Resources
We’re watching, reading, and listening to them all so you can watch, read, and listen to the best.
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Apps - Think Dirty
The beauty industry is teaming with countless products that promise to be the ‘life-changing miracle’ to better skin, hair, a better body, even a better life. But have you ever considered what ingredients go into creating these ‘miracle’ products that are supposed to make you ‘beautiful’ (spoiler alert: you already are)?
Apps - Share Waste
This handy little app connects those with compost bins, to those who have scraps. Not only is it a way to help out our Papatūānuku (Mother Earth if you’re not familiar with Māori), but it’s also a way to connect with others in your local area.
Watch - Kate Hall’s Ted Talk – How to be a conscious consumer
Kate’s talk focuses on us as consumers and how we can make an impact on the planet by shifting our mindset from seeing clothing as something we consume to something we invest in. Kate questions us on knowing not only where our clothes come from, but what we’ll do with them once we’ve finished, and no, giving to Opshops is not the answer.
Books - Make a living, living.
You know those montages of people reading one book in multiple positions and locations as they devour the contents of a book? That happened to us with Make a Living, Living...
Email Templates - DEAR [FAVOURITE FASHION BRAND], PLEASE TELL US, WHO MAKES YOUR CLOTHES?
Dear INSERT BRAND NAME, I am writing as an enthusiastic customer, who adores your clothes but has a few hesitations around the way you conduct business...
Watch - Our Planet
Our Planet is a phenomenal Netflix documentary exploring our unique planet, and also the urgency of acting now for its survival.
Watch - 2040
This is not your typical gloom and doom doco; it’s both magical and realistic, and it shows us just how quickly (and easily) we can turn our collective bad habits around. Let us tell you, if 2040 is anything to go off, our future will be a whole lot brighter (and a whole lot cooler) than the present.
Podcasts - Low Tox Life
Low Tox Life with Alexx Stuart is a place where better choices for both our own health and the health of our planet are encouraged and promoted.
Watch - A Plastic Ocean
A Plastic Ocean dives under the surface and shows us the rest of the plastic-filled iceberg we have created.
Watch - Jane
Jane, a documentary focusing on Dr. Jane Goodall’s work as a primatology scientist, is a documentary for our little hearts.
Apps - CoGo – Connecting Good
CoGo is an app that lets you shop by your ethics by providing you with businesses that value the same things.
Books - Wardrobe Crisis
The answer to "who makes your clothes?" used to be an easy one. Not anymore.
