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Sometimes I wish I could give up.
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Dear friends, family and followers, Sometimes I wish I could just give up. And I bet you wish I would too sometimes… ;-) Give up going on and on (and on) about the climate crisis. Stop banging on about taking climate action. Quit posting things on social media that make my friends feel anxious, overwhelmed, panicked, uncomfortable, stressed. I know I seem always happy, always confident, always positive, but there is part of me that is simply desperate to give up. To just stop. To walk away. To no longer feel the despair, the...
Easy Ways to Help the Climate that Ease Anxiety, but Don’t Cost Much Time or Money
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Top feelings are: (TLDR – skip to How to Help - when you don’t have much time 👇) Thank you First of all a HUGE thank you to everyone who answered my recent survey, I really appreciate it. The responses will give me a better understanding of people’s thoughts and feelings, and help me shape the content I create for my work and how I can best support people. Contented Earth Climate Survey January 2025 Secondly, if you haven’t yet responded, but still want to do so you can do so using the following links: 1) For...
🌱 63 Plastic Free & Reusable Products for Plastic Free July 🌱
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Plastic seems to be everywhere. At times it can feel unavoidable (especially in recent months), despite us all knowing that it takes between 500-1,000 years to break down. And even then, what is left is harmful micro-plastics that pollute our environment, water systems, food chains, oceans and ultimately our bodies. But it IS possible to make swaps. There ARE plastic free alternatives out there. Plastic Free July is a personal challenge that is part of a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans,...
Plastic Free Packaging from The Contented Company
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Sending you your eco-friendly items totally plastic free is one of our core values at The Contented Company. Whilst no-one can ever be perfect, making the best possible choice available at every decision. And this is what we do, from the moment your order arrives with us, to when it is on its way. 1. Order received It would be great to go totally paperless, but to ensure that each order contains the correct products, I'm afraid I still need to print packing slips. However, the paper we use is (almost always) recycled, recyclable (of course) and un-bleached. And each...
Reducing My Family's Carbon Footprint: Our Carbon ‘Foodprint’
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As you are probably aware, I am looking at ways for our family to reduce our carbon footprint. The first area I looked at was our upcoming car change and whether we could improve our carbon footprint in that area. But another area we are also looking at in tandem with this, is changing our diet to help reduce our carbon footprint. The impact of food on our family’s carbon footprint Depending on which study you look at, the production of food and drink makes up around 15-25% of the total greenhouse gas emissions for the UK – that’s...
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