Ever fantasise about having your own greenhouse? What about your own shopfront? These adorable creations from Little Mansions can make both your dreams come true! Fashioned from reclaimed timber and recycled glass windows sourced from old businesses, every greenhouse is unique and made to order. Or if you’re outside Little Mansions’ delivery footprint (which unfortunately for us…
Does your motivation hit rock bottom when it gets to mid-week? RMIT’s Commune festival is set to make your Wednesday wonderful with all kinds of talks, workshops and activities around the themes of sustainability, technology and textiles. There are free lectures by Australian and international sustainable fashion gurus including the UK’s Dr Kate Fletcher and…
The small group of designers and artisans behind the Hey Maker! Collective are united by one cause: to establish a creative hub in the Tweed Valley town of Murwillumbah. Dreaming of a place where like-minded creatives can come together and connect, they are currently fundraising to make their vision a reality! Hey Maker!’s space will eventually…
You may have seen Eternal Creation‘s baby-faced beauties in the pages of Peppermint‘s before, now we’re pleased to say that the label have launched a brand new fair trade range for big kids, too! Founder and designer Frances Carrington (whose inspiring story you can read about in Issue 12) has just launched a new collection…
Fashionably early, fashionably late – when it comes to punctuality, the future of sustainable fashion is one thing we don’t want to see get left behind! Fashionably Early: Designing Australian Fashion Futures is lending a hand by creating a non-commercial space for emerging and established designers to reflect on our future. Encouraging diverse solutions to some…
Looking for something new to excite and inspire the littlest loves in your life? Then you’re in for a treat with this handful of titles we’ve come across – all from a new crop of Australian talent no less! First up, following on from a successful short film of the same name, Hailey Bartholomew’s self-published…
If you have an fervour for fashion and an urge to better the industry, this month’s SOURCE Summit might just be the event you’ve been waiting for. Presented on July 25th by the Ethical Fashion Forum UK, this unique gathering will cover all aspects of how fashion can be a tool for change. Workshops will…
Normally, if you admitted to liking watching guys sitting on the toilet, we’d smile, nod, and run very quickly in the opposite direction. But today, we’re not just indulging what would usually be seen as a strange fetish – we’re cheering you on. Or more to the point, we’re cheering the guy sitting on the…
Winter is a great time for big coats, woolly jumpers, fancy scarves and cosy mittens. It is not a great time to be sleeping rough, especially across Australia’s chilly southern states. But thanks to Salvos, you can indulge in some quality vintage winter essentials while directly helping the country’s homeless just by shopping at their…
Four easy steps: wear it, drop it, recycle it, let it live on! Most of us get lost somewhere between steps one and two unfortunately and end up contributing our fair share to landfill – about 70% of which annually is made up of old clothes. Hot on the heels of recent debate surrounding Buy…
Fresh, local produce sure is a delight to behold, so wouldn’t it be handy if there was someone to help you, well, behold as much of it as you possibly can? Following on from their gorgeous Field Guide to Victorian Produce, the team at The Locavore Edition are currently on the hunt for quality producers…
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire… Too much? I may be exaggerating when I say that Australian winters are fffreezing! – but surely we’re all familiar with that age old problem of trying to get the laundry done when it’s cold and dewy outside. Speaking of airing out dirty laundry, those massive spikes in energy use…