In the spirit of Fair Trade Fortnight, The QLD Fair Trade Collective has teamed up with QUT’s new sustainable fashion hub, The Stitchery, to bring us a colourful evening of Ethical Fashion next Friday, May 20. Featuring canapés, drinks and some very special speakers – including Paula Rogers, co-founder or Fairer Traders Australia, artisan Cecilia…
It’s over, but we’re all still reeling. Rosemount Australian Fashion Week was held at the overseas passenger terminal on Sydney harbour, just across the water from the gorgeous Opera House. Despite weeks of rain, the weather brightened up and the street photographers took to the outdoors snapping up fashionistas left right and centre. Inside, catwalks…
Fair Trade Fortnight is upon us, and here in the Peppermint office we’re coming up with different ways to get involved. Thankfully, there are hundreds of ideas at Fair Trade Fortnight’s website to give us all a little nudge in the right direction. Swapping to Fair Trade can make huge and real difference to farmers,…
As RAFW winds to a close and you find yourself in Sydney this weekend with nothing to do, we recommend a visit to EcoXpo 2011: Sustainable Living Made Easy. Like Disneyland for the green-minded, EcoXpo is a gathering of like-minded hearts, minds and souls, all under one roof to display, discuss and share their sustainable…
Tis Easter, so ’tis the season for rabbits… Cat Rabbit in particular. Fans of the genius softie creator will think they’ve died and gone to heaven at Secret Animal Realms, her first solo exhibition, held at the No Vacancy Project Gallery in The Atrium at Melbourne’s Federation Square. Visitors will delight in a veritable wonderland…
Although the hunt for secret, hidden shopping treasures is usually the best part, a few hints every now and then are always welcome. Enter Designer Lookout’s Boutique Finder, a new (free!) app for your smart phone. It uses your location to suggest boutiques or designers (including a bio for each and where they are stocked)…
Easter’s already pretty sweet, but there’s a way to make it sweeter. Instead of the usual yearly gorge on whatever’s displayed at the supermarket (leaving us all, days later, passed out in an unsightly sugar coma beneath a small mountain of packaging), why don’t we do Easter the smart way: with Oxfam? We won’t ruin…
Last weekend saw the launch of Fest la Frog, a sustainable music and arts festival in Melbourne, that according to the organisers went off like ‘a frog in a sock’. The festival had quite the journey even before party time, relocating from French Island to CERES Nature park, but as happens with all good things,…
A picture is worth a thousand words, but in the case of a graphic, it could be worth much, much more. This is why Sonja Meyer has decided to donate her graphic design skills to refresh and redesign the image of a number of environmental non-profit organisations around Australia for the next three months.
Don’t know about you, but we just love a good chef. But a chef who cooks up organic skincare? Well that’s just doubly special. The Beauty Chef, a.k.a. bestselling author and natural beauty expert Carla Oates, has just launched her line of commercial products – Carla Oates Beauty. Following 10 years of research and made…
{Update: Sorry folks – Home Festival has been postponed til April 30th. Hang in there – it will be bigger and better!} Feel like spending the weekend at Home? We do too – and we think it’s something we’ll all enjoy. Making its official debut this Saturday, April 9th, at Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point, The Home…
If your wardrobe’s overstuffed, your spare room imprisoned by boxes, and your car is now the only thing providing much needed storage space, then we think it’s time to get onboard for this weekend’s national Garage Sale Trail.