This approach not only helps me keep the costs of my projects down, but my choice to work with whatever I have access to has a smaller environmental impact. I don’t feel that having “lesser” choice of physical resources has a negative effect on my artwork; I feel it’s quite the opposite, as I’m presented…
Beauty Without Waste: What It Really Costs
For years, I only explored the food section of my local zero-waste shops, too fearful to look at the beauty products. However, the amount of packaging from the beauty products I produced a year ago made me look at the other side of zero-waste shops. At this stage of my long-term sustainability journey, I’m very…
Sustainable Reads: My Eco Booklist
I usually let the books I’m reading lead my choices, knowing that one title will reveal the next. Since most of us are stretched for time, I put together a short list of my reads. Sustainability and environmental topics are fast-changing; what was accurate a year ago may be somewhat outdated a year later, as…
A Green Christmas on a Budget
When I was growing up, Christmas was an essential part of my life for two reasons: The whole family got together at my grandparents’ flat on the 24th of December (in the Polish tradition, this is the most important day of the Christmas celebration), The Polish TV – back in the 1980s, a communist propaganda TV…
Is the State of My Garden Reflecting My Mental Health?
The business was shaped by the job I agreed to do over the summer, which pushed my anxiety and stress levels out of the charts and made me feel emotionally fragmented and overwhelmed. Physically and emotionally, I was exhausted and unable to switch off. Sadly, I brought that anxiety back to London with me. Within…
My Urban Garden: June Reflections & Progress (June 2022)
As for me, even a few short minutes a day spent among my plants gives me joy and helps me stay grounded. Unfortunately, my limited space doesn’t allow for expansion. Before I make any new additions to my garden, I need to be pretty sure that whatever plant I’m introducing will yield fruit I can…
City Roots: My Garden’s Progress Report
Since my last post in March, I’ve made a few new additions to my garden, including the compact greenhouse, proudly set up on the balcony to protect my lovely plants from the fumes (my balcony faces the parking lot for our buildings), the pigeons, which often sit above our balcony, and recently also against neighbour’s careless…
Green Dreams in a Small Space: Starting My Urban Garden in London
My first reason for starting an urban garden in a small London apartment was my desire to keep progressing on my eco-minimalist, sustainable lifestyle path. The second reason was the new documentary I have been developing since October 2021, which required me to set up a garden. I spent a lot of time on the…
Sustainability in Progress: What I’m planning 2022 to look like on My Eco-Minimalistic Sustainable Journey?
For me, 2021 was all about taking the beginner’s steps on my new eco-minimalistic journey. To make my weekly sustainable swaps, I moved my disposable income towards that goal. If the swap was too pricey, I waited until I had enough money to make the change. Pretty soon, I got into the groove of swapping,…
Small Steps, Big Impact: My Eco Highlights of 2021
” How to Be a Conscious Consumer?” was the article that started me on my journey toward more conscious, eco-minimalist living. I’m happy to report that 2021 has been a very productive year for making eco-minimalist choices and taking action (not everyone thinks and feels that individual choices matter, but I do believe that taking action…