Brisbane, Australia: An Australian initiative that launched six years ago challenging people to ditch meat and embrace a plant-based diet is expected to attract a record number of participants this year. The No Meat May campaign encourages people to give up meat or go vegan, for the entire month of May. To give up meat for 31 days might seem...
With a whole bunch of festivals coming up like Splendour in the Grass, Byron Bay Blues Festival, Groovin The Moo and Coachella (of which I’ll be attending) it made sense to put together an eco-friendly festival guide to help you green your festival routine. Travelling away from home for festivals and events can disrupt our sustainable lifestyle...
Brisbane, Australia: Australian industry professionals from a wide range of sectors and disciplines converged in Brisbane for the 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference, a two-day event filled with informative talks by thought leaders and experts covering the latest industry trends, policies and best sustainable practices. The sustainability event kicked-off with an opening address from Tony Roberts,...
I love your look! Who’s the farmer?” Toronto, Canada: Imagine this: you’re out on the town and looking fabulous. A woman approaches you, smiles and says “I love your look! Who’s the farmer?” Do you know the answer? Not likely. In the world of fashion, even ethical fashion, we love to focus on designers, on...
Every 31st of December, we bring in a new year with wine and joyous cries, music festivals and skinny dips, friends and family, and a collective sigh of relief and reflection. I’ve spent my last two New Year’s celebrations working at a music festival, Northern Bass, liaising with artists back stage to make sure they are...
The words ‘ethical’ and ‘wedding’ used to seem like a complete oxymoron. How the heck can a huge party of hundreds of people be ethical or sustainable?! Only until I planned my own eco-style wedding did I understand this is not true. That’s what Less Stuff-More Meaning’s Mindfully Wed event was all about: showing couples that...
Pure Pod’s Fashionably Numb has been in planning for over a year… and it’s finally here! The Fashionably Numb event will take place in Canberra on the 11th of November. The event aims to raise awareness of the wasteful nature of the fast fashion industry and highlight the importance of the relationship between the consumer, their...
The Faroe Islands are a self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark. Home to just 50,000 people, it’s fast earning a reputation as a must-see travel destination for its untouched natural environment and breath-taking archipelago that brings together fresh air, blue ocean and magnificent mountain cliffs. Last month, the Faroe Islands hosted the Blue Fashion Challenge which brought the...
Earth Hour launched in Sydney in 2007, with 2.2 million people switching off their lights in participation. Just one year later, it reached 35 countries and an estimated 50-100 million people participated in the ‘lights out’ event. Earth Hour had unexpectedly become a global phenomenon. The symbolic hour has grown into the world’s largest grassroots movement...
On March 11 the League of Extraordinary Women hosted Australia’s largest all-day women’s tech conference called Tech-Formation: Run the World; an entrepreneurial event aimed at women in the technology space. As the editor-in-chief of this fast-growing sustainability site and the founder of a digital content marketing agency, I very much consider myself a woman in tech. So when my...
When Jennifer Lopez sang ‘Love Don’t Cost a Thing’ we nodded in agreement. Love really shouldn’t cost you a thing. In a world built on consumerism and instant gratification, we want to highlight that true love really does go hand-in-hand with sustainability. All you need to do is get your creative juices flowing and voila! –...