When you broaden your perspective you will start to challenge everything, even your own limits and believes. As you explore the stories below, feel your awareness expand and the connection to your truth deepening. These are stories here to inspire you to act and feel part of a greater purpose.
On September 20 and September 27, we can expect the next wave of global climate strikes to hit the streets of hundreds of major cities all over the world. Our youth have led the climate strikes and now they are asking us to join them. Find out why and how you should get your workplace involved!
Read MoreEvery week we hear about new places that are making the pledge to ban single use plastics, lets make sure Queensland is next! Send a letter from your school today.
Read MoreHow do we make a School Fete less wasteful? Junction Park State School in Brisbane was open to receive some ideas of how to reduce their waste, and as a result reduced their waste by more than half.
Read MoreIn an attempt to inspire more disruptive innovation and sustainable leadership in the Brisbane café scene, we launched a Sustainability Challenge for the month of March. During this time, the cafés had four weeks to achieve the goals they set for themselves at the start of the challenge.
Read MoreNever before have people caused such furore about the wasteful reality of music festivals, sport events and other cultural happenings around the world. It is not the first time we’ve seen parks and arenas transformed into wastelands, but it is the first time images of the aftermath has sparked such outrage amongst people.
Read MoreJade is the founder of Olive Eco Hair, a small home based organic hair salon in Brisbane. A salon that recovers 95% of its salon waste, and specialises in offering women a sacred and holistic beauty experience that is a little more friendly towards the Earth.
Read MoreWhen I think about my childhood, Christmas was never about the gifts. It was about putting up the first Christmas lights in November, the scent of mulled wine and ginger bread baking in the kitchen. It was about family and friends coming together, being together. Thats why I haven’t bought a Christmas present for years.
Read MoreIt is evident that our society has lost its way. We have become self centred, profit driven and extremely short sighted on what our purpose here on earth really is. Our children have picked up on our lack of action and they are revolted by the behaviour of our Governments, leaders and adults in general. These pictures shows that our children are concerned and that they want change.
Read MoreLocated off one of the busiest roads in Brisbane is Kerrys Wildlife Rescue and Care Centre, a typical Queenslander home on the outside, on the inside however... it's anything but. This is the home of Kerry and Ross, two retirees who for many years have been sharing their home with orphaned baby kangaroos and possums.
Read MoreIt now takes more than 1.7 earths to sustain our current way of life... 1.7 planets! I don't know about you, but my family and I have way more than what we need to be comfortable, and since we had already committed to a plastic free lifestyle two years ago, this July we decided to minimise our possessions and live a more minimalistic lifestyle…
Read MoreJust the other day, a video from 2013 was released by International Animal Rescue, showing an orangutan desperately trying to stop a bulldozer from destroying his forest home. A courageous act on behalf of the hundred thousand orangutans, sumatran tigers, asian elephants, sumatran rhinos and sun bears wiped out before him, all for the sake of feeding our planets ever growing hunger for Palm Oil, the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet.
Read MoreThere are currently one billion people starving today, yet here we are, wasting over one third of all the food worldwide due to strict supermarket standards and poor consumer behaviour. The food we waste could end world hunger three times over, yet it continues day after day. If that wasn't enough we also continue to excessively package our food, even through we see our world drowing in plastic before our eyes.
Read MoreMoorea is home to a small group of friends who call themselves Moorea Coral Gardeners, an organization of kids who wants to rebuild the coral reefs in Polynesia. The coral reefs are the lungs of the ocean. They produce two thirds of the oxygen we breathe, they are the forests of the ocean and constitute the foundation and the balance of aquatic life. But there is a huge problem..
Read MoreWhen studying the world's greatest organisations and leaders I have discover that there are certain patterns, strategies and attitudes that seem to lead to greatness. Some of which I have summarised below. As a passionate entrepreneur and environmentalist I know that an organisation will never be able to thrive in the future, if the environment in which it operates cannot thrive because of it…
Read MoreEven though I had already converted to natural cleaning products, sustainable toilet paper, natural deodorants, toothpaste and bamboo toothbrushes many years ago, I had a big wakeup call when I went through my bathroom items from my new level of awareness. So many of the products had not been used for years and was just sitting in my bathroom cupboard taking up space..
Read More...I used to wake up to the noise of the rubbish truck, hoping my husband remembered to put it out before he left. Then something changed and today, for the 64th week in a row, there will be no rubbish to collect from our household.
Read MoreEarlier this month, a car was launched into space with a message engraved on the circuit board stating; “Made on Earth by Humans”. If it is ever to be found by other life forms in space, they will know that we did it together. A beautiful vision conceptualised by a true visionary. A vision of a future we all hope for...
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