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Musings in a climate crisis, wrestling with the big ideas, ups and downs of a newbie activist

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Guilty Digital Nomad? One tried and tested way to offset your emissions ✈️

Scroll down ⬇️ to see the 3 steps I use to offset my flight emissions. One question I get asked a lot is, “How can you be a digital nomad AND ca

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BinnUp: cutting student waste with new rental scheme

While interrailing through Eastern Europe and visiting Impact Hubs along the way I learned of Natasa Kurucki. With her fingers in many projects she is

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Life-long activism

I had the good fortune to meet Anitra at the bi-annual International Degrowth Conference in Malmo Sweden this summer. It was my first real foray into

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BearHugs: On a mission to spread as much love as possible.

Next up in our Inspiring Activist series we speak to Faye, who may have the best job title ever, she is the Chief Sender of Hugs at BearHugs. This ent

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Sprouting her first seeds: a photo diary

Inspired by the Mothers of Invention podcast and facilitated by a timely trip to the Vegan Fair Tallinn I have just started sprouting my own seeds.Ok,

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Curious reducetarian faces the music

I’m not a vegan but today I attended my first vegan fair. In Tallinn, Estonia. I’ve slowly been digesting the recent IPCC report that came

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Back-to-the-landers in Galicia

It’s hard not to fall in love with Galicia, north-west Spain. Once you find yourself there it’s then not hard to fall in love with the cul

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Zero-Waste: spreading the word in Budapest

While interrailing around Europe in Spring and visiting Impact Hubs along the way, I had the pleasure to meet Dora, zero-waster and fellow minimist an

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