Looking Back at our 2024 Blogging Year

The beginning of a new year is a natural time for reflection. A new year marks the passing of time, a fresh start. With all of my health challenges this last year, I’ve been in quite a reflective mood just in general. So as the new year starts, I thought I’d take a look back at our 2024 year of blogging.

Our 2024 Year of Blogging

This blogging reflection generally happens often, but the actually putting it down on paper seems to happen every two years. The last time I made a post like this it was about our 2022 blogging year. In a way these posts feel a bit self-indulgent because it’s a trip down memory lane for me. I hope you enjoy discovering (or re-discovering!) some of our top and favourite posts from the last year.

Top Blog Posts of 2024

The top posts from last year were not all written in 2024, but certainly ones that were read a lot last year.

These are our top five read posts of the year:

1. How Good are Cork Yoga Mats? A Scoria World Review
2. How to Make Sustainable Lanterns from Upcycled Materials
3. How to Reuse Bread Bag Clips–Over 10 Ideas to Try!
4. Words of Affirmation Gift that will Cost you Pennies!
5. Reconnecting with Nature and Self by Disconnecting from the World

Favourite Blog Posts of 2024

It can be difficult to choose favourites when you work hard on something, but there are always a few stand out posts from the year.

Some of the posts I’m most proud of writing this year are:

1. Sustainability Thoughts for Days When Life Gives you Lemons
2. Looking into the Life Cycle of Plastic
3. 10 Reasons to Keep Track of Every Purchase you Make
4. Why Food Waste is a Big Deal and How to Prevent it
5. Turn Dreaming into Practical Steps: 3 Financial Necessities to Change your Life

Some of the posts by Krista I loved:

1. Fun and Frugal Science Activities for Kids
2. Summer fun with kids: How to build a solar oven
3. Plastic Free July: 8 Types of Plastic to Know About
4. Simple and sustainable holidays: Four ideas for a meaningful season
5. Getting Up Close and Personal with Ocean Waste

Also, if you haven’t checked out our intro posts yet, these were a lot of fun to do! Read about Krista and Alison in our posts written by each other.

2024 Blogging Collaborations

We love collaborating with small businesses and other writers to create content for our blog and to support entrepreneurs. This year was a bit slower for partnerships because of my health challenges and the lack of time due to this. I’m hoping we can introduce more great businesses in the coming years.

One thing I’m so glad has continued is our Climate Change Collective. This group has really challenged me to dive deep into a number of interesting topics.

Check out our collaboration posts:

Introducing Goodwash Soap and their Plastic Free Soap Products

Get to Know our 5 Fantastic Climate Change Collective Bloggers

Guest Post: Going Green with Vegan Tattoos and Eco-Friendly Tattoos

Our International Audience

It’s humbling to know that we have visitors from 128 different countries visiting our blog! We are grateful for each and every person that reads and supports our blog.

The majority of our traffic came from these 10 countries:

1. United States
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. India
5. Australia
6. Philippines
7. Singapore
8. Germany
9. South Africa
10. Pakistan

Happy New Year!

Have you been spending time reflecting this new year? I hope that however this year is starting for you, you are finding moments of joy in every day. Wishing you the best for 2025!

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