This post is a part of Simplify and Green Up Your Life Challenge. City life often means navigating a concrete jungle. Ever-increasing housing density means our homes are becoming smaller and smaller, and many of us now live in small spaces with limited access to nature or views of it. Now more than ever is…
Today on Eco Chat – a Wales-based young and ambitious eco-designer Beth Cosmos. After going to music festivals across the UK she noticed that hundreds of tents were left for waste. The tents were made of good material: sturdy, waterproof and sadly destined for a landfill where it would never fully decompose. Seeing them gave her the idea…
If you’re looking to escape the hustle of daily life, Forest Bathing could be the answer. Developed in Japan, the idea of Forest Bathing (Shinrin Yoku) is more or less: go be in nature, a little more deliberately than usual. Walk without trying to reach a destination and open your senses. Let nature enter through your…
“Time spent in nature heels your body, mind and spirit” Nature is indeed the best physician. Whenever you feel physically and emotionally drained, the best medicine isn’t found in a pill bottle but rather in the forest, at the shores of the ocean or at the top of a mountain. There is one place not too far…
“The plastic we throw away in a single year could circle the earth four times” This book is a part of Eco Book Club – a club for sustainability enthusiasts and book lovers. Lucy Siegle is an environmental journalist. The book “Turning the tide on plastic” follows her own journey in plastics over a number of years.…