Sustainability Blog
By Guest Blogger: Silvia Ceria of DforDesignSustainability is a wide term, fascinating on one side and on the other very confusing. What exactly does it mean to be sustainable? Time to bring some clarity! Looking in the dictionary, sustainable refers to “something that can endure”. But how does this translate in business or design practice?What follows is a journey through sustainability in the interior design industry with exciting examples, terms defined, and innovations celebrated.Natural MaterialsIntuitively, one would think that natural materials are always sustainable. But that’s not necessarily the case. Next to the actual material, it’s important to consider production, […]
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This is actually a guest blog written by Erika Rodriguez of Nadi Marketing! Disclosure: Some of the links in this post may be “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, at no extra cost to you I will receive an affiliate commission. _____________________ There is more and more attention being put on a corporation’s “carbon foot print” and clear ways to reduce green house gas emissions in the workplace. But what about your digital home footprint? What changes can you make in our home office? This blog focuses on greening your website as […]
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In addition to our Sustainable Marketplace where we list over 50 of our favorite global sustainable brands, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Durango Sustainable Business Guide. This local guide is a work in progress—meaning it is ever growing. We’ll add as we go and as our local community of Durango’s economy shifts and more and more sustainable businesses startup. So, bookmark both the global Sustainable Marketplace and the Durango Sustainable Business Guide and shop your values any day, every time. The 8 sustainable businesses described here provide a sample of the 30+ sustainable businesses in Durango. These […]
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Sometimes the best innovations come direct—from nature that is. Our lifestyle team at Live Creative has been trying out soapberries (AKA soap nuts) as a climate positive laundry detergent. One of us loves them and the other is still on the fence. Sapindus Mukorossi is the name of the tree soapberries grow on. While it takes 9 years for the tree to begin growing fruit, once it does it an be harvested for an amazing 90 year lifecycle. Plus, the nuts can be harvested 6 months out of 12, yielding a lot of nuts. Grown in Nepal in the Himalayan […]
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1. Doing Good Isn’t Enough Some of us on the Live Creative Studio’s marketing and branding team have led or contributed creative design to “cause marketing” campaigns in our careers. This has been a common approach for decades for business, particularly for large corporations. Essentially it’s a one-off “do good” campaign with lots of PR and a picture of a large check (with an even bigger number on it!) made out to a non-profit organization doing well-meaning work in the community. While donations of this kind are important, they do not fundamentally change the culture, procurement, product development, packaging, or […]
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Electric car affordability for the masses just may hinge on recycling of e-waste, particularly mining old cell phones for nickel, cobalt, and lithium to make enough batteries to power the mountain of electric cars coming soon. Virgin mining and extraction from nature is more and more costly, both economically and environmentally speaking. Market forces often drive the biggest change and lead to disruptive innovation. In this case, flipping the paradigm from the commodity market dictating the price of these metals needed for the electric cars of the future to a radical shift in material savings that short circuits the mining […]
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The holiday season is here! Gift-giving is a thoughtful way to pass on a passion for sustainability through a meaningful product that has a story. Our green, eco-friendly and ethical holiday gift guide includes some of the best sustainable brands making beautiful products that benefit people and planet. Scroll down to find the best eco-friendly gift ideas for minimalists, self-care lovers, travelers, vegans, fashionistas, kids, and more. HAPPY GIFTING 1. PROJECTKIN | LUGGAGE ProjectKin creates sustainable and stylish luggage & travel accessories for the mindful traveller. Their suitcases and other travel products are designed with simplicity and functionality in mind—a […]
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As a sustainable or ethical brand, purpose and intention sit at the heart of your brand, driving everything you do. Purpose is not an add-on or something that comes and goes according to whim or budget. It’s what makes your company authentic, and you are rewarded for this by brand loyalists, especially millennials— because they can smell BS from afar. Your holiday marketing and branding should focus around what people want: People want to belong and connect to something real and meaningful, and the brands they choose to include in their daily lives affirm their sense of self and the […]
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Whether you prefer sweats and a t-shirt, jeans and a jacket, or cutting-edge styles from Milan, we all wear clothes and participate in the world of fashion. There are exciting new sustainable innovations to share with you that are weaving a new fashion paradigm. And rightly so, as the fashion industry is highly polluting: production makes up 10% of humanity’s carbon emissions, dries up water sources, pollutes rivers and streams, and destroys our mighty forests. What’s more, 85% of all textiles go to the dump each year. And washing some clothes sends thousands of bits of plastic into our oceans. […]
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