Rudha Glas Blog
A journey to living a greener life
We are an eco-friendly B&B operating on the following principles:
- offering food which is organic, fair trade and cruelty-free
- striving to produce our energy from renewable sources
- encouraging connection with nature and with the self.
This blog shows some of the things we do, or have done, to live a more eco-friendly life.
Scones with cashew cream
15 May 2021 As we head into summer, here’s a favourite (and very simple!) recipe I use to make a quick treat for afternoon tea. The secret is to make sure you aerate the flour well so that the scones rise, and whip up
Our guest rooms
30 April 2021 It’s been almost two years to the day since we packed up and left Germany to start our new life on the Hebridean island of Great Bernera. A large part of the past 24 months has been spent in renovating the
Seaspiracy
15 April 2021 Since the documentary Seaspiracy came out last month, it’s become one of the most-watched films on Netflix, and for good reason. The director, Ali Tabrizi, set out to make a film about how incredible our oceans are and ended up uncovering
Farhana Yamin
31 March 2021 By Helen Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Farhana Yamin, the international environmental lawyer credited with getting the term “Net-zero by 2050” into the Paris Climate Agreement. I first encountered Farhana in the summer of 2020 when I took part
Starting a food movement
15 March 2021 Photo by Filip Urban on Unsplash by Helen I recently became involved with a group of extremely dedicated and motivated people, based primarily in the Scottish Highlands, who have made the bold decision to address the question: “What do we want
What if…?
28 February 2021 by Helen What if we lived in a time when human imagination flourishes and anything feels possible? This is the question asked and answered in the book From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the
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