Category: All at Sea
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Ocean Plastic: Choices for Cruising Yachties
(Pre-Covid19, this article was scheduled for publication in Opua Yacht Club’s ‘Tell Tales’ : April 2020 issue.) The challenge of plastic in our oceans is confronting. It’d be hard to find a beach anywhere in the world these days free of plastic flotsam so perhaps we as yachties can be part of the solution? What if…
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SHOWING UP AS A ZERO WASTE GRANNY IN 2020
“Zero Waste is such a special doorway”, I explained to anyone who engaged me in conversation about my lifestyle last year. In mid-2016 when I chose to quit single-use plastic, motivated by the destruction I knew was happening in the oceans, I felt very scared. I worried that I’d miss out, make a fool of…
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A BIKE RIDE FOR WASTEAID (with Grandpa Bear)
I’m a Zero Waste Granny so combining catching up with my grandsons, a cycling adventure and Zero Waste seems obvious! After time with my family in Vietnam, I’ll be cycling from Hanoi over the mountains to Luang Prabang in Laos, a distance of 750km, to catch up with more family members. Ever worried about piles…