Notes From a Sustainability Creator

Making short-form video and writing about sustainable food systems for a Gen X audience, across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Substack. Building the Cultiveur website alongside it, with small sustainable living tools and calculators, and writing about the process as I go.

Moved to Melbourne for a Master of Environment specialising in sustainable food systems. It combined social science and systems thinking, focusing on food production, the co-benefits of climate action, and how politics and corporate influence shape what happens on the ground. I finished with a thesis on greenwashing in Australian supermarkets and graduated in 2024 with First Class Honours.

Tested the waters of going back to university after two decades, with a Graduate Certificate during lockdown. It reminded me how much I like studying and confirmed I wanted to formalise what I'd picked up on my own. It also gave me the prerequisites for the Master's.

When travel ended overnight in 2020, I went from disillusioned travel blogger to writing about climate. Sustainability Cubed was part refuge, part practical resource, somewhere to put what I was reading and worrying about. I'd already gotten involved in Australian climate politics, joining the Greens to work on the 2019 federal election campaign. The site no longer exists, but it's where I stopped documenting places and started searching for solutions.

Left Paris in 2012 to become a full-time digital nomad and travel blogger, making a living from the road while exploring Europe in my iconic sky blue Fiat 500. Spent eight years driving from Western Europe through Central Europe and deep into the Balkans, with extended periods in Albania and Budapest, where I eventually bought an apartment. The nomadic lifestyle funded through blogging and side projects ended when I returned to Australia just before the pandemic hit.

Documenting life as an Australian migrant in Paris, back when personal blogs read like public diaries. It started as honest writing about what Parisian life was actually like, good and bad, and turned into travel content as I started exploring the rest of Europe. The blog built a real community around it. I'm still friends with people I met through it. Eventually rebranded to Rearview Mirror as the content moved toward European road trips.

An early go at sustainability writing, and Australia's first dedicated green living blog. Newly arrived in Montpellier, I put my interest in the environment into reviewing eco-friendly products and writing about sustainable living for an Australian audience. There wasn't much green content online then, so it found an audience quickly. It's where I learnt to write about sustainability, while working out how to live in the South of France.