Taking Stock

So before I start I thought I better take stock of what resources I have available. We live in a rented property, it's not a bad size 640ish square meters. Which is actually quite big for the area. We don't have a water tank (although I did ask the landlord if they had some spare cash lying around if they could put one in). We don't have solar (no real surprises there). We have a strip of garden bed about 1m wide at the back but most of the plants in there have died in the drought.

Here are some of the pictures I have taken of the yard before we begin the journey.

A beginning

So here I begin. I realised something the other day. I don't have confidence that the governments/ powers that be are going to get coordinated to so anything significant about climate change. And it's not even just climate change. The Murray Darling River system is polluted at the source; Adelaide could run out of water; and don't get me started about the Snowy River. The oceans are becoming acidic, they don't think the Great Barrier Reef can be saved, and apparently there is a huge sea of rubbish floating around the ocean bigger than Victoria! Salinity, species extinction,the list goes on... this is not a legacy I want to leave to my children. So what to do?

I live in the suburbs with my husband and two small boys (ages 2 and 1 years). I am fortunate enough to be able to stay at home with the boys until they start school, when I will go back to teaching. So money is a little tight. We rent, we have two cars, and we eat meat. So what I actually realised the other day is that I have been sitting around waiting for someone else to do something, while I continue to maintain and expect to continue the lifestyle that has contributed to getting us into this mess in the first place. Well no more! In this blog I am going to share my journey in becoming more environmentally sensitive to the world I live in.

Just don't ask me to become a vegetarian.