Southstainable Community
How to Have a Sustainable Summer in South London: Our Favourite 5 tips
Sunshine's finally here, and South London is buzzing! But while we're all about enjoying those long summer days, let's not forget about keeping our corner of the city vibrant and sustainable. Here are our five favourite tips for a summer that's light for the...
How to Make Mornings Something You Look Forward to: Our 5 Favourite Practices.
Many of us Londoners are no strangers to late nights and busy mornings. Anxious commuters running to beat rush hour transit queues and packed trains. Nervous parents scrambling to get their kids to school on time and then go to work. Mornings have become synonymous...
How to shop in your local market…like a local!
Imagine walking along a supermarket aisle with tons of products perfectly packed, all in line, more or less the same. The store is silent aside from the occasion till beeps. Your fellow shoppers are plugged with earpods, and there is minimal interaction. You can only...
4 Easy Action to be more sustainable in 2024
Happy 2024! We hope you spent it with the ones you love, doing things you love! The beginning of the new year is often a time for setting some intentions, goals or even just thinking about old and new ways of living life. And if it's true that new year resolutions...
Low-cost, sustainable ways to celebrate the Winter Holidays in South London
I'll be honest with you: at home we were counting the days to to put up our Christmas decorations and playing those cheesy christmas pop songs! There is really something magical about Christmas and even if we don't celebrate the religious aspect of it, the winter...
Sustainable skills: the arts of providing for ourselves that are not taught in school.
Last year when I was a full time teacher I once did a little workshop about how to bake. I thought that only few students (16-18) would be interested, given that we live in a society of take aways, ready meals, deliveries. To my surprise, 150 students signed up...150!...
Small Changes, Big Impact: A Guide to Simple Sustainability in Our South London Community
Since we have moved to this country we have always lived south of the river. And we love it! The south has a bit of a reputation to be somewhat less representative of London, maybe because there are less tube stations, less big shopping brands, less corporations and...
How to be sustainable without going mad or broke
When I started my sustainable journey, the first action I focussed on was trying to shop zero waste. I was fully committed to buying as little packaging as possible. I discovered a couple of bulk stores, zero waste shops and local markets around me and only shopped at...
How to celebrate black sustainability in London with Black History Month 2023
This month is Black History Month, and if you live in a city like London, which has a strong black community, you’ll likely enjoy the array of events occurring that celebrate the important contribution of Black people in building, shaping and culturally developing...
Sustainable roots (what sustainable really means)
The word sustainable is often associated with a way of living that require a lot of no. No to waste, no to certain product, no to certain food, no to certain habits. This is all very good but it's not necessarily what sustainable mean. At least for us. The word...
