LIVING sustainably

With islands sinking, glaciers melting, temperatures soaring and families forced to flee their homes because of increasingly wild weather, environmental issues have never been more urgent. Closer to home, the apocalyptic images of Australia’s bushfires have left many on this side of the Tasman looking on with a sense of hopelessness and helplessness – not least when our own skies blazed orange like a distress flare from nature itself. It all seems too big, too scary, and suddenly taking our own KeepCup to the café feels totally inadequate. But it’s not. These small gestures on the part of individuals do add up. While much of the solution to climate change lies at government level – both national and global – there is