Sustainability journal

I am so inspired when I meet other woman in business and particularly other woman that are striving to make real environmental  change in their business pursuits, businesses that help to educate others on how to make changes, who support local business and lead with integrity and by example.   Recently I met the gorgeous Silvija Rumiha,  Mum of two and Bali expat for 7 years.   She has a degree in Health Science and has run other successful businesses in Bali centred around organic healthy foods for kids.  With a passion for health and wellbeing she is now on...

Earth Bottles director Ash Grunwald sat down to chat with big wave free surfing enviro legend Dave Rastovich and his beautiful pro-sufer, activist, writer and  lady love Lauren Hill about how to live a more plastic free life, the merits of plastic and their tips on how to live a more plastic free lifestyle with kids and in the water. Rasta: Well, you have to be honest about it, nobody has a plastic free life, no-one.. Not even a monk in the Himalayas, she would have something on her person that would be plastic.  Lauren: There are a couple of people...

  This week our founder Danni Carr talks to the amazing crew behind Bye Bye Plastic Bags Bali.  BBPB started as two brilliant sisters (aged just 10 and 12 at the time of conception) who set about to rid beautiful Bali of plastic bags and single use plastics.   After managing to get firstly permission from the Government to collect signatures from the airport (they got 100,000!!!)  and after many months of being ignored by the Governor of Bali they finally got him to take notice after a 24 hour hunger strike and BOOM they got him to sign a memorandum...

Firstly Nat, I just wanted to say a massive thank you to you and Clean Coast Collective for all that you do.  So far you guys have removed 10,000 kgs of rubbish from our coastline which is just amazing.  How long have you been on this journey and what got you started? Thank YOU for supporting us! We started Clean Coast Collective four years ago after we kept finding plastics washing ashore on remote stretches of coastline—we wondered where it was coming from and when we learnt about how much plastic is in the ocean, we felt we had to...