Cardboard boxes are often seen as a sustainable way to package and deliver parcels. South Africa’s largest eCommerce sites, Takealot, Superbalist and Faithful to Nature, use cardboard as their primary means of delivery protection.  And customers seem to love it. According to consumer feedback, customers who shop online view cardboard as the most environmentally-friendly packaging option available.  Yet cardboard is, by most measures, worse for the environment than plastic equivalents. When considered over the useful life of packaging, cardboard holds a dirty little secret: it embodies substant ..read more

The world is safe and predictable. We wake up, eat breakfast, go to work, spend weekends with friends and family and occasionally go on holiday. It is in this safety and predictability that we anchor our lives.  But that’s changing. The climate crisis is challenging predictability and people aren’t sure how to handle that feeling of uncertainty.  How do we put faith in our 9-5 OR school OR society when we can no longer count on an expected future? And what do we do when we come to the life-shattering realisation that everything we hold dear might be gone in our lifetimes.  As climate protests ..read more

Carbon dioxide is a key greenhouse gas that drives global climate change. It continues to rise every month. In fact, according to National Geographic, it’s at record highs. And that’s a bad thing. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are key contributors to global warming, climate change, extreme weather events and changing weather patterns.  If the human race, as a collective, begin reducing their carbon dioxide emissions and overall carbon footprint, we have an opportunity to slow climate change and it’s very real, very dangerous consequences.  But to begin reducing our footprint, we n ..read more

We are living in an age defined by our climate crisis. A crisis which many classify as an existential threat to our society. But, individuals frequently feel powerless as to what impact they can have, often asking the question; "What difference can I make?". Below is our compilation of the top six ways to reduce your impact and help create a better future now.  ONE - Refuse Learn how to say no. Say no to a plastic straw Say no to a takeaway cup Say no to a plastic bag Single-use plastics are polluting our seas and killing our wildlife. We are poisoning ourselves and our planet through the con ..read more