45 Tonne Elephants
Very soon we will be bringing you sustainable living and travel tips: implementable changes you can make to your daily habits to reduce your impact on the planet’s resources. The focus is one step at a time. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Trashy in Name Only
Bolga Baskets: Each basket uses 170 pure water plastic bags on average, and about 1.7 yards of recycled cloth, that would otherwise be burnt along with the plastic. Continue reading
My Silent Goaty Oaty Oaty Oaty Oaty
If you would rather enjoy your plastic on the outside, then take a twenty minute trip to Trashy Bags in Accra where plastic is recycled into brilliant, handmade bags and purses. Continue reading
A Plastic Bag, by Any Other Name…
A stroll along any road in virtually any city or village in Ghana invites ugly scenes: plastic rubbish virtually everywhere. It’s one of the major complaints tourists have about traveling in Ghana. Continue reading
Rubbish Rubbish Everywhere, Ghana’s on the Brink
Plastic bags are to the Ghana landscape what fallen leaves are to Autumn landscapes in cooler parts of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a seasonal phenomenon; it’s a 365 day a year phenomenon. Continue reading
To D or Not to D
(As an Australian woman) you know you’re in a cross-cultural relationship when…You shake a large flying bug from your hair and say to your partner, “Oh it’s just one of those bugs you used to eat as a child…” Continue reading
Young Hearts, Run Free
This is a culture where young people are expected to be seen and not heard. Sound familiar? Continue reading
World Cup Regression
In high school he told me that, when we were in primary school, I’d called him all sorts of racist names. I really thought he was joking. I couldn’t remember calling him names at all. But he insisted I had. Continue reading
Travel Blogging Tips
I started a series about travel blogging that readers of G-lish might find helpful and informative. I’ve been blogging using Blogger at This is Ghana since late 2008 and on Wordpress here at G-lish since late 2009. Continue reading
Godwin’s Plea from Ghana to the World
During my first weeks in kindergarten I walked out of school, which was a tree in our village, because the only thing we learnt for weeks was how to count from one to thirty. I told my teacher, “I want to go past one,” and left the tree and walked back home. My parents were horrified and I got in trouble. Continue reading
