An Hour In Nature

An Hour in Nature: Gigi Hopkins

How nature helps Gigi Hopkins to ‘travel light’ Ten years ago, Gigi Hopkins gave up a corporate career in Sydney to go travelling and, in her words, to find and...

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An Hour in Nature: Julia Ashwood

Bangalow based mum of two little ones Julia Ashwood’s love of travel, spaces and collaborating with artists has seen her explore the world.  Writer and Founder of the ‘The Vista’...

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An Hour in Nature: Camilla Marcus

In 2018, Californian-born chef and entrepreneur Camilla Marcus opened west~bourne, the first zero-waste certified restaurant in New York City. Camilla has now carried the west~bourne ethos (and its healthy, sustainable,...

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Lou Bannister

Lou Bannister, mum of three, co-founder and editorial director of Lunch Lady Magazine, and occasional skateboarder, reveals why her relationship with nature is one of the most important things in...

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Chloe Brookman

Chloe Brookman lives with her husband and four children formerly in Byron Bay and now Coogee, where she combines parenthood with running Olli Ella, an international lifestyle and home-wares brand...

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Lucy Feagins

Lucy Feagins is the editor of The Design Files, Australia’s most popular design blog. Even though she lives in inner city Melbourne, Lucy manages to make nature a vital part of...

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Kesiah Bascom

We caught up with Kesiah Bascom to ask about her relationship with nature. A dynamo in the sustainable agriculture and food justice realm, Kesiah is the founder of OffBeet Compost,...

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Dee Tang

Channelling creativity, curiosity and spirituality through her family, home, and freelance design practice, Dee Tang lives in ‘the Lady California,’ a beautiful old California-style bungalow in Fremantle, Western Australia. She...

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Veronica McCarthy

Beaches at night, and sunlight in the morning Until you’ve looked at a health, beauty or lifestyle issue through the eyes of writer and creative director Veronica McCarthy, you perhaps...

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Jenny Ringland

Our latest Minding Nature features Jenny Ringland: co-founder and director of Green + Simple, a sustainable living platform founded on the philosophy that the greatest change you can make is...

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Lia Ices

Tuning into the wild and the sacred with Lia Ices American singer-songwriter Lia Ices lives with her husband Scribe Winery co-founder Andrew Mariani and their two young children in Sonoma,...

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Courtney Adamo

How Courtney Adamo lets nature restore her perspective Minding Nature is Koala Eco’s regular thread where we talk to inspiring people we believe genuinely live and breathe a nature-focused lifestyle, and...

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Helena Vestergaard

How Helena finds her ‘natural reset’ moments We’re thrilled to welcome our very first contributor to Minding Nature, Koala Eco’s new, regular thread where we talk to inspiring people we...

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Notes from a Natural Way of Life

‘We need the tonic of wildness…[w]e can never have enough of nature.’ Written around 170 years ago, these words appear in Henry David Thoreau’s account of a two-year experiment of...

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