The Brave Discussion

LOHAS is an acronym for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), a market segment focused on health and fitness, the environment, personal development, sustainable living, and social justice. Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) describes an estimated $290 billion U.S. marketplace for goods and services focused on health, the environment, social justice, personal development and sustainable [...]

On June 23, 2000, the iron-ore carrier MV Treasure, en route from Brazil to China, foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins. Realizing that 41 percent of the world’s population of African penguins could perish, local conservation officials immediately [...]

She played lead guitar in an all-women rock band in her hometown of Madras, India. She was a cricket player in college. She sang karaoke at corporate gatherings. Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo’s CEO is responsible for the vision that has transformed the company into a corporate leader in social thinking and for this contributoray work to [...]

Happy World Storytelling Day and this year’s subject is trees! This wonderful story crossed my desk today thanks to Lisa Bloom, the story coach so this little story republished with credit to Lisa for bringing it to my attention.   In a great oak forest where the trees grew tall and majestic, there was a [...]

Ever wondered what the traditional disposable coffee cup is made from? It’s petroleum. Don’t drink Oil! Today we say YES to the World’s Greenest Coffee Cup by Repurpose® Compostables. Their newly launched  campaign encourages people to reuse and repurpose everyday items to raise awareness for the revolutionary, award winning, plant based, insulated compostable cup which requires no sleeve or [...]

Today we feature Liana Werner-Gray’s Earth Diet. Although I couldn’t find insights from nutritionists whilst researching this diet, the principles are pretty simple for us all to understand… it’s about eating healthy, eating naturally, doing your best to avoid artifically flavoured or enhanced foods and appreciating what comes out of the earth. Most of us [...]

When Jennifer Barton decided it was high time to go greener, she began to immerse herself in the abundance of environmental and ethical  information available. There were no greenie ‘L plates’ or entertaining ethical gurus to help her sift through the pages and pages of relevant yet dry information. She needed a ‘dummy’s guide to [...]

By guest blogger Judy Molland In the dark of night on November 15, a mob of 25 or 30 men carrying spears, clubs and axes burst into the house of Sister Valsa John in Pachuwara, a remote village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. They beat and hacked her to death. She had been [...]

By guest blogger Toni Salter Community Supported Agriculture Schemes (CSA’s) have been running successfully in USA, Europe and UK but they’ve been slow to take off here in Australia. These schemes are an extremely effective way of ensuring the survival of many small family organic farms that could otherwise get lost in the industrialisation of [...]

Today we have a fun story to share with you. Not very often do you get an Author like Lindy Mitchell who is not only passionate about her book and its important messages, but who ensures her book is carbon neutral by planting 625 trees in Malawi, through International Organisation Eco-Libris. What a wonderful way [...]