Abate, renovate & innovate; individual power over waste: Karen Cannard at TEDxCambridgeUniversity

From a simple challenge to reduce her household waste for a month, Karen talks about how she became a bit 'geeky about garbage'. She shares some powerful tools for thinking about our waste for helping to cut down, and the joy that taking a 'rubbish diet' can provide.

Karen Cannard describes herself as a philanthropic housewife, who balances the challenges of modern parenthood with support for community projects and freelance writing, with an emphasis on mainstream, yet sustainable lifestyle issues. She founded the Rubbish Diet movement, which saw her receiving many innovative, environmental and recycling awards.

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