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The Conscious Scoop: Brazil Rejects G7 Funding, 100% Recycled Denim Tommy Collection & Porsche’s New Electric Car

This week: The Amazon crisis rages on, while Brazil rejects funds to help put it out. DiCaprio-backed fund donates $5m. Tesco bans brands with excessive plastic packaging and more. Catch up on all you missed this week below.   1. Brazil rejects $22m from G7 nations to help put out the Amazon fires. If you've not…

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10 Reasons Why We’re Obsessing Over Christian G. Mongendre & His New Restaurant TREEHOUSE in Hong Kong

TREEHOUSE is Hong Kong's up-and-coming "accidentally" vegan and vegetarian hotspot that looks to be the future of dining: sustainable, ethical, modern and fast. The progressive chef-driven enterprise nods to the green movement with a taste of the future while reigniting the connection between who we are and where we come from. We got the story…

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Feeling Sad About The Amazon Burning? Here Is What To Do About It From Asia

So, the Amazon rainforest—often referred to as the lungs of the earth—is ablaze. Calmness has (finally) turned into calamity but the situation needs a lot more than thoughts and prayers. Meanwhile, the Internet is busy arguing about why. And discrediting the photos. And challenging facts. And where has the mainstream media been? Oh right, covering…

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The Conscious Scoop: The Burning Amazon, World’s Forest Animal Population Halved, “I am Afraid”, and more…

This week's sustainability news is big. The world's largest rainforest has been burning for almost twenty days and we *just* found out. WWF releases a scary report about the world's forest animal population. We hear from Greenlanders about their climate anxiety, and more. The week's top headlines all in one place...   1. Wildfires have been…

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Hong Kong’s Plant-Based Bastion Christian Mongendre Rises From The Ashes

For Christian Mongendre, staying under-the-radar wasn’t an option. From early beginnings at Mana! Fast Slow Food through to HOME Eat to Live, his beliefs have been deeply ingrained in pure, healthy, energetic, consciousness-raising food. This was further impassioned by the healing quality of food stemming from his mother’s struggle with cancer. He wasn’t about to…

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