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The Vegan Baker: Coffee Cake
By Miyuki McGuffie • yesterday • 0 comments
This week a little reminiscing inspires blogger-baker Miyuki McGuffie to recreate a delicious old favourite. More …
The Vegan Baker: Alfajores (shortbread)
By Miyuki McGuffie • August 18, 2010 • 0 comments
This week blogger-baker Miyuki McGuffie brings us a recipe for a South American cookie made of two sweet biscuits sandwiched together with dulce de leche (caramel sauce). Yumbo! More …
The Vegan Baker: Chocolate Cake
By Miyuki McGuffie • August 9, 2010 • 0 comments
This week blogger-baker Miyuki McGuffie brings us a recipe for the ubiquitous chocolate cake—made without butter and eggs. More …
The Vegan Baker: Soft Cinnamon Cookies
By Miyuki McGuffie • July 26, 2010 • 1 comments
This week blogger-baker Miyuki McGuffie tries her hand at an American classic and ends up with something else altogether! More …
The Vegan Baker: Chocolate Chip Cookies
By Miyuki McGuffie • July 6, 2010 • 1 comments
Re-introducing Good blogger Miyuki McGuffie, now turned US-based blogger-baker! This week, Miyuki tries out a classic baked good, modelled after a US franchise's version. More …
Personal relations for greenies, part two
By Miyuki McGuffie • December 3, 2009 • 0 comments
When it comes to your personal life, how far should you take your eco-sensibilities when other people are involved? Most of us know or are in the process of working out the limits and boundaries of our green lifestyles. But how often do we think about these in relation to the people around us? When is it appropriate to put up a fight? Is it okay to point out wasteful behaviour? At what point does encouragement become pushing and informing become preaching? More …
Living with the unconscious
By Miyuki McGuffie • November 19, 2009 • 0 comments
What do you do when you're sick of being nice? Miyuki McGuffie tries new ways to spread her beliefs when she's surrounded by people who don’t see the world through green-tinted glasses, and finds that vegan cupcakes work a treat. More …
Kicking nits naturally
By Miyuki McGuffie • November 12, 2009 • 2 comments
Parents know them only too well: headlice. They spread quickly through schools, but that doesn't mean adults don't get them either. Miyuki McGuffie found herself unfortunately afflicted—and determined to treat them naturally. Here's how she did it. More …
An even more inconvenient truth
By Miyuki McGuffie • October 22, 2009 • 4 comments
Did you know that what you eat may have as big an impact on the environment as how often you drive your car? Why isn’t a reduction in meat consumption being encouraged alongside energy efficiency promotions and pleas to use less petrol? More …
What to do when you're doing all you can
By Miyuki McGuffie • October 8, 2009 • 4 comments
I think I may have reached a dead-end in my environmental pursuits. Well, maybe not so much a dead-end but a brick wall, a kind of where-do-I-go-from-here predicament where I feel like I’m doing as much as I possibly can, but know that there is so much out there still to do. More …
Take it easy, take the bus
By Miyuki McGuffie • October 1, 2009 • 1 comments
I love public transport. A lot of people complain about it here in Wellington, where our buses almost always run late (occasionally early—even worse!), sometimes don’t appear, and often have less than pleasant drivers. Our trains have even made the news recently, with services being stalled during peak hours twice within a couple of weeks or so. But really it’s not that bad and I think people should cut public transport some slack. More …
Stop stuffing yourself!
By Miyuki McGuffie • September 17, 2009 • 1 comments
Do you consider yourself eco-conscious? I do. But despite my awareness of the environment and my passion for doing my bit, I still find it easy to slip into the same old habits, or rely on the safety nets we as a society have put in place for our wasteful ways of life. More …
Being vegan—why I'm not
By Miyuki McGuffie • September 3, 2009 • 17 comments
Miyuki McGuffie's four-week trial of a vegan diet is over—and she's decided it's not for her. Here she discusses the vegan philosophy, and questions why 'cruelty-free' should apply only to animals, and not the earth. Is favouring animals over the earth just swapping one form of exploitation for another? More …
Being vegan—the journey so far
By Miyuki McGuffie • August 20, 2009 • 7 comments
I didn’t think being vegan was going to be particularly hard, writes Miyuki McGuffie. In mid-June she decided to shun animal products for a four-week trial period. With that month well and truly over, she shares her impressions of the diet—and finds that rather than providing a solution, it has raised even more questions ... More …
Why should I have to justify?
By Miyuki McGuffie • August 6, 2009 • 2 comments
Why do we greenies have to carry the burden of proof? Just because we believe in something does that mean we have to have all the answers? Miyuki McGuffie ponders this and more after a co-worker questions her most recent ethical challenge. More …
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