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Make Every Day Earth Day

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Brands and resources we love who ♥ the Earth year-round ♻

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We know better than most that materials matter, and that more importantly, how those materials are sourced, what products are made with them, and what good the brands that make those products do in the world is what matters, not just on Earth Day, but every day. Here are some brands to buy from and resources to turn to when considering more conscious consumption in your everyday life and designing with the planet in mind.


Brands We ♥

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Eco-Friendly Stationery
Tiny Bones Press
Tiny Bones Press creates stationery that encourages connecting while being beautiful in feel, eco-friendly, and delicately designed. Their perfect bound notebook 'rest reset rest' notebook is made with Mohawk Renewal Hemp.
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Conscious & Safe Suncare
Solara
Mineral SPF for the skincare-obsessed, Solara products are plant + science powered, reef safe and they use fully recyclable + FSC-certified Mohawk Loop for their packaging.
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Personal & Planetary Care
Bathing Culture
Bathing Culture makes sustainable, biodegradable, self-care, and personal hygiene products. Bathing Culture offers radically natural, environmentally friendly products and they use Mohawk Renewal Straw for their secondary packaging.
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Zero-Waste Planner
Wisdom Supply Co.
By popular demand, Wisdom Supply Co. created a Zero-Waste Teacher Planner using rapidly Mohawk Renewal made from rapidly renewable straw and hemp, as well as recycled denim and cotton textiles for the covers.
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Slow Batch Textiles
ROEM Textiles
ROEM Textiles are hand-dyed from foraged & natural botanicals. Each item is made with locally sourced and sustainable materials in Okanagan Valley, BC, and hand-sewn with kindness with people and planet in mind.
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Sustainable Fashion
Rachel Craven Textiles
Rachel Craven Textiles is focused on creating sustainable, inclusive, and finely crafted clothing. Rachel crafts minimal silhouettes for all bodies at her studio in Glendale, CA with the goal of creating simple and elegant clothing (and all her hang tags are printed on FSC-certified Mohawk paper!)
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Organic Chocolate
Mast
Mast starts with ethically sourced cacao from Tanzania’s groundbreaking organization Kokoa Kamili, paying farmers far beyond even fair trade premiums. Their chocolate is certified organic, kosher, and made from bean to bar, in-house.
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Eco-Friendly Cosmetics
MOB Beauty
Clean, sustainable, vegan, refillable makeup for a better world. MOB offers pro-quality formulas that don't compromise and Earth-First packaging. Every component is designed to buy once and refill forever, endlessly customizable, modular, and reusable.
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Ethically Poured Candles
Keap
Keap candles are made from all-natural coconut-based wax and poured into high-end glass tumblers meant to be re-used. Keap donates a portion of its proceeds to Solar Aid, a charity that provides solar lamps to developing countries.
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Sustainably Sourced Coffee
Voilà
Voilà makes instant coffee that doesn't taste like instant coffee. Every Cup of Voilà is meticulously hand-crafted from the best specialty coffees in the world to near-perfect extractions to uphold the quality from farm to cup.

Designing Sustainably to Create Responsibly

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Designing Sustainably to Create Responsibly
Thoughtful, clever, and sustainable solutions for responsibly made, green print and packaging design.

Who to Follow

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FOLLOW
A Better Source
A Directory of Environmentally Conscious Resources for Planet-loving Designers & Businesses.
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FOLLOW
Dieline
Dieline is a bespoke creative platform that exists to serve the packaging community. Our mission is to build a global community of practitioners and to advocate the packaging industry towards more sustainable solutions through creativity and innovation.
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FOLLOW
Design for Earth
Creative community for climate change awareness. Design with the planet in mind. Visuals to educate + raise action. Queer Filipinx owned.

Listen and Learn

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Slow Your Home
The Slow Home Podcast
Listen in to learn what makes people change, how life is different once you adopt a slower way of life, and what their advice is to anyone looking to get out of the fast lane. A show focused on slowing down, simplifying, and focusing on the things that are truly important, this podcast is a breath of fresh air for anyone living in the fast lane.
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Sustainable Living
A Sustainable Mind
Weekly interviews with the people behind some of today’s most impactful start-ups, organizations, and campaigns. The discussions cover everything from microplastics and bamboo to eco-friendly event planning and sustainable intimacy products.
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Cultivate Conversation
Concious Chatter
Conscious Chatter is a podcast committed to discussing sustainable fashion, style, and the global garment supply chain. Hosted by Kestrel Jenkins, a longtime advocate for sustainability and explorer of the ethical fashion space, Conscious Chatter is about cultivating conversation and asking tough questions.
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Cultivate Joy
Brown Girl Green
Created by activist, host, and speaker Kristy Drutman, Brown Girl Green addresses the intersections of media, diversity, and environmentalism. Through interviews with leaders and advocates, the conversations focus on inclusion, climate crisis solutions, and more.
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Transparency
Low Tox Life
Hosted by Alex Stuart, the Low Tox Life Podcast is all about our bodies, minds, and souls. With episodes about our sleeping habits, the food we eat, psychological wellness, and even toilet paper changing the world, this podcast covers a variety of informative and intriguing topics.
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Social Good
Good + Social
The Good + Social Podcast is dedicated to exploring the stories behind innovators, entrepreneurs, and activists who are changing their industries for better. Learn about the latest and greatest in the social impact world, and take a look behind the scenes at the creative ways these interviewees are turning the traditional system on its head.
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Sustainable Fashion
Wardrobe Crisis
The Wardrobe Crisis is hosted by Clare Press, a Sydney-based fashion journalist, author, and presenter who was also Vogue’s first sustainability editor. Each week, Press interviews designers, climate scientists, activists, and academics about fashion, ethics, social justice, environmental sustainability, and how they all intersect.
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Ecological Regeneration
Green Dreamer
Hosted by Kaméa Chayne, a leader in the ethical and sustainable living space, Green Dreamer features interviews with other visionaries in the space. Perfect for creatives pursuing more environmentally-conscious work and lifestyles, this podcast will inspire you to start that passion project that's been on your mind.

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Replenishing the Planet Through Regenerative Design
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