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Butterfly Pea Flower Recipes

Clitoria ternatea or Butterfly Pea Flowers are a super plant you've likely never heard of - unless of course you originate from a Southeast Asian countries where they are more...

The Yearly Christmas Debate: Real or Fake Tree?

You might be asking yourself this year - should I replace my old Christmas tree with a new store bought one? Perhaps you've just moved into a new home and...

DIY Chocolate Bark with Dried Berries

Cocoa butter - it's an ingredient that you may associate with cooking or more specifically with chocolate. But cocoa butter isn't just used to make chocolate, or your favourite hot...

Plastic Free Places
Helping businesses reduce single use plastic

I sat down with Helen Reilly, the Project Coordinator for Plastic Free Cairns and Douglas, to discuss the Boomerang Alliance's national program - Place Free Places. Boomerang Alliance is a...

Plastic Pollution and the Silicone Solution

Plastic pollution, climate change
and the silicone solution

If you care about climate change you should care about plastic pollution as well. Many people make the connection with plastic being bad for the environment, as they see first...

Countdown to an Eco-friendly Christmas

The horrors of a plastic Halloween are over - it's now time to switch gears to Christmas. But it that doesn't mean we have to endure another overload of plastic....

5 Great Reasons to Celebrate Bamboo

September 18 is World Bamboo Day, a day that's dedicated to increasing the awareness of bamboo globally. You may be wondering - what's so special about bamboo that it deserves...

Zero Waste Week

Are you familiar with zero waste week? Perhaps you've heard of zero waste and thought "that's ridiculous it's not possible to create no waste". You'd be correct with those thoughts,...