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A Sustainable Life with Jen Gale

Jen Gale

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[039] RECYCLE YOUR PADDLING POOL WITH WYATT & JACK

A Sustainable Life with Jen Gale ·

2019/07/03

If you're anything like us the kids start to clamour for a paddling pool as soon as the weather gets above 18C and we have one sunny day, we get one, spend hours (and use lots of precious water) filling it, they play in it for about three seconds, and decide it's too cold, or […]

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[038] EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT...

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2019/06/26

DID YOU KNOW?We only have around 30- 40 years of fertile soil left in the UK? And golabally optimistic estimates are around 60 years. The problem is that modern agricultural practices take out more from the soil than they put back in, leaving it depleted of the nutrient that plants need to grown. And as […]

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[037] HOW AND WHY TO SET UP A REUSABLE PARTY PACKAGE...

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2019/06/18

Kids birthday parties can be a nightmare when it comes to the waste and plastic tat that they generate. Yet we all want our little darlings to have a fun and memorable party don't we? And ideally we want to do it with the least amount of stress and work! I’m sure we’re all familiar with […]

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[036] HOW TO TALK TO OUR KIDS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

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2019/06/12

Today I’m chatting to Helen and Joe, co-founders of EcoTales, who have been friends since meeting each other at school at the age of 12. EcoTales is a podcast for primary school children that aims to share nature knowledge and inspire future generations to love and defend the planet. And it does it brilliantly through […]

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[035] #BLEEDREDTHINKGREEN – THE WORLD’S FIRST...

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2019/06/04

In this episode I’m chatting to Celia Pool one of the co-founders of DAME – a sustainable self-care brand on a mission to turn our bathrooms green.Did you know that globally we throw away 100 billion sanitary products every year? Which is enough to circle the globe 250 times. Plastic tampon applicators are a big […]

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[034] #NONEWJUNE WITH MCR LOVE YOUR CLOTHES

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2019/05/29

Every year an estimated 300,000 tonnes of used clothing goes to landfill in the UK.In the UK we buy more clothes per person than any other country in Europe.It takes over 2000 litres of water to make one single cotton t-shirt.17% of young people said they wouldn’t wear an outfit again if it had been […]

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[033] ECOBRICKS – ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED!

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2019/05/22

If you've not got time to listen to the podcast or read the whole post, scroll to the end for the 'take home' points! Ecobricks. Plastic bottles packed with clean and dry plastic that can then be used literally as building bricks for a whole variety of structures. They seem to the the marmite of […]

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[032] – THE INTROVERTS GUIDE TO CLIMATE MARCHES (OR...

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2019/05/15

I'm not sure about you, but I've sat behind my phone or my laptop on social media watching the youth climate marches, and the Extinction Rebellion protests with a mixture of gratitude, and awe, maybe a little bit of envy. And I've also curled up inside at the thought of going along myself. I feel like […]

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[031] PLASTIC FREE PERIODS AND WIPES WITH SUSIE...

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2019/05/08

If you've not got time to listen to the podcast or read the whole post, scroll to the end for the 'take home' points! When I was first approached to ask if I would be interested in interviewing the Susie Hewson, the founder of Natracare about their new safe to flush wipes my instant response […]

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[030] SISTERS AGAINST PLASTIC

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2019/05/01

How do you feel when you open your bin to throw something away? Or after you've done your weekly shop? Smug and self-congratulatory at just how little single use plastic there is? Or like most of us, guilty and overwhelmed by quite how much there is?Teresa Walters was faced with a whole bin full of […]

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[029] THE END OF TOYBOX CLUTTER? WITH NIGEL PHAN FROM...

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2019/03/27

Did you know that on average kids in the UK receive around £350 of toys a year? I was pretty shocked when I read this, and indignantly though to the myself "there’s no way that applies to my kids", especially as we buy the vast majority of their toys secondhand. But when I stopped and […]

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[028] BUY LESS, BUY BETTER WITH TARA BUTTON FROM BUY...

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2019/03/20

In today’s episode I'm chatting to Tara Button, the founder and CEO of Buy Me Once, and author of A Life Less Throwaway. After receiving a Le Crueset saucepan as a gift, Tara set out to look for a website that sold "the Le Crueset of everything" - meaning products that are made to last, […]

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[027] THE WORLD’S MOST SUSTAINABLE PET FOOD – WITH...

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2019/03/12

Welcome back to Sustainable(ish)!Today I’ve got an interview lined up for you with Tom Neish who is the founder and head honcho of Yora pet food, a new pet food brand that claim to be the world’s most sustainable pet food.So what makes them so sustainable I hear you ask? Well I’m glad you asked. It’s […]

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[026] 5(ISH) MINUTE GUIDE TO…A SUSTAINABLE(ISH) LENT

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2019/03/05

It's pancake day - hurray! Which means it's the start of Lent tomorrow - traditionally 40 days and 40 nights of fasting before Easter to remember Jesus' time in the wilderness.Now I’ve never really done Lent, but it’s a time of year when some people choose to take on a challenge and give up something they […]

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[025] A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO GROW YOUR OWN – WITH SARA...

A Sustainable Life with Jen Gale ·

2019/02/28

Today’s episode is all about Growing Your Own. It’s the stereotypical image of sustainable living isn’t it? The kind of Good Life image of being self sufficient in veg, and the temptation is to go all out right from the start, take on a huge allotment plot, and then before we know it it’s taken […]

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[024] – 5(ISH) MINUTE GUIDE – SUSTAINABLE(ISH) DAYS OUT

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2019/02/19

It's half-term here in my corner of the UK, so I'm sharing with you some ideas for easy swaps and tips to help make your days out more sustainable(fish). Please do still listen if you're kid free, as most of the tips apply to grown ups too (maybe not the tantrums in the gift shop. […]

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[023] – 5(ISH) MINUTE GUIDE – CREATING NEW...

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2019/02/13

In this episode of the podcast I've got another 5(ish) minute guide for you - this time with some tips and ideas creating new, more sustainable(ish) habits. It's very easy to have all good intentions, and to WANT to do things differently, but when we're busy and frazzled, those good intentions can all too easily […]

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[022] – STYLISH SUSTAINABLE LIVING WITH PEBBLE MAGAZINE

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2019/02/05

Georgina Wilson-Powell is the founder and editor of Pebble - an online magazine and brand for 'stylish, sustainable living' that aims to empower people to make more ethical everyday decisions. In this episode I chat to her about all things sustainable (including finding a more exciting word for 'sustainable'!), hear about the projects that Pebble […]

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[021] – 5(ISH) MINUTE GUIDE – OVERCOMING OVERWHELM

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2019/01/29

Welcome back to the Sustainable(ish) podcast and to Season 2!This season I've got some cracking guest lined up to inspire us all as well as some bite sized "5(ish) minute guides" where I'll try and to help you out with a sustainable(ish) problem in just 5(ish) minutes (the 'ish' is important here, as I'm discovering […]

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[020] – REASONS TO SCREW BLACK FRIDAY

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2018/11/20

The kids are back to school and now there is no denying that we're on the downhill slope to Christmas and the biggest consumer festival of the year.Which brings with it not only a dose of magic and goodwill to all (hopefully) but also the stress, the overwhelm and All The Stuff.In this episode I […]

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