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Molly Farai

Ethical + Eco Living

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  • Perth Local Businesses

    Eco Home + Living

    Perth local, small businesses that need your support in 2020

    I feel for Perth’s small businesses, creatives, sole traders, and freelancers right now. The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way we do business, encouraging us to put measures in place that keep our communities safe

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  • MFARAI How to be an eco friendly cat owner

    Eco Home + Living

    How to be an Eco-friendly Cat Owner

    If you have a cat, are thinking about adopting a cat, or have a pet similar to a cat and are conscious about your environmental, social and cultural impact, then this post could be really useful for you!

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  • Conscious Christmas Gift Guide

    Eco Home + Living

    Conscious Christmas Gift Guide: a giving hierarchy

    I’m not sure about you, but I’m nowhere near completing my giving list for this Christmas. While brainstorming some different ideas for gifts, I miraculously + somewhat organically ended up making a hierarchy of giving.

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  • Eco Homewares Sustainable House Australia

    Eco Home + Living

    7 Essential Eco Homewares for Every Sustainable Australian Home

    In June 2017, I packed up my belongings and moved with my partner and my cat into a compact home in the Perth Hills. To completely understate, it was a real adventure. We tore the

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  • Perth Eco Compact Tiny Home

    Eco Home + Living

    Our Perth Compact Eco Home

    We’ve been living in what we call our ‘jungalow’ (yes, that’s a reference to Justina Blakeney’s Jungalow!) for just over a year now. When it all begun, our 5m x 6m space in Perth was more

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  • EcoSouLife Plastic-Free Biodegradable

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    EcoSouLife: Plastic-free Alternatives for Earth Day + Every Day

    About 6 months ago, I picked up a couple of reusable bamboo mugs by EcoSouLife for a camping trip. Honestly, I didn’t know much about EcoSouLife then. However, after reading their awesome recyclable stickers on

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  • Sustainable IKEA Shelves Shelfie

    Eco Home + Living

    KALLAX Shelves X The Shelfie

    IKEA’s 2017 Sustainability Report is pretty impressive and the KALLAX shelving system is super adaptable in terms of the infinite ways to use and style it – so I thought why not show you how

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  • Ethical Australian Homewares

    Eco Home + Living

    The Hunt for Ethical Australian Homewares

    As a young traveller, the sentiment ‘leave no trace’ has been eternally drilled into my head. In short, Leave No Trace represents a way of leaving minimal impact on your environment and reducing the disruption that

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    • Happy world environment day! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Happy world environment day! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Meet The King Jarrah 🌲 Over 500 years old, 2.6 meters in diameter, 45 meters (148 feet) high. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We always love stopping at notable trees when adventuring in our backyard to pay respect and connect with the vast history of the sacred land we tread on. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you for watching over us 💗
    Last night I walked outside to empty the recycling Last night I walked outside to empty the recycling bin. The crisp winter air hit my lungs like a loud, “hello, I’m here!” 🌬 It’s been a while since I walked outside and breathed air so light. There have been occasions over the past 2 years where I would step outside and inhale thick city smog as I walked past a row of townhouses to our communal bins. Something so simple as last night, stepping out, wandering through our own front garden, and taking in the vast southern sky felt like such a relief. I’ve been stumbling across a lot of these moments lately. Staying up past Glenn falls asleep, with Dinah on my thigh, under our own roof on our quiet street thinking, “how can it get any better than this?” 😌✨ Even in this terrible chaos, even in this challenging time, gratitude continues to knock on my door, popping in and surprising me every time. In these moments, I’m not sure what to do next. I haven’t been sure for a few months now. There are many paths before me. I know that. But I think I’m comfortable staying right here, with Glenn asleep next to me and Dinah on my thigh, as I dream into the southern sky, cradled between the oak moss walls of our own home on our quiet street... for just a little while longer 💚
    I don't have the answers, but I have a lot of ques I don't have the answers, but I have a lot of questions. What's more important to you: soul work or social justice work? Can you even separate the two?
    Huge congratulations to Jess and the team at @myhu Huge congratulations to Jess and the team at @myhumbleearth on the rebrand of their period undies!! Emflower 🌻 (get it, like 'empower'!) [PR sample/affiliate] I'm a huuuuuuge fan of period undies and have been using them for over 2 years now. Not only is plastic in period products super concerning (#EndPeriodPlastic @elladaish), but on average, we menstruators will dispose of over 11,000 disposable pads and tampons our lifetimes. That's a LOT of single-use plastic waste and a lot of money spent on period products. The answer is to try out the alternatives: cups, undies, and organic products. These alternatives aren't a rare occurrence anymore is Aus (yay) and are arguably more convenient than your average pad or tampon 👌🏼 A pleasure to have supported this local Perth biz @myhumbleearth over the past few years in their mission to reduce single-use plastic. I've been testing out their undies over the past few months and am happy to report back that they measure up to other popular brands I've tried. So, if you want the peace of mind plus supporting small and local (and vegan friendly!), check them out @emflower.co 🌻 Use 'MOLLY' at checkout for 15% off while they're still available on @myhumbleearth 🌏💙
    Last night’s supermoon and some moon history for Last night’s supermoon and some moon history for you 🌝👇 All around the world, there are stories about and names for the moon and its cycles. While the Gregorian calendar months are mainly used to mark the moon today (e.g. the April full moon), many cultures used to (and still do) label a cycle of 12 to 13 lunations around the weather, seasons, activities, plants and/or animals of that particular moon cycle. Link to a NASA article in my bio if you want to know more about different cultures, not just the Northern Hem. & the West. The Pink Moon, from what I know (which isn’t much – still learning), was published in the Farmer’s Almanac, a North American periodical which shared both Native American and Colonial American moon names, many coming also from European tradition. The Pink Moon is named after the wild phlox, a pink flower of this time of year in North America. So, while the current moon cycle in the North/West is the Pink Moon/Seed Moon/Egg Moon and so forth, depending on the culture, it feels disconnected to use these names in Australia at the moment (and maybe even year round), where the seasons we experience are not only different to Europe and North America, but vary even throughout the country. In Southern Hemisphere Pagan/Celtic communities (which I am actually familiar with), it’s common to flip the cycles around and use the moon names for the opposite time of year, just like how our seasons are seemingly opposite. So, this current lunation becomes the Hunter’s Moon/Blood Moon/Harvest Moon or many more depending on the culture. As somebody who lives on Noongar Boodja, vastly different to Ireland, I’m still finding it difficult to reconcile my own cultural practices with Country and the activities and environment of this region during this time of year. Is it still the Ivy Moon if all of the ivy is introduced? Is it still the Harvest Moon if it is Djeran, not ‘harvest season’? I don’t have the answers, but remembering where language comes from is important, and I think it’s worth putting the question out there.
    Yesterday's misty morning in the South West 🌞 Yesterday's misty morning in the South West 🌞 This weekend was our first adventure in what feels like a very, very long time but it certainly didn't feel like an escape. With a lockdown announced back home as we were arriving at our destination, it became the most unexpected weekend but we did our best to remember that it was a trip with purpose! So happy that we could be there to see our friends finally get married in the most enchanting patch of Jarrah forest 🦘 A timely reminder that love is always the answer ✨💚

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