Ingredients of Wellness

There are many things we can do to reduce waste, to consume in a sustainable way and to be conscious consumers.  In some cases the barriers are simply that we don’t know how.  The recent SCMP profile of HK Green Home eco warrior Claire Sancelot highlights that aiming for zero waste is not all that hard, if […]

Did you know October 4 was World Animal Day? There are some important reasons for highlighting this special day and they relate to the wellness of humans and animals. First we’ll start with some recent stories that highlight why we should be thinking about and doing more for animal wellbeing.  Then we move onto the […]

Human health and wellbeing, on a sustainable basis, should be the primary objective of urban policy and planning. An increasingly growing body of research from fields as diverse as psychology, ecology, urban planning and architecture, and health and wellness, are determining that a connection to nature is essential to human health (Brymer, Cuddihy & Sharma-Brymer […]

Summer is fast approaching for those of us in the northern hemisphere, a time for families to think about protection from the harmful rays of the sun.   ‘Harmful’ is how we have learnt to think about the sun.  Originally from Australia I have been a sun devotee most of my life.  Whilst spending endless hours […]

This is Part 2 of a 2 part series on 10 things you can do to help protect our marine environments and feel good about it.  Part 1 was out last week in case you missed it.  6.      Find replacements for single use plastics and disposables Use your own water bottle Take your own bag […]

If you’ve read a little about me you will know that I am interested in understanding how our relationship with nature, particularly marine environments, influences our wellness, and how this interrelationship may change our attitudes and promote positive behaviors.  In my involvement with our local green group, as a dive master and as a supporter […]

Let’s start this conversation about wellness and the marine environment with some examples of how the marine environment can impact our wellness.  Firstly let’s look again at what wellness is. As I’ve previously discussed, wellness can mean different things to different people in different contexts.  But regardless of the context, wellness is a conscious decision […]

For inspiration today we look to Blue Sphere Media and this beautiful video calling for the protection of the majestic Manta Rays.  Please sign the petition, and this one, to help gather support for CITES protection of Manta Ray’s.  

I’m very proud to say that I volunteer for our local community environmental non-profit in Discovery Bay, DB Green.  We have just finished planning the community environmental activities for 2013 and I thought I’d take this opportunity in my blog to highlight all the great events that are coming up. Community Meeting The first most important event […]

I consider myself very privileged to be living in a part of Hong Kong that allows me to hit the hiking trails within minutes of leaving my front door.  Over recent months we have been hitting these trails much more often; on the weekend with Kenny and during the week either on my own or […]

As its my intention to keep the topics and content for this blog on the ‘optimistic and fun’ side, I won’t go on a rant about one of my pet peeves, but I wanted to bring this topic up as one of the first discussion that we will file under Marine Matters.  Why marine matters?  […]

Despite the title of this post, which I admit was intended to grab your attention….did it!! I’m not sure for certain that Sipadan is in fact Marine Wellness in action.  But what we experience during our recent dive encounter in January was significantly better than our last visit in 2005, but unfortunately not as abundant as that witnessed on our first […]

While the idea of ‘Wellness’ is obviously quite distinct from the concept of mainstream health, it is interesting that as yet no fixed definition or theory exists for Wellness.  Yet this is not to be viewed as a bad thing.  The wide use of the term Wellness results in different meanings, for different groups, in […]

Miessence is the world’s first extensive range of internationally Certified Organic skin, hair, body, cosmetic, oral and nutritional products – certified to food standards.  As part of my wellness journey I was looking into using natural and sustainably produced products and was intrigued by the food standards certification of what was essentially a skin and personal care […]

This first post allocated in the area of Marine Matters is an intro into why I want to incorporate Marine issues in this blog on the Ingredients of Wellness. Well if you’ve read about me you’ll see that the oceans and the marine animals that reside in the big blue world are one of my loves […]