Jul 25, 2024 | Be Different
Earth Overshoot Day lands on 1st August this year. This is the annual campaign that marks the date when the 8 billion members of our human family have exhausted nature’s budget for the entire year. We are consuming more natural resources than our home planet can...
Jul 16, 2023 | Be Different, Create
When style icon, Harry Styles wore this cardigan on stage, he created a viral sensation. So many people wanted to copy it, the designer released the pattern: The official Colour Block Patchwork Cardigan pattern to download for free. And here is Tom Daley, the Olympic...
Jul 16, 2023 | Be Different, Create
On Earth Day in April, we made a pledge not to buy new clothes for one year. This took us down a rabbit hole of discovery: how we could repair and re-invent the jeans, jackets, T-shirts and hoodies we already had. The ancient Japanese art of Boro gave us our answer....
Apr 24, 2023 | Be Different, Make an Impact
Captain Forest is an international movement that aims to build a zero plastic/waste and permaculture world. For three years, the founder, Lamiaa Biaz has been on a zero-plastic journey. She began by not throwing plastic away. She stored it in her apartment as it would...
Feb 22, 2023 | Be Different
Sometimes we are pigeon-holed. Our personalities are put into boxes. The thing is …….we are all SO different. Every one of us – 8 billion people on Planet Earth have their own unique gifts and talents. So, if you don’t seem to fit in with the...
Feb 5, 2023 | Be Different
How many times have you been asked: What do you want to be when you grow up? Are you being encouraged to get a job and ‘be successful’? And what does success even mean? Working all hours to pay a mortgage for a house bigger than we need Buying stuff just...
