Modern living and toxins often go hand in hand, but there’s plenty of ways we can reduce our exposure. The food we eat has a massive impact on our health, and naturally, what we feed our children directly impacts their current and future health.

In this episode I catch up with naturopath Jessica Donovan to discover how parents can best fuel their kids for a happy, vibrant, toxin-free life.

We discuss:

• Why it’s particularly important to clean up our kids environment and diet
• Typical health issues in children and causes of current epidemic conditions
• Why good nutrition is more important now than ever before for our children
• Clear action steps you can take to improve your child’s health
• How to best fuel your kids with good food without becoming overly obsessive about it
• How you can be best supported to learn more about how to fuel your kids with good food.

If you’re keen to learn more on this important topic, Jessica is hosting a FREE “Wholefoods for Kids” webinar on Tuesday the 12th of July.

Be sure to register your seat here.

From 12 July 2016 you’ll also be able to join Jessica’s Natural Super Kids online program and you can always follow Jessica at Energetic Mama.

Are you keen to reduce your home energy consumption (and power bills) this winter but don’t know where to start?

In this episode I’ll share some home energy tips to help you reduce your household’s energy consumption throughout the cooler months, without compromising your lifestyle, including:

• The highest energy use areas of an average home
• The optimum temperature to maintain your heating thermostats for best efficiency
• Three ways to prevent heat loss from your home
• My three best hot water service energy saving tips 

If you’re keen to learn tips on how you can make your home more energy efficient check out my FREE 5 Day Home Energy Challenge.

If you’re ready to step up even further and fully maximise the savings that come by reducing your home energy consumption, check out greenHOUSE Home Energy Blitz. This program is delivered by 21 bite-sized emails, where much like if you had a home energy auditor beside you, I share all the tips, tricks and little tweaks you need to make around your home to help you save heaps of energy and money!

Even when you have meal planning seemingly under control, your household can still generate a fair amount of food scraps that can easily end up in the rubbish bin.

Whether it’s scraps from peeling and topping and tailing vegetables, or scrapings from dinner plates (or meals your kids have decided to turn their noses up at), there’s several options available to turn these scraps into something useful and keep them out of your bin…. and local landfill!

In this episode I’ll share my three favourite ways to keep food scraps out of the rubbish bin.

Keen to learn more?

• Click here to buy a Bokashi Bin.
• Click here to discover what it takes to set up a worm farm.
• Click here to discover 7 Reasons to Keep Chickens.

Cultivating a “waste not want not” mindset in the kitchen when it comes to food scraps has plenty of benefits for your household. By reusing, composting or feeding food scraps to productive pets, you’ll not only keep rotting smells out of your bin, you’ll help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save money and create some useful by-products along the way!!!!

There are loads of options out there when considering a fertilizer but animal manure (we call it poo at our place!) is my number one go-to. 

In this episode I share:

• Why You Should Choose an Animal Poo Over Synthetic Fertilizer
• How to Apply Animal Manure to Your Garden
• Which Animal Poo is Best to Use as Garden Fertilizer?

Animal poo is a great way to keep your veggie garden happy without resorting to commercial fertilizers.

Happy gardening!

Eating sustainably is quite possibly the biggest impact we can make to improve the condition of the global environment. Choosing to eat organic, local produce, taking steps to eliminate food waste and reducing your meat consumption will make a significantly positive change to your health, bank balance and the state of the world. 

In this episode I share some of my best tips on sustainable eating including:

• What is a Sustainable Diet?
• Why Is Sustainable Eating Important?
• What is the Most Sustainable Diet?
• What is an Ecotarian?
• Where Does Meat Fit Into This Picture?
• Can Eating Meat Be Sustainable?

Remember, the choices you make and the dollars you spend today shape the world of tomorrow and everyone can make a difference.

So, what changes will you make to your diet to ensure it’s more sustainable?

If you’re keen to discover 10 easy pantry switches you can make to eco-fy your pantry click here.

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