Koala Eco News, Stories & Inspiration

An Hour in Nature  Shane Weafer is the owner of Body Tonic SB, a boutique Pilates studio in Santa Barbara's Funk Zone. Born in Japan and...

Edition 04 - Mandarin Australian Botanicals, Memory, and the Living Landscape of Scent We don’t look at our essential oils through the lens of fragrance....

An Hour in Nature with Barbora Samieian, co-founder of Sundays and Hetta. With four small children and a start-up, Barbora Samieian says that stretch of...

Edition 03 - Eucalyptus Radiata Australian Botanicals, Memory, and the Living Landscape of Scent We don’t look at our essential oils through the lens of...

Somewhere this morning, a person crouched at the edge of a swimming pool, lifting beetles, bees and spiders out of the water with their hands....

On the Conservation Scholars Program, and what the children said afterwards "I never even been on a boat before. But now I get it, why...

Spring is here, and so it's the perfect time to banish the winter dust and grime from our homes in readiness for sunnier days and...

Jessica and Paul never set out to reinvent cleaning products. But when their infant son was diagnosed with cancer, they began questioning every item they...

Since founding Koala Eco, our journey has grown into something far beyond creating safe, powerful, plant-based products for a clean home, body and mind. It...

Edition 02 - Rosalina Australian Botanicals, Memory, and the Living Landscape of Scent We don’t look at our essential oils through the lens of fragrance....

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”— Henry David Thoreau A major paper in Science Advances recently described mental health as an “ecosystem service”...

For decades, we’ve been taught that strong smells and harsh chemicals are the markers of a “proper clean.” But in reality, cleaning can be both...

Spring is here, and so it's the perfect time to banish the winter dust and grime from our homes in readiness for sunnier days and...

How resetting our homes resets us Spring arrives almost imperceptibly at first — a little more light in the morning, windows opened a little wider,...

How nature, scent and simple habits help us reset   “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” —...

A Natural, Room-by-Room Guide to Refreshing Your Home   Spring is a time of renewal. As the light shifts and the air becomes warmer, many...

An Hour in Nature with Sam and Ellie Studd "Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality," wrote Clifton Fadiman. Sam and Ellie Studd grew up cheese...

Many of us are far more critical of ourselves than we would ever be of others. We move quickly from one task to the next,...

“I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a source of boredom, namely awareness.”— Fernando Pessoa One of the quiet burdens of modern life...

What a Norwegian lake can teach us about the difference between solitude and loneliness “I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude,”...

"Nothing is more memorable than a smell." Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses What does nature smell like to you? The question is...

A genuinely clean home isn’t about harsh chemicals or endless scrubbing — it’s about simple, consistent habits and the right plant-based cleaning products. These are...

Edition 01 - Lemon Myrtle Australian Botanicals, Memory, and the Living Landscape of Scent We don’t look at our essential oils through the lens of...

Reconnecting with the power of gardening.  ‘In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical “therapy” to be vitally important...