Interviews

Art Installation by Joan Danziger

The Magical World is Ours to See – Joan Danziger

Artist Joan Danziger sees it and hears it when she works late in her studio and listens to the sounds of the birds and scurrying critters outside the windows.

Data Explorers

Stories on Sustainability

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Waste

Why Greeting Cards Deserve a Better Second Life

Many greeting cards are designed for a very short life. Why materials, waste, and plantable alternatives deserve more attention.

Stories on Ethics

Wealth can shape legal outcomes through bail, defence resources, expert access, and mitigation. Here’s how money distorts justice in practice.
Equality

When Justice Depends on Money

Wealth can shape legal outcomes through bail, defence resources, expert access, and mitigation. Here’s how money distorts justice in practice.

Video Interviews

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Sam from Fleeting Fern
The Benefits of Forest Bathing
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Uriel Menalled
Building a Resilient Food System
Rohini Gupta
Rohini Gupta
Water System Vulnerabilities under a Changing Climate
Jessi
Jessi Beyer
Crisis Co-Responder Focused on Mental Health
Anne
Anne Kellner
The Probem of Plastic Waste
Marcela
Marcela da Terra
Soil-Based Paints
Franziska
Franziska Mesche
Tripulse: Sustainable Activewear

Facts & Figures

Dimly lit bedroom at night with a phone placed across the room, suggesting simple, low-waste habits that support better sleep.

Why Better Sleep Shouldn’t Mean Buying More

Better sleep often starts with a cooler, darker, less distracting bedroom, not a pile of wellness products. Here’s the lower-waste way to rest better.

Packed living room during a house move, with boxes, reused packing paper, household items, and bags showing the waste and clutter that often come with moving.

The Hidden Waste of Moving House

Moving house can create a surprising burst of waste. Here’s how to cut the clutter, damage, packaging, and replacement purchases.

Fundraising Platforms for Mission-Driven Projects in 2025

Fundraising Platforms for Mission-Driven Projects

A practical guide to fundraising platforms for nonprofits, social enterprises, and mission-driven campaigns, with tips on choosing the right model.

Contractor sealing flashing around a window after storm damage.

Climate Resilience Starts With Better Rebuilding

Rebuilding after storms and floods can lock in waste and repeat damage—or cut long-term risk. Here’s how to rebuild smarter, safer, and lower-impact.

How AI Is Changing Education for Students and Teachers

How AI Is Changing Education for Students and Teachers

AI is reshaping classrooms, homework, and teaching workflows. Here’s what is changing for students and teachers, and why fair process matters more than ever.

Car plugged into charging infrastructure under a blue sky

Why EV Charging Infrastructure Matters

EV charging only works when it’s reliable and easy. Here’s why uptime, access, standards, smart charging, and good site design matter.

Design

The Environmental Impact of Home Saunas

The Environmental Impact of Home Saunas

A closer look at the environmental impact of home saunas, from electricity and materials to durability, maintenance, and whether long-term use justifies the footprint.

Bare room mid-refresh after wallpaper removal, with plain stripped walls, a dust sheet on the floor, simple tools, and decorative wall panels stacked ready for installation.

How to Refresh a Room Without Creating More Waste

A lower-waste room refresh starts with restraint. Decorative wall panels can help in some cases, but sustainability depends on materials, durability, and avoiding needless rip-outs.

Travel

Small white-and-black moped parked on a city street beside larger cars, showing the size contrast between a scooter and standard urban vehicles.

When Is a Moped Actually a Lower-Impact Choice?

A petrol moped is not guilt-free, but for some short trips it can be a lower-impact choice than driving a larger car. Here is the honest trade-off.

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Sustainable Hiking: Leave a Lighter Trace

A guide to sustainable hiking, with practical advice on trails, wildlife, waste, gear, and lower-impact outdoor habits.

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A Minimalist Packing List to Make Travel More Sustainable

Sustainable travel starts with your packing list. By Cora Gold, Editor-in-Chief of Revivalist When traveling, you …

How to Plan Safer Low-Carbon Travel in Cities

How to Plan Safer Low-Carbon Travel in Cities

Knowing how to get around a city with a light carbon footprint while staying safe can make modern urban life far less stressful. 

Learn a Language Without Flying Everywhere: Notebook and pen beside a laptop on a wooden desk during an online Spanish lesson.

Learn a Language Without Flying Everywhere

Learning a language can make travel and global work more respectful and less wasteful—without defaulting to frequent flights. Here’s how.

Hidden Beaches of Ischia: Exploring the Island’s Secluded Paradises with Luxury Boat Rentals

The Hidden Beaches of Ischia: Cost of Being Found

“Hidden beaches” aren’t a bucket list. They’re fragile places with limits. Here’s why some shores should stay quiet—and how to visit without harm.

The Travel SIM Waste Problem, and What eSIMs Change in Japan

The Travel SIM Waste Problem, and What eSIMs Change in Japan

Staying connected abroad feels invisible, but travel SIMs create real waste. Here’s what eSIMs change in Japan, and what they don’t.

Garden

Public playground with rubber safety surfacing, partial shade sail, and open sightlines in a community park

What Actually Makes a Playground Safer?

Safer playgrounds depend on more than soft surfacing. A reader-first look at shade, drainage, maintenance, accessibility, and material trade-offs.

The Future of Lawn Care: Creating Sustainable Green Spaces

The Future of Lawn Care

The future of lawn care is smaller, smarter, and more ecological, with less water waste, fewer chemicals, quieter tools, and more resilient landscapes.

Lifestyle

Older woman sitting at a table at home, speaking on the phone while wearing a simple dark watch, with glasses, a notebook, and a mug nearby.

Safer Ageing Tech Without the Greenwash

GPS trackers for older adults can help in the right circumstances, but the real test is dignity, reliability, and whether the tech solves a real problem.

Opened gifts and discarded packaging on a bed, including a custom phone case beside a smartphone and other practical items

There’s No Such Thing as a Waste-Free Gift

Sustainable gifts are not about buying greener stuff. They are about durability, restraint, repair, and avoiding waste disguised as thoughtfulness.

Bartender preparing a margarita at a busy bar station with limes, paper straws, ice, napkins, and reusable bar tools visible around the glass.

Rethinking the Margarita: Can Sustainable Straws Change Cocktail Waste?

From citrus waste to single-use barware and straws, here’s how to make cocktails more sustainable without draining the pleasure from the glass.

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What Happens When You Don’t Properly Dispose of Toxic Items, And How to Do It Right

Properly handling hazardous household waste is a critical part of responsible home ownership and environmental stewardship.

Hands sealing a gap beside a window in a lived-in home, showing a practical low-waste maintenance fix.

A Safer, Smarter Sustainable Home

Sustainable home protection goes beyond locks and alarms to include moisture control, air quality, durable materials, and lower-waste prevention.

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How to Choose Sustainable Seafood: Beyond Labels and Certifications

Sustainable seafood refers to fish or shellfish caught using methods that minimize environmental damage and preserve the health of marine ecosystems.

From Farm to Sink: Building a Kitchen That Gives Back to the Earth

A Kitchen That Gives Back to the Earth

Real kitchen sustainability is less about showroom trends than about materials, energy, water, and the food we either use well or throw away.

Fashion

Leftover custom T-shirts, hoodies, and a tote bag piled in a cluttered storage room, showing how branded apparel can become waste when organisations over-order.

Can Custom Apparel Be Less Wasteful?

Custom apparel is often treated as disposable merch, but small runs, better fibres, and long-term use can change the waste equation.

Sustainability in the Beauty Industry: vegan professional makeup brushes

What Sustainable Beauty Really Means

Sustainable beauty is more than “clean” branding. Here’s what matters: packaging, ingredients, microplastics, refill systems, and greenwashing.