I’m developing the Earth Girl Lifestyle as my solution to help return balance and respect to the Earth via everyday low impact living.

In an ideal world, I would live self sufficiently, off the land, having zero impact. However, this is not a realistic goal from where I’ve started and I don’t believe it’s a realistic expectation of westernised societies in general. 

So I wanted to create a bridge, a stepping stone to a lifestyle that has westernised living appeal but aims to improve the health of humans AND the environment.

The Earth Girl Lifestyle is focused on healthy, low waste living. It’s about simple, effective and convenient everyday solutions for a healthier way to live on the planet. 

I have an ever inquiring mind that is constantly asking ‘how’ and ‘why’ and I’ve personally found the more I know, the less I know. It’s a continual journey of evolution which is why I love to invest my time researching, experimenting and developing simple solutions.

Writing the Earth Girl Lifestyle is an evolutionary love affair that I’m honoured to share with the world. It’s been a work in progress for many years and I’m hoping by sharing my knowledge I can help to minimise the extreme overwhelm that can be inevitable when you’re open to change and looking for solutions.

I hope this information can become a safe space for you to learn, share and grow. 

Because our modern day addiction to packaged goods is like a disease to humans AND the environment. We are polluting our bodies and the Earth to a point that is not sustainable. The balance is out and something has to give.

Plastics and synthetics are created from non-renewable resources. Supply and demand are what drive the market – the more we consume the more raw resources need to be supplied. Every piece of plastic that has ever been created still exists. Wildlife are hugely suffering from our throwaway lifestyles and the pollution that goes with it.

Our society is afforded great convenience by allowing us to place waste items in a bin and to not have to think about it again. But there is no away. Scratch a tiny bit under the surface and it’s easy to identify the waste and recycling industries are facing many problems.

Landfills are filling up and no one wants a new one in their backyard, yet we are consuming at an insatiable rate and it has to go somewhere. For recycling to truly work, items need to be processed in separated material categories. We need waste to be seen as a resource, worthy of a closed loop system.

No organisation is currently able to take responsibility for the problem – a group human effort is required. The ONLY thing that is in our control is to take personal responsibility for our own actions and actively strive to reduce our waste consumption.

Even if the world’s population were to stop using single use items tomorrow, we’d still have years of cleaning up to do – a holistic approach is required.

By taking responsibility for our daily actions we have the power to heal and transform the situation. Our daily actions COUNT and we can be our own superheroes – not just for us, but for ALL future generations. This is worth our attention, energy and commitment.

Understandably, most of the general population are not aware of the extent of the problem. Many believe being a person who knows what to put in the right bin is enough. But actually, it’s not. The solution is to focus on waste reduction and knowing how to responsibly dispose of waste that cannot be avoided.

See these bins? My whole life revolves around putting as little as possible into them. Yep, including the recycling bin. This is known as a Low Waste Lifestyle and is based on eliminating single use packaging as much as possible.

Why? Because there is no such thing as ‘away’ and single use packaging puts a mammoth demand on precious resources for an extremely short lived (and arguably selfish) product.

Did you know plastic is made from oil? And did you know oil is made from ancient plankton that died millions of years ago, which is not self renewing? Did you connect that each piece of paper or cardboard used to be a tree, which would have provided a home, shelter and protection for many species.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I know how blessed we are to have modern day luxuries that stem from mining, oil and gas and other natural resources, but I also believe these incredible resources produced from the Earth should be respected and held in the highest regard… not just turned into short term pleasures to be disposed of, in turn creating mass pollution on this beautiful planet we are lucky enough to call home.

I used to believe I was a good Earth Citizen because I used the right bin to dispose my waste and I trusted that once my bins were conveniently picked up from my roadside kerb, that waste had minimal impact on the Earth, animals or people. But then I got educated. I went to Uni, I worked as a Health Specialist in the Mining, Oil and Gas Industries, I worked at Waste and Recycling Facilities and I worked as an Environmental Officer for local Government.

I’d always been passionate about Sustainable Living, but I hadn’t paid too much attention to Waste – I thought recycling was the answer. But I now know it’s not. I now believe finding better reusable, sustainable solutions to single use packaging is the answer, and I’ve dedicated my life to the cause.

I found that by focusing on reducing my waste I could significantly improve other areas of my life that I was also passionate about, such as:

• Improving my health because I started making everything from scratch from whole ingredients.
• Improving the Earth’s health by putting less chemicals down the drain and into landfill + lessening my chance of environmental packaging pollution that can harm wildlife.
• Improving animals health and wellbeing by not buying products that have been tested on animals.
• Saving money by growing my own, buying second hand, upcycling old and pre-loved items.
• Obtaining clarity by decluttering my life and living minimalistically.
• Feeling proud that I was being part of the solution and that my lifestyle was not a contributing factor to more mines starting up.

And the list goes on..

Living a Low Waste Lifestyle requires you to adopt some back to basic, old school principles – you know, like what was normal for our grandparents. And honestly, it’s so bloody rewarding when you find a new solution that mixes old school ways with new world technologies.

To me, this is really about balance. I want my lifestyle to not only take from the Earth, but also to give back.

Although I would love all companies and people to care about Low Waste Living, I also know that is unrealistic. So, my only option is to start with me first and change my own life to fit my Low Waste Values. Does that mean I’m perfect and never use single use packaging? Absolutely not! I’m no saint, but I am committed to doing better and improving one step and solution at a time.

Low Waste Living is a personal affair that is evaluated by improving on your own personal best. The goal is long term lifestyle change via continual baby steps of improvement.

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I personally like to make things from scratch:

• So I know exactly what ingredients I’m putting onto/into my body + using around my home.
• Because I often don’t know who to trust when profit comes before planet 
• So I can get educated on ingredients, processes and how things interrelate
• Because my favourite way to learn is via experience, not theory
• Because it’s a practical creative outlet
• Because it saves me a heap of money, and often time