Eco-Friendly Blog

Homesteading – the word conjures images of Texan farmland and prairie living, but it’s a way of life booming in popularity – sprawling from the quiet of isolated rural towns, where self-sufficiency is vital, to the most built-up urban areas. From chicken coops and expansive veggie patches in the ...

Let me preface this article by saying I am not a parenting expert of any kind. I’m simply a parent who cares about the planet and the future of my children on it. I do feel a responsibility, though, to arm my own kids with information about what they’re up against, and how they might help to stop...

Around one third of the world’s food is discarded - this equates to 1.3 billion tonnes or so, every.single.year. And get this … If global food waste were a country, it would sit only behind China and the United States, as the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world! It takes an ast...

Raising just one child for one year produces 58.6 tonnes of carbon. To put that figure into perspective, the average car produces a “measly” 2.4 tonnes per year in comparison. It’s no shocker that an ever-growing population will intensify the ecological mess we are in. This worry is compounded by...

We love getting behind PFJ because its mission resonates so deeply with our own business values and our belief that many individuals making small, habitual changes can have a tremendous impact. Plastic Free July was established in 2011 in Western Australia. The movement has grown to become arguab...

Adversity breeds innovation and, with the world’s brightest minds squared firmly on climate action, we are beginning to witness the awesome potential for regreening our world and keeping the cap screwed tightly on 1.5 degrees warming.  Sustainable start-ups are moving beyond the goal of net zero,...