As the year comes to a close, I wanted to share a round-up of the most popular posts about low waste, plant-based, simple living from the last twelve months including ways to simplify your life, tips on going zero waste, how to adopt a vegan lifestyle, and slow travel guide inspiration. This year in review is a chance to re-read the most helpful articles or catch up the ones you might have missed. Hopefully you'll discover something to inspire you as we move into a fresh new year. See you in 2020!
Simple Living
A Guide To Sustainable Living
Simple New Year Resolutions
Sustainable Living Apps
Simple living means making changes so that you can be kinder to yourself, to others, and to the planet. It might start by making room in your life for the things that matter the most to you, like decluttering and simplifying your home; extending out to the low waste habits you adopt, the clothes you buy, the makeup you wear, and the food you eat.
Slow Travel
Travel Accessories To Help Pack Light and Reduce Waste
A Slow Travel Checklist
It was a year of no air travel for me, which meant exploring more of England, Scotland, and Wales via public transport. Hopefully these popular slow travel posts will help you to be more eco-friendly and reduce waste while you're travelling. Don't forget to take a look at my slow travel guides for suggestions on where to visit next.
Sustainable Style
Quitting Fast Fashion
How To Create A Capsule Wardrobe Using What You Already Own
How To Create A Sustainable Wardrobe
If you're in doubt about why we should all be working hard to change our shopping habits, watch The The True Cost documentary. Fast fashion is destroying the planet, exploiting workers, and abusing animals. It's not only wasting valuable resources, it’s contributing to the climate crisis. There are so many ways we can shop more responsibly from reducing the amount we buy to thrifting for the things we want.
Capsule Wardrobes
A Minimalist Skincare Capsule
A Minimalist Makeup Capsule
Despite focusing on an all-seasons wardrobe with versatile pieces that can be worn all year; putting together seasonal capsules has been a really useful tool for shaping my personal style and keeping my wardrobe purchases to a minimum. Extending the capsule method to skincare and makeup has revolutionised my routine and further simplified my life.
Thrifting
A Year Of Second-Hand Shopping
A No-Spend Month
My year of shopping second-hand really opened my eyes to how much unwanted stuff there is and how wonderfully resourceful thrifting can be. I've saved a lot of money by not buying new and purchasing everything I want pre-loved.
Zero Waste Living
Zero Waste Swaps I'm Not Making
A Beginner's Guide To Zero Waste
Minimalism and Zero Waste
Zero waste living encourages us to buy less, choose well, make do or do without, and to fully use up our stuff until there's nothing left so we can live a less wasteful, more meaningful life: start here.
Wasteful Things I Still Buy
A Simplified Cleaning Routine
Eco-Friendly Cleaning
Arguably there are much more important issues to tackle than blaming individuals for their personal consumption of plastic-wrapped produce and disposable single-use items. But that doesn't pardon us from our personal responsibility to do our best as individuals to reduce our consumption of unnecessarily wasteful things. Dig into the archives to find ways to reduce your impact and live a zero waste lifestyle.
Decluttering
A New Year Wardrobe Declutter
Decluttering For A Fresh Start
Get rid of the unwanted stuff in your life to make room for the things you care about the most but declutter responsibly and change your habits or else you'll find the clutter creeps back in.
Veganism
Go Vegan: What, Why, and How?
How To Eat Sustainbly
Reasons To Go Vegan
Veganism is a social justice movement that strives to end all oppression by making better choices about the things we buy, wear, and eat as well as advocating for political, social, and economic change.