Category: <span>Events</span>

Business Sustainability Professionals Share Industry Best Practices at National Conference

Business Sustainability Professionals Share Industry Best Practices at National Conference

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,...

Sustainable Events: What It Took To Launch Australia’s ‘Mindfully Wed’ Ethical Wedding Expo

Sustainable Events: What It Took To Launch Australia’s ‘Mindfully Wed’ Ethical Wedding Expo

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...

Nordic Fashion Designers Compete in Eco Fashion Challenge at Faroe Islands

Nordic Fashion Designers Compete in Eco Fashion Challenge at Faroe Islands

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 Celebrates 10 Years of Climate Change Progress

Earth Hour Celebrates 10 Years of Climate Change Progress

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...

10 Things I Learned From the ‘Tech-Formation’ Run the World Women-in-Tech Conference

10 Things I Learned From the ‘Tech-Formation’ Run the World Women-in-Tech Conference

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...

20 Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day Without Costing the Earth

20 Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day Without Costing the Earth

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! –...