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The Waste Guide: Refuse, reuse and recycle

Reason to care: Waste has become the symptom and symbol of our linear capitalistic economic system that prioritises overproduction and overconsumption. Convenience has become a key to maintaining our fast-paced lives. But, the waste we create in pursuit of convenience...

January 9, 2024

The Home Guide: Create an Earth-friendly home

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The Home Guide: Create an Earth-friendly home

Reason to care: For many of us, our homes are spaces of comfort and familiarity. When it comes to sustainable living, our homes are an important focus, because they are one of the few spaces we can control. There are...

January 9, 2024

The Garden Guide: Watch how your garden grows

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The Garden Guide: Watch how your garden grows

Reason to care: Industrial agriculture is extractive and driven by profit maximisation instead of creating farming systems that care for the Earth. This way of farming and rearing livestock is responsible for vast planetary and social harms. Industrial agriculture often...

January 9, 2024

The Kitchen & Food Guide: Cook and clean with care

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The Kitchen & Food Guide: Cook and clean with care

Reason to care: The kitchen is the hearth of many homes. It’s a space where family and friends gather to share food, connect with each other, tell stories, continue traditions, and build a sense of culinary community. But, the kitchen...

January 9, 2024

The Bathroom Guide: Take stock of your beauty regime

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The Bathroom Guide: Take stock of your beauty regime

Reason to care: The beauty and wellness industry overwhelms us with more products than we know what to do with and with constant calls to buy more. It’s an industry that pushes hard at convincing us that we need the...

January 9, 2024

The Wardrobe Guide: How to lower your fashion impact

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The Wardrobe Guide: How to lower your fashion impact

Reason to care: Most fashion is produced in a fast fashion system which has a huge impact on planetary and social systems. The fast fashion industry is driven by overproduction and overconsumption. The true costs are shouldered by garment workers...

January 9, 2024

The Travel Guide: Holiday with peace of mind

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The Travel Guide: Holiday with peace of mind

Reason to care: Travelling is such an important source of joy in many of our lives. We learn about new cultures and experience new places. When we travel, we break away from our regular routines and sometimes forget about all...

January 8, 2024

7 Sustainable sunscreens for your summer beach bag

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7 Sustainable sunscreens for your summer beach bag

The heat of the summer is here, and we need to get our sun protection on. Sunscreen is a skincare necessity for protecting against sun-related damage. With the depletion of the ozone layer, our skin has become more vulnerable to...

December 22, 2023

6 Social impact CMTs restitching fashion’s values

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6 Social impact CMTs restitching fashion’s values

In the heart of South Africa’s fashion landscape, a silent transformation is unfolding – one that intertwines heritage, innovation, and conscience. Cut, Make, Trim manufacturing businesses, often abbreviated as CMTs, are emerging as the unsung champions of a renaissance in...

September 19, 2023

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A beginners guide to mending resources

By mending and repairing your clothing, you are making sure that you can wear it for longer, which means you are slowing down how much you consume and making sure that less goes to waste. There are two common types...

April 28, 2023

What is a paraben and why are so many products advertised as ‘paraben-free’?

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What is a paraben and why are so many products advertised as ‘paraben-free’?

You might have noticed many skin and haircare products are advertised as “paraben-free”, or come across online influencers warning parabens are terrible for your health. But what is a paraben? And could a minor ingredient in products that many of...

April 17, 2023

16 Ways to put slow fashion into practice

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16 Ways to put slow fashion into practice

Slow fashion is not just about countering the speed of an inherently unsustainable fast fashion system. It is also an acknowledgement of the multiplicity of fashion ways needed to build a better fashion system. Slow fashion is a mindset. Here...

February 7, 2023

6 Ways to Create a Wardrobe of Sustainable Fashion

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6 Ways to Create a Wardrobe of Sustainable Fashion

The environmental impact of fashion waste is overwhelming. Every second, the equivalent of a rubbish truck load of clothes is burnt or buried in landfill. And as the majority of garments are made from oil-based materials like polyester – 22.67 billion...

January 3, 2023

3 Upcycling initiatives reimagining plastic and textile waste

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3 Upcycling initiatives reimagining plastic and textile waste

Waste is a symptom of a consumerist, linear economic system that thrives on extracting natural resources to create more stuff than is necessary. As a remedy, the circular economy is widely viewed as a pathway towards a more sustainable future....

October 13, 2022

9 South African getaway spots with an eco-friendly ethos

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9 South African getaway spots with an eco-friendly ethos

As 2022 hurtles towards an end and the weather warms up, we’re dreaming of escaping the hustle and bustle of daily city life. And what better way than to switch off and recharge with time away in nature at a...

October 4, 2022

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