The Conscious Scoop: Bleak UN Emissions Gap Report, Climate Change and Gender Justice & How Harvard and Yale are Complicit

This week, it's sobering news mixed with some exciting developments. We round up the UN Emissions Gap Report and a new analysis on how gender intersects with the climate crisis (spoiler alert: bad news). But also, Coldplay quit touring for the environment, and a Malaysian state protects 1 million hectares of land for conservation. Read…

ByTammy Gan28/11/20197 minRead time

CONSCIOUS SCOOP FASHION

OPINION: Say No To Black Friday: Closing The Loop On The Fashion Industry

Studies show that buying stuff doesn’t make us happy. So why does the whole world seem to go crazy when there’s a sale? And in the run-up to Christmas, shopping habits and overconsumption reach new levels of excess. With Black Friday just around the corner, we caught up with Christina Dean, Founder & CEO of…

BySally Shoult26/11/20194 minRead time

PLANET

Past, Present & Future: Wonderfruit Is A (Beautiful) Bastion Of Sustainability

Last year Wonderfruit welcomed upwards of 20,000 people over five days. With numbers like that, it essentially becomes a pop-up city. And a festival like no other. This year, the organisers are taking their city and making it even more sustainable to inspire global citizens for positive change. Here is a bit of what to…

ByOlivia Wycech22/11/201914 minRead time

BUSINESS CONSCIOUS SCOOP IMPACT PLANET

Circularity by 2030: Top Insights from the Responsible Business Forum 2019

This year's Responsible Business Forum 2019 zeroed in on a topic that's become much of a buzzword: circularity. But what does being circular mean? Why should we aim for circular? And how do we even get there, anyway? We round up the top insights from the Forum to answer all these questions, and more. A…

ByTammy Gan22/11/201920 minRead time

CONSCIOUS SCOOP

The Conscious Scoop: America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy, NYC and LA vs. Big Meat

This week, Dean Foods files for bankruptcy. New York and Los Angeles City Council Members call for a ban on meat products to protect the Amazon. And individual lifestyle changes matter, but not in a way that you might expect. Read on to find out more. 1. Dean Foods, America's largest milk producer, files for…

ByTammy Gan21/11/20196 minRead time

Conscious Festival

TALKS: What We Learnt About Fashion At The Conscious Festival

The final panel of this year’s Conscious Festival in Singapore explored the fashion industry. It gets a bad rap, and deservedly so, for being one of the dirtiest industries in the world that hides behind a mask of glitz and glamour. We were presented with a raft of alarming facts about fast fashion, but left…

ByOlivia Wycech20/11/201910 minRead time

BEAUTY

Coconut Matter: The Brand That Has Us Going Loco For Coconuts

If you were stranded on a desert island, what one thing could you not live without? Coconuts, duh. Coconuts have long been making a big splash in the beauty and health world, but Coconut Matter makes the biggest splash of all with its super sustainable and Ecocert approved blends, herbs, oils and minerals that altogether…

ByOlivia Wycech19/11/20197 minRead time

Conscious Festival CONSCIOUS SCOOP

TALKS: What We Learnt About The Planet at the Conscious Festival

Day two of the Conscious Festival powered by Holland & Barrett saw the youth take to the stage in our third session PLANET: Rising seas, rising youths. We heard from the youngest speaker to ever take the stage at a Conscious Festival, our very own Stephanie Dickson and Paula Miquelis, plus a raft of incredible…

BySally Shoult18/11/20199 minRead time

PLANET

DJ Blond:ish Says ‘Bye Bye Plastic’ In An Eponymous Mini Documentary

Blond:ish is a DJ who launched a campaign called 'Bye Bye Plastic' in an attempt to eradicate single-use plastic in the music industry. Then she took it one step further and made a mini-documentary about it. Sustainability has reached the top of the agenda for several industries around the world already. But the entertainment industry…

ByOlivia Wycech15/11/20193 minRead time

CONSCIOUS SCOOP

The Conscious Scoop: Australia’s Deadly Bushfires, State of Emergency in Venice and NZ’s Zero Carbon Bill

Breaking: Australia is facing an unprecedented bushfire crisis, while Venice just declared a state of emergency. Meanwhile, New Zealand just passed a historic zero-carbon bill. Read on for all the major news this week. 1. Catastrophic danger faced as Australia battles blazes in New South Wales and Queensland. The East Coast of Australia is burning.…

ByTammy Gan14/11/20196 minRead time