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The holiday season is a perfect time to practice and advocate for conscious consumption and to gift with purpose. In the gift of giving, we can support small businesses and share the joy of ethical, empowering, natural, artisanal, and sustainable products created with heart and soul.  Imagine the look on your brother’s face as he discovers the smooth, sexy lines of a handplane carved from sustainably harvested timber when he unwraps his gift. Or think of the smile on your partner’s face as she runs her hands over the smooth, buttery soft surface of a handbag made from the cactus...

Chris Darwin aims to halt the global mass extinction of species. It might sound like a big and audacious dream, but when you consider...

From competitive skier to completely sustainable, we catch up with Thomas Richard from ASUVI to talk innovation, perspiration and sustainability. From the age of 18, Thomas Richard was either on the slopes or out on the waves. Competitively skiing for seven winters and heading out for a surf in the summer, Thomas always felt at home in the outdoors. It comes as no surprise then, that studying property economics and working in evaluation didn’t appeal to him. Thinking, “I really need to get out of here”, Thomas decided to leave the corporate world and begin the journey to creating ASUVI, the...

There’s something about the effortless beauty of Kappi’s range of zero-waste products that tugs at the heartstrings and unleashes your inner conservationist. That, combined with the knowledge that they are created consciously and with a focus on reducing everyday waste, turns even the most mundane household product into an exercise in elegant sustainability. The story for many ethical and sustainable brands often begins with a passionate founder or founders that take matters into their own hands to affect real change by creating products of value and integrity. This is absolutely the case for the founders of Australian household essentials brand...