I didn’t announce it to anyone. I didn’t permanently delete my account. I just… stopped opening Instagram. No timer. No rules. No spiritual awakening. Just a vague sense that I was spending far too much of my life staring at other people’s squares. A week later, I realised something fairly obvious in hindsight: Instagram had …
This Christmas, when my husband asked what I wanted, I surprised myself with my answer, and him too. I didn’t want clothes, a spa day, or a weekend away. I wanted one simple thing: to be alone in a quiet, dark room. No talking. No background noise. No phones. No notifications. Just silence… enough of …
We have a BIG problem here in Ireland and across the planet. I'm sure you've noticed all the rubbish lying around on your daily walk... and those bottles, wrappers and small pieces of plastic lying discarded on beaches... even as I write this I am confronted by this issue. As I look out my window …
With a 'consume now, throw away' mindset creating huge amounts of textile waste and almost 85% of all textiles now ending up in landfill each year, there has never been a better time to choose sustainable options. Fashion is the 2nd or 3rd most polluting industry in the world and makes up 10% of humanity's …
Continue reading Reduce your impact! Choose to shop sustainably.
More than 50% of fast fashion produced is disposed of in under one year. Source: Unsplash So why have shopping habits changed so much in a very short period of time? In the late 1990's fast fashion gained huge momentum with people happy to showcase their low cost fashion style to the world. Major retailers …
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr Suess
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