a result.

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Susan Stevens Susan Stevens

can you use a smartphone, sustainably?

When we think about the technology we use, we very rarely consider it “sustainable” in the broader sense. After all, there’s a great deal of electronic and plastic waste that goes into tech consumerism each year, not helped by the fact that incremental and yearly product releases means the “next one up” is always a tempting upgrade proposition for many people.

For many, smartphone use is so integrated into their lives that throwing it out is neither desirable nor doable. Many of us connect with our loved ones, manage our financial affairs, and keep our days organized thanks to this portable tech. For the eco-minded amongst us, it’s worth asking a simple question - can you use a smartphone, sustainably?

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Susan Stevens Susan Stevens

Living A Sustainable Lifestyle With An Active Social Life

Despite the world starting to come up with ways to be more sustainable like paper straws there is still a lot that needs to be done. At festivals, parties and events a lot of plastic and single-use products are used for ease. This can sometimes affect how much you may want to socialise if you're going to places that aren’t very eco-friendly or with people who may not care about it as much. Here are a few ways you can still be the life of the party and live your happy sustainable life.

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Susan Stevens Susan Stevens

Could Your Business Do More To Support Sustainability

Supporting sustainability is a goal that all businesses should share in modern society. And as we head into 2024, your company must ask whether it could do more.

Going green will deliver a plethora of benefits for your business. They range from financial savings to improved reputations. Here are five ways that you can take your strategy to the next level over the months to come.

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Susan Stevens Susan Stevens

What’s Holding You Back to living A Sustainable Life?

When you are committed to living a sustainable life, there’s nothing worse than feeling your efforts are not bringing great results. So, if you feel as though you are being held back, it’s imperative you take the time to understand why. Here are five of the most common issues that stop people from achieving true conscious living…

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Susan Stevens Susan Stevens

3 Ways You Can Make More Sustainable Fashion Choices

In 2021 the world of fashion is moving at a breakneck pace, blink and there are a whole host of new trends and styles dropping on the web pages of favourite fashion outlets. Every day millions of items of clothing are flying off the shelves, however, millions of items of clothing are also being thrown away every day…

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Matt McNeil Matt McNeil

How Personal Choice Can Improve Sustainability

There are some who say voting with your wallet is more powerful than voting for your countries leader. That’s not to take away your responsibility as a citizen to vote, but it does raise the question of the impact and influence we have as consumers in our everyday life, with the everyday decisions we make.…

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Matt McNeil Matt McNeil

THE OCEAN IS OUR LIFELINE

The world ocean is essential for our own existence; producing over half the world’s oxygen, regulates our climate and weather patterns, whilst also providing food, medicine, jobs, transportation and recreation…

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Matt McNeil Matt McNeil

Did you know you are eating plastic every day?

Microplastic particles from broken-down plastic pollution and synthetic materials and ingredients have become so widespread that humans are breathing, drinking and eating them on a daily basis…

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Matt McNeil Matt McNeil

2020 was the year of Covid, what will 2021 hold?

As the world turned its eyes to a dire pandemic, another global catastrophe continued to gain steam: Climate change has been simmering since the Industrial Revolution, but 2020 was a year that really drove home how fast it's accelerating…

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