Happy Bites: The Bite Sized Hong Kong Brand Supercharging Energy Balls

Chewy mouthfuls of an intense burst of flavor that amps up your health? Yes, please! This is what Happy Bites, a one-woman show from Hong Kong, was serving up at The Conscious Festival Hong Kong. The raw, gluten-free and vegan superfood Ballz are carefully handmade with ingredients like cacao nibs, Medjool dates, walnuts, rose petals,…

ByGeorgina Chang18/04/20197 minRead time

BUSINESS CONSCIOUS SCOOP HONG KONG

The Conscious Scoop: Disneyland Hong Kong Hotels Going Plant-Based, A Vegan Royal Baby and A New Bar For #ClimateLeadership

This week's Conscious Scoop: Green Monday and Disneyland Hong Kong join forces, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle want to raise their baby to be vegan, and Elizabeth Warren sets the bar high for #ClimateLeadership. 1. Vegan food takes over Disneyland Hong Kong Hotels. Courtesy of Green Monday, Hong Kong Disneyland Hotels has launched a number of…

ByTammy Gan18/04/20194 minRead time

Conscious Festival CONSCIOUS SCOOP PLANET

Get to Know all the Artists Descending Upon The Conscious Festival This Weekend

As we countdown the final days to The Conscious Festival Hong Kong, take a look through the artist lineup we've curated for an idea of what the music and art accompaniment will be like while you talk, shop, eat, drink, learn and play your way through the weekend. We've so far delivered to you a…

ByOlivia Wycech11/04/201913 minRead time

BUSINESS CONSCIOUS SCOOP

The Conscious Scoop: Banana Leaf Packaging, a Disappearing Dairy Industry and H&M’s Conscious Collection?

This week in the Conscious Scoop, we're seeing supermarkets innovate with banana leaf packaging, reports of the dairy industry disappearing within 10 years, and H&M drops its 9th Conscious Exclusive line? 1. Thai and Vietnamese supermarkets innovate their packaging with banana leaves. While big chain supermarkets are trialing plastic-free fruits and veggies, some Asian supermarket chains…

ByTammy Gan11/04/20193 minRead time

Conscious Festival CONSCIOUS SCOOP WELLBEING

Five Simple Habits to Boost Your Sexual Wellness

Sex has been shown to provide a myriad of health and wellness benefits – from reducing stress to improving sleep and boosting immunity. That "after sex" glow people talk about, that's another benefit of the feel-good hormones that are released after sex that also boost our moods. What if we told you can heighten these…

BySara Tang09/04/20198 minRead time

Conscious Festival CONSCIOUS SCOOP PLANET

12 Unmissable Activities at The Conscious Festival

From a VR experience that will take you deep into the rainforest to a FitSphere class with Liv Lo to a mindful market with over 80 conscious brands, this edition of The Conscious Festival Hong Kong has unfolded as our biggest and most conscious yet (also cause we went vegan and almost zero-waste). While many…

ByOlivia Wycech08/04/20198 minRead time

Conscious Festival PLANET

Consciously Chic: Peruse all the Planet-Friendly Products Available at The Conscious Festival

We all love shopping, but what if we could shop to make a difference? And what if we told you that can do just that at The Conscious Festival? Well, you can because we assembled a party of all the best make-a-difference brands we could find into one place for your sustainable shopping pleasure – a…

ByOlivia Wycech06/04/201912 minRead time

BUSINESS CONSCIOUS SCOOP

The Conscious Scoop: Coal, Milk and Plastics are Cancelled, and Vegan Burger King is Here!

This week's Conscious Scoop is hotter than ever: a study finds fossil fuel is now officially pricier than solar or wind, milk sales drop in the US, plastic is cancelled in the EU and Tesco, and Burger King launches the vegan Whopper? 1. Coal is on the way out, a report finds, and the industry…

ByTammy Gan04/04/20193 minRead time

CONSCIOUS SCOOP EAT

Impossible Foods CEO: “We had to get to Asia as soon as possible.”

Impossible Foods is taking the meat-free world by storm so when their CEO was in Singapore, we chased him down and asked him all the questions that were on our mind (and chowed down). When Impossible Foods launched in Singapore last month, we tracked the company’s super inspiring founder and CEO Pat Brown for a…

ByStephanie Dickson03/04/201920 minRead time

WELLBEING

House of Ascend: Masters of Sound Therapy and Conquerers of Meditation

Experience a gong bath at House of Ascend in Singapore and you'll soon be ditching a traditional candlelit water bath for a gong bath with a side of meditation any time your neverending to-do list gets to be too much. Concept: you’re lying in an airy room strewn with mats, your eyes are closed and…

ByStephanie Dickson01/04/20199 minRead time