One of the new brands that has caught my eye recently is Art and Roam. İlkin Çopuroğlu uses faulty fabrics from factories to create her designs. We had the chance to interview…
Tag: environment
“Covid-19”, “Coronavirus”, “Virus”, “Pandemic”… We have been hearing these words constantly since the beginning of 2020 and it seems likely that we’ll be hearing it again for at least another year. As…
“Skolstrejk För Klimatet,” started by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, has spread around the world in the past year. Children from all around the world have started school striking every friday to raise awareness…
As the climate crisis is in headlines, people are worried. On top of demanding action from governments, a lot of people are looking for ways to reduce their own impact on the…
With the increasing zero waste movement around the world, stainless steel straws are the most popular reusable straws currently on the market after plastic straws. Steel straws are dishwasher safe, makes cold…
“Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much”. – Michael Pollan Veganism is getting more and more popular around the world today, especially in younger generations. Being vegan means that you don’t eat…
Look around. What do you see? Trees, buildings, the sky… Wait a minute, garbage? It isn’t that surprising anymore, we got used to it. Cigarettes and plastic packages scattered around the side…
Wearing secondhand clothes or shopping vintage is seen as hard by many – but maybe they’re wrong. Since reusing clothes is much better than buying new ones, we decided to put ourselves…
The problems that weren’t important in the past are now called environmental problems and lately everywhere is filled with slogans like ”Reduce Reuse, Recycle.” Social media, streets, and schools are full of…
Lauren Singer. I first saw that name in a TEDx Talk, “WHY I LIVE A ZERO WASTE LIFE.” That was also the first time I heard the term ‘zero waste,’ a movement…
We are destroying the Earth – and have to act on it now. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report, the largest on global warming: a report that…
Almond, soy, rice, flax, cashew, coconut… as I’m standing in the non-dairy isle of Whole Foods, I’m almost overwhelmed at the amount of variation of non-dairy milk. I don’t see what I’m…
Dear Earthlets, I hope you are okay. You are like my children. Well, you are killing me. I mean, cutting the trees and stuff. You know those kill me, right? You…
CAPE TOWN – a city many described to me as one of the most beautiful in the world, but the three-year drought is starting to make life in the capital of South Africa…