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This season’s jewellery is an ode to the ocean

Two new collections of jewellery, one released recently by SMITH Jewellery and the other by PICHULIK, speak to summer days and happiness, both feature seashells and refer to memories of the sea. At a time when there is a strong...

October 24, 2018

Features

Looking for local, sustainable brands? Find them at The Ethical Market in Joburg

After two successful Cape Town-based pop ups (and many requests for a Johannesburg-based one), THEM or The Ethical Market will open on Thursday evening at the Bamboo centre in Johannesburg. This pop up shop focusses on local and ethical fashion,...

October 23, 2018

Spaces

Architect of change 3: Dirk Coetser touched the earth lightly

Using recycled containers, lightweight steel, borehole water, solar power architects at A4AC created this off-the-grid home in Northcliff. Architect Dirk Coetser tells us more about how the company’s approach of “touching the earth lightly” informed the design of this AfriSam-SAIA Awards...

October 18, 2018

Spaces

Architect of Change 1: Robert de Jager followed an organic process

It has been said that Goldilocks would find everything in the right place should she choose to visit House Burnett Prinsloo. By any standard that is fine praise for Robert Jager’s build, a finalist for the sustainable AfriSam-SAIA Awards which...

October 10, 2018

Fashion

What’s the Stitch: Ready to take the vegan challenge to your wardrobe?

‘What’s the Stitch?’ is a new monthly column by Emma Jones-Phillipson about dressing sustainably in our modern age. She’ll pair critical insights into the environmental and social impacts of the fashion industry with useful guides to conscious buying, wearing, and...

October 5, 2018

Opinion

Talking Rubbish: “5 ways I’m cleaning out my life this spring”

Spring has arrived, that time of the year I not only spring clean my house, but spring clean my lifestyle. While I try my best to lead a low waste, sustainable life, it’s impossible to have no impact on the...

October 2, 2018

Fashion

Floating into Summer in Sitting Pretty

You know how the promise of summer feels: days are a little longer, the temperature slowly gets warmer, once every few days we have a teasingly perfect day followed by a colder one…It’s not long now before we can spend...

October 1, 2018

Features

Our favourite looks from the Green Carpet Fashion Awards in Milan

At a star-studded fashion event in Milan on Sunday night, the latest sustainable trends and innovation in fashion were on show at their luxurious best. Gowns, dresses and suits made from handwoven palm straw, recycled polyester, organic silk, upcycled...

September 25, 2018

Features

A film celebrating secondhand clothes wins first prize at Bokeh Film Festival

The 2018 winner of the best film in the fashion category of Bokeh Fashion Film Awards is Picha Marangi. This two-minute long film starts with seconds of smoky, depressing landfill imagery, but quickly segues into a film that leaves you...

September 24, 2018

Features

Finding rubbish in paradise. How we cleaned up Dassen Island

When the boat pulls up at the island’s jetty we’re all talking about the water. It’s bright turquoise, crystal clear and the sand below is white. We’re not in the tropics. We’ve sped 10 km across the ocean from Yzerfontein...

September 21, 2018

Features

Q+A: Hanri Taljaard on the slow clothing consumption habits of South African women

With a passion for the natural environment and a fascination with the secret language we all speak through our clothes, Hanri Taljaard is currently knee-deep in a PhD study, focusing on “voluntary simplistic” clothing consumption practices in South Africa. Nadia...

September 20, 2018

Opinion

What is the effect of your savings on dirty energy companies?

You may have noticed the work of an organization called Fossil Free South Africa. It’s currently running a social media campaign, Spotlight, calling for SA’s biggest pension and investment funds to help savers divest from coal, gas and oil. To...

September 12, 2018

Beauty

If you love Lush, you’ll love its co-founder Rowena Bird

Rowena Bird is picking up trash when we meet. Her hair is soft pink, her lips painted a brighter pink and she’s wearing Parly Adidas sneakers made from recycled ocean plastic. On her recent visit to South Africa, she’s cleaning...

September 3, 2018

Fashion

Part 2: Extract from Dirty Fashion report: why viscose production needs to transform

When Dirty Fashion was released in June last year, most of us woke up to the horrific production processes of viscose. The Changing Markets Foundation which researched and compiled the report has since established a roadmap to better production processes...

August 28, 2018

Fashion

Part 1: Find out what is being done about viscose’s dangerous chemical pollution

We all love the feel of viscose. It’s soft and luxurious to the touch. So, it shouldn’t surprise you much that after it was first commercially produced in 1905 it was often called “artificial silk”. The silkiness is obvious. But...

August 28, 2018

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This season’s jewellery is an ode to the ocean

Looking for local, sustainable brands? Find them at The Ethical Market in Joburg

Architect of change 3: Dirk Coetser touched the earth lightly

Architect of Change 1: Robert de Jager followed an organic process

What’s the Stitch: Ready to take the vegan challenge to your wardrobe?

Talking Rubbish: “5 ways I’m cleaning out my life this spring”

Floating into Summer in Sitting Pretty

Our favourite looks from the Green Carpet Fashion Awards in Milan

A film celebrating secondhand clothes wins first prize at Bokeh Film Festival

Finding rubbish in paradise. How we cleaned up Dassen Island

Q+A: Hanri Taljaard on the slow clothing consumption habits of South African women

What is the effect of your savings on dirty energy companies?

If you love Lush, you’ll love its co-founder Rowena Bird

Part 2: Extract from Dirty Fashion report: why viscose production needs to transform

Part 1: Find out what is being done about viscose’s dangerous chemical pollution

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