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About Lindsay (Treading My Own Path)

My name's Lindsay Miles and I’m a sustainable living advocate: a writer, workshop facilitator, speaker, blogger, events co-ordinator and all-round people-and-planet lover.

I believe…

…Sustainability isn’t just about big-picture stuff like “saving the rainforests”. It is as much about the little things we do and the choices we make every day. Collectively our choices have massive consequences, and if we make them wisely, we have the power to bring about real, positive change.

…Living a sustainable lifestyle is fun! It’s all about making time for things that matter; reconnecting with the earth and the seasons; making the most of what we have and wasting less; buying less stuff and having more experiences; learning, growing, and sharing; meeting like-minded people and strengthening our communities.

…We are all on different journeys, and we mustn’t judge others for what they do and don’t do. Nor should we use other people’s choices to justify our own lack of action! We have the power to inspire and to motivate, and we can lead by example.

…We only have one life…so let’s make it count. No-one can do everything. But everyone can do something.

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REDcycle’s soft plastic collection suspension – and why it might be a good thing

29 Comments/in Plastic Free Living, Zero Waste/by Lindsay (Treading My Own Path)

It’s National Recycling Week and everyone is talking about the big news announced yesterday – the news that REDcycle suspended soft plastic collection from Coles/Woolworths stores across Australia. Because of this, soft plastic will no longer be recycled, and instead will be heading to landfill for the foreseeable future. What is REDcycle? REDcycle is the main […]

Keeping chickens: Omlet walk-in run and PoleTree review

14 Comments/in Permaculture Gardening/by Lindsay (Treading My Own Path)

I dreamed of keeping chickens for a good fifteen years before I finally had the space and time to accommodate them. And it’s the best decision I ever made – they are such fluffy bundles of sass and personality and charm. They make me laugh every day. Two-and-a-half years ago, my first little flock (consisting […]

Picking olives for oil – how to produce enough oil for a year when you don’t own any olive trees

9 Comments/in Community, Sustainable Food, Zero Waste/by Lindsay (Treading My Own Path)

Ah, the annual olive oil harvest. For the last several years, I’ve dedicated a weekend to picking olives and sending them to an olive press to extract the oil. This gives me enough olive oil to last me for a year. And I don’t own any olive tress. Every year I’ll post about it on […]

How I started a community street planting project

15 Comments/in Community, Garden/by Lindsay (Treading My Own Path)

When I moved to the street where I now live two-and-a-half years ago, I immediately noticed the weedy strip of land at the end of it. My street is a cul-de-sac, but at some stage in the past it must have been a through-road to the street behind, because there is still a road-width strip. […]

7 common recycling mistakes that people make (+ what to do instead)

28 Comments/in Living With Less Waste, Zero Waste/by Lindsay (Treading My Own Path)

Talking enthusiastically about recycling might feel like stepping back into the nineties, when most of us thought (didn’t we?) that recycling was an effective way to combat climate change. (Or was that just me…?) A few decades on and the pressing issues of the day have most definitely scaled up. But recycling hasn’t gone away… […]

Low waste living: when to borrow and when to buy

9 Comments/in Less Stuff, Zero Waste/by Lindsay (Treading My Own Path)

As someone who tries to live a low waste, less stuff lifestyle, it won’t surprise you that I’m a cheerleader for borrowing. (I’m not sure that there’s a single mantra for low waste living, but if there was, ‘use what you have’, ‘make do’ and ‘borrow don’t buy’ would probably be hot contenders.) It’s no […]

Seven ways I’m retrofitting my house for energy efficiency in a changing climate

33 Comments/in Climate action/by Lindsay (Treading My Own Path)

Where I live, it’s getting hotter. This summer we’ve just seen a record-breaking heatwave of six days above 40°C. There’s been a few other records broken, too. Including, the highest number of days over 40°C between December and February – and we are not yet even through January. Every year we seem to be* (*we […]

5 ways you can give back to your community (even under lockdown)

10 Comments/in Climate action, Community/by Lindsay (Treading My Own Path)

Something I’m working to do more of this year is contribute more to my local community and those with less. If 2020 taught me anything, it was that local resilient communities are so important for those that live in them, and the support networks that a good community can offer are priceless. The other lesson […]

From landfill to refill: cleaning products that clean the ocean

22 Comments/in Living With Less Waste, Zero Waste/by Lindsay (Treading My Own Path)

This post is a sponsored collaboration with Zero Co. When I started my waste journey back in 2012, I primarily wanted to reduce my plastic. A few month in I realised that reducing waste isn’t just about the plastic, and so I worked on reducing all my single-use packaging – metals, paper, cardboard, steel and […]

Not buying it: 5 tips for buying less stuff

38 Comments/in Less Stuff/by Lindsay (Treading My Own Path)

The world doesn’t have a recycling crisis, it has an overconsumption crisis. These words (by my friend Oberon, author of the book The Family Guide to Waste-Free Living) ring true to my ears. Sure, we need returnable packaging and reusable products and fixable items, single-use items that compost, products that are designed to last, and […]

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