Sometimes it can feel as if concerns surrounding climate change is an upper-class problem, primarily because access to alternatives that would be better for the environment are more expensive and very often inaccessible to the masses.
Maybe it is the winter, or maybe it’s the fact that I am feeling extremely nostalgic about a Guyanese-style Christmas with December around the corner, or a combination of both but of recent I find myself making Guyanese treats.
I was never a deliberately environmentally conscious person. Whatever attitudes I had towards recycling, and whatever patterns I factored into my behaviour as it relates to caring for the environment were more like habits I was taught to have.
Switching off digitally and from routine life is incredibly hard. Even with the best of intentions to do so before a holiday, the days leading up to it can seem quite manic and even if you have managed to do so from work and routine life, a digital disconnection is just plain difficult.
I think the Victoria Secret supermodel era is enjoying its final moments of desire, if there is actually any left; a change that is pretty much welcomed by most women.