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goodchat. - Berish Bilander from Green Music Australia
Berish Bilander is a passionate campaigner, accomplished musician with an Honours degree from WAAPA, a music teacher for 12 years and has toured as a freelance pianist for Vika, Linda and The General Assembly. He’s also the CEO of Green Music Australia…
goodchat. - Jayden Bath from Loch Hart Festival
For our second #goodchat, we spoke to Jayden Bath, the director of Loch Hart festival. Loch Hart is a three-day camping, BYO event with an all-Australian lineup set in Princetown, Victoria. It has been running since the inaugural 2018 event, and sadly due to COVID-19…
goodchat. - Jason Rahilly from B-Alternative
For the first #goodchat, Sam spoke with Jason (Jace), carpenter, Earthship builder and founder of the wonderful organisation B-Alternative who provide practical solutions to help events reduce their waste all over Australia…
bettercup x Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival
We were lucky enough to be invited to Darwin to bring cups for the Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival last weekend, and it was one the most fun experiences we have had with bettercup! The layout of the festival is several bars, stages and many market stalls of food, clothing and other little gatherings…
An Insider’s Guide to Switching to Reusable Cups
We get a lot of questions of all kinds from people who run events or have venues about how implementing reusable cups will work best for them. There are a lot of things to consider in order to make an event run smoothly, and generally speaking…
Plastic. Sigh, we know. Ban plastic, #plasticfree. Plastic is still a huge part of our lives in general, whether we like it or not. The way it’s made is a bit unfortunate too- usually derived from coal, natural gas and crude oil…
BIGSOUND 2018 - Bloody Mary Brunch Hosted by bettercup
Bigsound is an annual 4 day showcase of emerging artists, conferences and parties, hosted across 18 venues in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. In 2018 we attended to spread the word for a reusable future. What we found when we arrived was a jam-packed timetable…
Environmental Hypocrisy and why that’s okay
I feel like 99% of the people that care about the environment are also hypocrites. There. I said it and that also includes myself. But wait, please let me explain. In today’s world, unless you are living completely off the grid and somewhat removed from society it’s hard to live completely green – and sometimes, yes, we fail…
Two days in Hobart for Dark Mofo isn’t enough, But if it’s all you’ve got, take it anyway. The bloated programme means you’ll almost scratch the surface of what Dark Mofo is about, and likely regret what you’ve missed for weeks, but it’s still worth it.
Plastics Economy Part 2: The Future of Plastics
2018 so far seems to be THE year to have discussions around plastic. Now more than ever we are bombarded with information that impedes factual and informed decision making and people and businesses alike are increasingly exposed to swift judgement online…
Sustainable Living Festival - Big Weekend 2018
We were excited to attend the Sutainable Living Fesitval’s ‘Big Weekend’ that was held for 3 days on the banks of Birrarung Marr in Melbourne. The National Sustainable Living Festival aims to accelerate the uptake of sustainable living and seeks solutions to climate change that will…
A Short History of Microfibers
Bad news. Turns out when you wash your clothes, towels and blankets that are made of synthetic materials, they release tiny microfibres into your washing machine. Your washing machine drains into your sewer pipe. Your sewer pipe goes to a treatment plant, which removes all the debris and organic matter…
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