Did you know that I am starting a
Year of Ethical Feasting as part of my ethical living life project? Starting in
mid-May, I will be posting a fab, frugal and fair recipe every week for a whole year! Look
out on May 16 for my fabulously feisty chilli beans!
Also as part of my ethical living
life project I will share my super second hand finds and my ethical inspirations
(fab people doing fab things).
I am not about sharing product
reviews or information about new technologies. There are heaps of websites and
blogs catering to that market segment.
I am more interested in how to
live an ethical life with a small environmental footprint. I’m all for stepping
back from the market, buying second hand at flea markets or charity shops. I’m fascinated
by the adage: living better with less. That doesn’t mean I am not a bowerbird
that likes to collect things (I have got a pretty sizeable push-puppet
collection and enough books to fill a local library).
It does mean, however,
that I try to buy most of my consumer items second hand. I don’t want to be
preachy or just talk to the converted; I just want to put ideas out there and
raise awareness and possibly change minds.
I really think that living better
with less can be fun and certainly doesn’t have to be labourious.
I am acutely aware of the
inherent contradictions in what I am saying here about living better with less
and consumption. But it’s all part of the process in coming to terms with what
a new philosophy of consumption may look like.
xxAmanda
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