Podcasts about boomerang bags

In this episode of Educator Yarns, hosts Jessica Staines from Koori Curriculum and Bec Buch from Bush Kindy Australia dive deep into practical examples of environmental advocacy that early childhood educators can implement with young children. From the fascinating world of flying foxes in Tamworth to innovative community partnerships, Jeff and Beck share real-world stories that demonstrate how children as young as three can become active environmental stewards in their communities. The conversation explores the critical importance of coexisting harmoniously with native wildlife, challenging common misconceptions about 'pest' animals, and revealing how simple actions like proper wildlife feeding can make significant impacts. Through engaging anecdotes about children writing to MPs, creating handmade signs to protect koalas, and participating in regeneration programmes, this episode showcases how environmental education goes beyond mere observation to foster genuine reciprocity with Country. Key Takeaways: Learn why feeding birds traditional seed feeders can actually harm them and discover native plant alternatives that provide sustainable food sources for local wildlife Understand how to transform children into active citizens by teaching them to use council reporting apps for environmental issues like rubbish and damaged infrastructure Discover the powerful impact of child-made signage in preventing littering and protecting wildlife, with real examples of success stories from early learning centres Explore the concept of reciprocity with Country - ensuring every bush kindy session includes giving back through rubbish collection or regeneration activities Gain insights into responding appropriately to wildlife after natural disasters, including when to intervene and how to connect with local wildlife carers Learn about innovative sustainability practices like the Boomerang Bags project, where children use sewing machines to create reusable shopping bags from recycled materials Understand the importance of teaching coexistence with native animals rather than viewing them as pests, including practical solutions like possum boxes and frog ponds Discover how to implement mindful procurement practices in early learning centres, considering environmental impact, ethics, and alternatives before purchasing Learn strategies for building children's knowledge about local flora and fauna, including nocturnal visitors and often-misunderstood creatures like bush turkeys and ibises Understand how small actions like choosing eco-friendly detergents can protect local platypus populations and other sensitive wildlife in waterways This episode brilliantly demonstrates that environmental advocacy isn't just about teaching children to care for nature - it's about empowering them to take meaningful action that creates real change in their communities. By embedding these practices into daily routines and viewing every interaction with the environment through the lens of reciprocity and respect, educators can nurture a generation of environmental custodians who understand their role in caring for Country. Whether you're just beginning your journey with bush kindy programmes or looking to deepen your existing practice, the practical strategies and inspiring stories shared by Jeff and Beck will transform how you approach environmental education in your setting.   Have a question for Educator Yarns? Call 02 5300 0306 and leave a voicemail with your early childhood query about embedding Aboriginal perspectives, and you might hear your question answered in a future episode.

Host Brooking Gatewood sits down with Isabel Mack, creator of Party Kit Network, and Toni Mason with Bull City Boomerang Bags to talk about the power of community-focused, non-policy reuse initiatives. Especially for those living in areas where it is difficult to enact policy, there's still plenty you can do to engage in local change-making. Listen in for some stories of the challenges and joys of turning good ideas into organized local waste-reducing endeavors, and leave inspired to turn your own good ideas into meaningful action. Resources: Party Kit NetworkBull City Boomerang BagsJoin the REAL sharing economy with a Library of ThingsEpisode 7: The Creative Power of Limits Grounds Krewe for Mardi GrasGet Involved: Join the Reuse Solutions NetworkSupport Upstream to make sure these stories continue to be heard and the reuse economy continues to grow — thank you!

Is your wardrobe stuffed with me-mades? Whatever role garment sewing plays in your life, after a while, the clothes can really start to pile up. So how can we continue to take pleasure in sewing, without adding to your problem of too many clothes? Image source: Megan Lee via UnSplash Idea No. 1: Challenging ourselves. Hear more about hand stitching clothing: Ep. #15: Hand Stitching Clothes with Louisa Owen-Sonstroem Ep. #73: The Seeds of Slow Sewing with Alexis Bailey Learn more about improving fit: Ep. #95: Refining Fit with Kate Roberts Options for online courses to learn and develop new skills: Project Patterns Domestika Craftsy Idea No. 2: Sewing things that aren't clothes. My favourite bag pattern designers: Noodlehead Tytka Studio Motif Studio Patterns Merchant & Mills Start your sew making journey at I Can Make Shoes. Get inspired to make a quilt more sustainably by listening to the following previous episodes: Ep. #19: Quilting and Considered Consuming with Shelly Sommer Ep. #26: Harvesting Materials with Eliu Hernandez Ep. #89: Threads of Sustainability with Bridget O'Flaherty Ep. #105: A Habit of Curiosity with Heidi Parkes Ep. #106: Reframing a Relationship with Clothes with Heidi Parkes Ep. #116: Improv Scrap Play with Sherri Lynn Wood Idea No. 3: Sewing clothes for other people Idea No. 4: Sewing for charity Make washable menstrual pads for: Pachamama Project Days for Girls Make reusable tote bags for Boomerang Bags. Make dress and other children's garments from pillowcases for Little Dresses for Africa. Idea No. 5: Mending! Hear from super creative mending expert, Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald: Ep. #39: Modern Mending with Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald Ep. #40: Experimend with Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald Get her book Modern Mending: Consider the spectrum of mending possibility: Ep. #68: Visible Vs Invisible Mending

The second part of a two-part mini series about sewing and saving. Episode 58 focuses on how we can keep sewing-related costs down to make it more accessible to those working with a tight budget. Specifically we look at saving money on machinery, fabric, haberdashery and sewing patterns. This episode is packed with tips and approaches to allow us to do more of the kinds of sewing we most enjoy, whilst spending less. Support the podcast over on Patreon! Check out the free Olio app for sharing food and non-food items, borrowing/lending equipment, and selling handmade items locally. Sign up to the Trash Nothing app in the UK to receive regular updates of offers and requests for free stuff in your area. The Boomerang Bags organisation are looking for sewers and resources to make fabric bags to distribute to a number of excellent causes. Listen to Episode 9: Overlockers & Coverstitch Machines with Julia Hincks to hear the many top tips Julia shares about using and caring for these machines. Listen to Episode 21: The Joy of Reclaimed Fabric with Sarah AKA Sew Love NZ to get inspired by charity shopping/op-shopping/thrifting for fabric as an alternative to regular fabric shops. Listen to Episode 4: My 5 Favourite Scrap Projects and Episode 14: Quick and Cheap Handmade Gift Projects for lots of fun things you might like to make with your scraps and leftovers from previous projects. Instagram hashtags such as #scrapbusting, #scrapbuster and #sewingleftovers provide a wealth of ideas that may get your creative juices flowing. Listen to Episode 42: Highest Possible Level of Use with Shelly Sommer which explores a really important concept that underpins everything related to the reuse of materials. Find all the posts from my long-running Free Pattern Friday blog post series. Every first Friday of the month I post about a free sewing pattern or tutorial I recently road-tested. The updated ‘My Favourite Free Children's Sewing Patterns' blog post contains links to almost every type of sewing pattern you'd need to make a wardrobe full of kid's clothes! With Christmas or a birthday looming, visit my ‘40 Free Patterns for Gifts for Kids' post for some project inspo. The excellent Peppermint Magazine releases a free sewing pattern with every edition. Their archive is a real treat.

The second part of a two-part mini series about sewing and saving. Episode 58 focuses on how we can keep sewing-related costs down to make it more accessible to those working with a tight budget. Specifically we look at saving money on machinery, fabric, haberdashery and sewing patterns. This episode is packed with tips and approaches to allow us to do more of the kinds of sewing we most enjoy, whilst spending less. Support the podcast over on Patreon! Check out the free Olio app for sharing food and non-food items, borrowing/lending equipment, and selling handmade items locally.  Sign up to the Trash Nothing app in the UK to receive regular updates of offers and requests for free stuff in your area. The Boomerang Bags organisation are looking for sewers and resources to make fabric bags to distribute to a number of excellent causes. Listen to Episode 9: Overlockers & Coverstitch Machines with Julia Hincks to hear the many top tips Julia shares about using and caring for these machines. Listen to Episode 21: The Joy of Reclaimed Fabric with Sarah AKA Sew Love NZ to get inspired by charity shopping/op-shopping/thrifting for fabric as an alternative to regular fabric shops. Listen to Episode 4: My 5 Favourite Scrap Projects and Episode 14: Quick and Cheap Handmade Gift Projects for lots of fun things you might like to make with your scraps and leftovers from previous projects. Instagram hashtags such as #scrapbusting, #scrapbuster and #sewingleftovers provide a wealth of ideas that may get your creative juices flowing. Listen to Episode 42: Highest Possible Level of Use with Shelly Sommer which explores a really important concept that underpins everything related to the reuse of materials. Find all the posts from my long-running Free Pattern Friday blog post series. Every first Friday of the month I post about a free sewing pattern or tutorial I recently road-tested. The updated ‘My Favourite Free Children's Sewing Patterns' blog post contains links to almost every type of sewing pattern you'd need to make a wardrobe full of kid's clothes! With Christmas or a birthday looming, visit my ‘40 Free Patterns for Gifts for Kids' post for some project inspo. The excellent Peppermint Magazine releases a free sewing pattern with every edition. Their archive is a real treat.

A sewing community in St. John's has come out in force to support an Australian initiative to reduce waste in landfills and oceans. We hear about how students at Prince of Wales Collegiate are making Boomerang bags.

What's the deal with plastic pollution and how can we further prevent our oceans from becoming plastic soup? We now know the impact of our dependence on plastic has impacts to both marine life and human health and will be unravelling some of the mysteries, questions and innovative solutions of addressing plastic in the ocean in a three part mini-series. In Part 1 of our plastic ocean miniseries, we will focus on just one aspect of plastic pollution: SUPs. Not Stand Up Paddleboards… we mean Single-Use Plastics! The act of using a product once and throwing it away is occurring so rapidly around the world that some even say we are experiencing a ‘Plastic Pandemic'. So, what are we going to do about it? Hang tight as we are about to hear the story of how the Town of Lunenberg shifted away from plastics and how YOU can too! In this episode, we are joined by two women – Jennifer and Ariel – who prove that changing our individual habits and status-quo in business DO make a difference. In this episode, we heard from: Jennifer Constable with Plastic Free Lunenberg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plasticfreelunenburg/ Boomerang Bags: https://boomerangbags.org/ Ariel Smith with Coastal Action Ocean Friendly Nova Scotia: https://www.coastalaction.org/ocean-friendly-nova-scotia.html Other Regional groups and initiatives tackling plastic: Atlantic Healthy Oceans Initiative (AHOI) – Zero- Plastic Waste Gros Morne Initiative https://www.ahoi.ca/ Ecology Action Center: https://ecologyaction.ca/plastic Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) - Zero Plastic Waste Initiative: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/environmental-funding/programs/zero-plastic-waste-initiative.html Viewing and reading resources Nova Scotia's single-use-plastic-bag ban (https://novascotia.ca/single-use-plastic-bag-ban/) Land and Sea- Ocean Devotion Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWZ6Gpe--0E ) China refuses Plastics from the West (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-ban.html ) National Law Center to National Strategy to Combat Marine Plastic Pollution (https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/tbucksuzuki/pages/149/attachments/original/1576508962/Blueprint_for_Federal_Action_-_National_Marine_Plastics_Strategy.pdf?1576508962) Federal Discussion Paper ( A proposed integrated management approach to plastic products: discussion paper - Canada.ca) We love to hear your feedback. Connect with the hosts: Sondra Eger (www.twitter.com/@soneger) Jackie Bauman (ruralresilience.ca/researchers/mun…/jackie-bauman/) If you have a story to share with us or questions about how we make the podcast, send us an email at stories@coastalroutes.org. Coastal Routes Radio is led by: Philip Loring www.twitter.com/@ConserveChange Hannah Harrison www.twitter.com/@fishpeopleplace Follow the Coastal Routes Project www.twitter.com/@Coastal_Routes Listen to Volume 1 of Coastal Routes Radio soundcloud.com/conservechange/sets/social-fishtancing

Boomerang Bags is a worldwide initiative diverting old fabric from landfills to make reusable shopping bags. In this episode, Fred talks to some of the volunteers involved in Boomerang Bags Kiama: Karen Fowler, Glenys Watson, Anne Greaves, and Robyn Nightingale. 

Please welcome our new National Council member Edd Moore. Edd is a teacher and Eco Coordinator at Damers First School, Dorchester, Dorset. Edd has built up the eco work at Damers over the last 8 years from a blank canvas. Under his leadership, achieved the Eco Schools Green Flag three times in 2016, 2018, 2020, won Eco Schools Primary Eco School of the Year, Surfers Against Sewage Plastic Free Schools Champion and Jane Goodall Roots and Shoots Best Group in 2019. With the help of volunteers Edd started a school garden from scratch including a bottle greenhouse so children can garden every afternoon planting vegetables which are then used by them to produce meals. The school gained RHS 5* status in 2017. For three years running the school won the Young Enterprise Fiver Challenge with their environmentally friendly products including: Garden Grenades – recycled school paper mixed with wild flower seeds; Spick n Span – a multipurpose cleaning product; Waxtastic No Plastic – an alternative to cling film raising a total of £7500 in the process which was used to fund a nature area with pond and a giant solar powered stopwatch for the playground. Edd has made Damers into one of the top Eco Schools in the country embedding the environment into the school’s curriculum. He started the Plastic Free Dorchester campaign with the Damers children who have made the school single use plastic free and help the town to achieve Surfers Against Sewage Plastic Free Community Status in July 2019. The children and Edd took their “All in” Deposit Return Campaign to Westminster and met Michael Gove and the children appeared on Newsround. They have also inspired the community and people further afield to collect items that normally cannot be recycled at the curb side such as crisp packets, biscuit wrappers toothpaste tubes to raise money for the school’s eco projects and outside area, saving 100s of kg of waste going into land fill. The community has collected so much of this recycling that the local WI now sort and pack it up on a regular basis. They also formed part of the team to make “Boomerang Bags” an idea Edd discovered in Australia where groups make material bags for people to borrow from shops and so reduce the use of plastic bags. Prince Charles launched this initiative in May 2019 in Dorchester, even providing material for some of the bags. Read Edd's article in Primary First https://issuu.com/synergyprint/docs/primary_first_28_digi/s/11069542 (here). http://www.damers.dorset.sch.uk/curriculum/eco-schools/eco-news/ (http://www.damers.dorset.sch.uk/curriculum/eco-schools/eco-news/) https://www.linkedin.com/in/edd-moore-a0369b86/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/plasticfreedorchester/

A conversation about the huge problem of plastic overflowing in landfill, floating in the oceans, strangling marine life and causing all sorts of trouble was the catalyst for a fantastic initiative that commenced in 2013 and has enthusiastically spread to over 1100 communities worldwide. Jordyn and Tania, co-founders of Boomerang Bags, said the answer to these problems stared them in the face - with one million plastic bags being used every minute, 10.46 million tonnes of fabric waste created each year, and with the willingness and generosity of people from all fabrics of society they decided to do something about the problem. They created a platform that supports the diversion of post-consumer material (waste- in other words) into reusable bags to replace plastic bags and most importantly, start conversations. In this episode we are very pleased to chat with Jordyn De Boer. Jordyn's reverence and curiosity, inspired by a life-long love of nature in all its forms, led her to study the natural environment, and now implements those experiences to support communities to create change, one reusable bag and conversation at a time. To obtain the show notes with more information and links from this episode, and others, visit www.storednaturally.com/GutsyMattersPodcast. Find us on FB https://www.facebook.com/storednaturally/ and on IG @storednaturally

Boomerang Bags Sewcial, deodorant, hidden gems in yeg, borrowing, honesty. ***** I found out afterwards that the plastic seal on the floss is PLA bioplastic. So if you have the facilities available to compost it, please do!

Welcome to Season 2! -- Boomerang Bags comprises a group of volunteers recycling waste fabric--clothes, sheets, curtains--into reusable cloth bags to help combat waste and the use of single-use plastic bags. On this episode, we chat with Lisa Petersson & Masha Ruig about how they got involved. We'd love to hear what you think. Give us a shout on [Instagram](https://instagram.com/csrofone) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/csrofone) or [write to us](mailto:csrofone@amaeya.fm).

We talk to two volunteers behind the Boomerang Bags initiative in Dubai.

Zero waste campaigner Erin Rhoads from Rogue Ginger once famously put 18 months worth of her rubbish into a single glass jar.But Erin hasn’t always had a low waste lifestyle. In fact she says it used to be “fast food, fast living” kind. She’s shared her journey to reducing her impact on the environment through her blog The Rogue Ginger - one habit, one blog post at a time.Today Erin’s a sought-after writer and speaker. She was a consultant on ABCs War on Waste, and shares skills and practical help to hundreds at workshops, talks and forums, and founded Zero Waste Victoria and Plastic Bag Free Victoria.One of the things I love most about Erin is her complete honesty and transparency with the journey that she’s undertaken, and the emphasis on meaningful change. She acknowledges herself that she doesn’t always get it right, but that small steps every day can make an incredible difference over time.This conversation is an empowering one for anybody who wants to take small steps to make the world a better place.Enjoy!+Show notes:You’ll want to follow Erin online at The Rogue Ginger - I particularly love her Instagram accountErin’s book Waste Not is available nowThe Clean Bin Project documentary - or follow it on Facebook or TwitterBag It The MoviePlastic Free July - Facebook and TwitterWar on WasteShareWaste.com - community shared food waste and compostResponsible Cafes - promoting reusable coffee cupsBoomerang BagsIf you like this episode, you’ll love this episode with Tim Silverwood on the Power of Conscious Choice++Keep Listening:Sign up to our All Being Well’s newsletter - Mindful Mail - to receive updates on the best wellness news and resources from the web.Have you been enjoying All Being Well? It would mean so much to me if you would Subscribe, rate and leave an honest review. It helps other people to discover the show.Better yet, share this episode with a friend or family to spread the word.+++Thanks for listening.

It's our last episode of 2018, and we wanted to find out how we could create less waste this Christmas(after all, we've been doing so well with our reusable shopping bags and coffee cups all year!) So we spoke with the expert - passionate waste-buster Ali Kirkpatrick, of Boomerang Bags, Waste-Ed and the Hopper Home Eco Shop. Beware, we go to some dark, depressing places, but there is hope!

This week Nina finishes her chat with Ailleen from Boomerang Bags and Lauren from Plastic Free Phillip Island and San Remo about what our community can do to reduce their impact on the environment.

In this episode of An Environment for Change I speak with Ginny, the force behind Boomerang Bags Castlemaine.  She and a group of dedicated volunteers have been following the Boomerang Bags model; sewing and offering upcycled cloth bags to the public of Castlemaine in the hopes of helping us all transition away from plastic bags and towards more sustainable options. 

Boomerang Bags Wellington is a plastic pollution solution for our plastic bag epidemic. And the mayor wants to get these in circulation to reduce the 9000 tonnes of plastic that is being dumped in the city's landfills every year. Moore Wilsons are also coming on board with rumours that they have ordered 3000 of them to have in circulation for their store. Find out more as in this interview Pip and Sarah of the Boomerang Bags.