• Home
  • About
  • Discounts
  • Blog
    • Conscious Clothing
    • Organic Care + Wellness
    • Eco Home + Living
    • Sustainable Travel
      • Australia
      • Borneo + Malaysia
      • Hawai’i
      • Italy
      • Timor-Leste
      • Adventure Advice
  • Services
    • Collaborations
    • Digital Marketing
  • Contact
Molly Farai

Ethical + Eco Living

Skip to content
  • Sustainable Travel and Ethical Living

    Sustainable Travel

    4 Reasons Why Sustainable Travel is a Must for Ethical Living

    Talking about ethics in travel is a risky road. Doesn’t travelling generally exploit culture, commodify ancient monuments, and cause even more environmental damage?

    Read More

    • Sooooo nervous-excited to embark on a new personal Sooooo nervous-excited to embark on a new personal adventure as of tomorrow 😏 Only took me 8 years to get my shit together, finetune the skills, and destroy what I no longer need to make the space for it. Stay tuned for the happy, HAPPY announcement tomorrow – get on my mailing list if you want to be the first to know but I'm sure we can all guess by now 🎬✨
    I feel the cogs in all parts of my life slowing. A I feel the cogs in all parts of my life slowing. And it's soo good. Slow fashion. Slow collaborations. Slow partnerships. Slow business. Slow living. Contrary to popular belief, 'slow' doesn't equal less, lazy or boring. When thought, time, and effort go into it, 'slow' can create quality, depth, authenticity, and power. I'd rather the latter trickle through everything I do, what about you?
    Sustainable tee photo dump 👕 Two tops I've been Sustainable tee photo dump 👕 Two tops I've been living in after receiving them as a PR sample from @citizen_wolf ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Citizen Wolf makes all their pieces (men's and women's designs) ethically (@ethicalclothingaustralia certified) in Sydney, meaning that not only are they locally made but the people who made them are paid fairly and work under the right conditions. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ YES there is modern slavery happening in Australia right now – not everything made locally is made ethically ‼️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Citizen Wolf has also voluntarily opted-in to the #ModernSlaveryAct, to identify and abolish slavery from their entire supply chain, all the way through to the sourcing of their raw materials. PLUS they also upcycle their yearly offcuts into a zero-waste range ♻️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ These tees were made to order with custom sizing and are carbon negative, also. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🦋 Blue tee: The Oversized Half Crew in Deep Teal / made from a hemp organic cotton blend ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🌲 Green top: The Oversized Long Crew in British Racing Green / made from 180GSM (thick!) organic cotton ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ P.S. If you're in need of something new, please use my affiliate code 'mollyfarai' for $25 off. Pleasure to have this beautiful brand in my list of Aussie favourites now! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [PR sample/affiliation] @citizen_wolf
    So terribly saddened to hear of the floods in Timo So terribly saddened to hear of the floods in Timor-Leste and Indonesia happening right now (thanks @rachiepooo for drawing my attention to it). There have been at least 150 people killed in Indonesia and Timor-Leste after tropical cyclone Seroja hit the region this week, and at least 8,000 people have lost their homes. This is all on top of the panoramic happening and a high risk of getting it for those who've fled the disaster. What saddens me, even more, is that, although Australia is helping with the disaster relief, we're still doing so little to acknowledge and reduce our part in climate change. We're ignoring the possibility of REDUCING the frequency and severity of flooding and extreme weather disasters in the first place. Helping with the aftermath but doing so little about future occurrences just doesn't add up to me. If you have the means to help, I'll pop two links in my bio: 1. The Timor-Leste Easter Floods Disaster Relief GoFundMe 2. An article about how to write an effective letter to your MP about climate change It shouldn't be up to us to stand for the future, but it's up to us to do what we can 🙏
    Local travel DOES NOT automatically mean sustainab Local travel DOES NOT automatically mean sustainable travel ❌ And sustainable travel does not automatically mean creating a BETTER future for our planet. I really don't think there has been a better place to be in 2020 + 21 than WA and I am so, sooo incredibly grateful to call this sunny bubble of paradise my home. Here's a couple of things I've done on my recent adventures around Western Australia + some tips to create a POSITIVE ripple effect: 🚐 Carpool with friends 🗑 Clean up the trail as you hike 🌿 Support the @ecotourismaustralia attractions, tours, operators, and accommodation 🤠 Bring along your local ecologist and learn about the flora and ecosystems (heh this is a joke because this is mostly what my adventures look like with @glennmaslen but also, it actually helps!) 🙌 Seek to learn about the history of the land and support aboriginal business 🚯 Don't litter (I feel like this is a given but so many highways in WA have a lot of rubbish along the sides) 🏠 Stay at locally owned accommodation that ALSO does great things for the environment (look for self-sufficiency, solar-powered, rainwater tanks, places made from sustainable materials, composting systems like at @tree_chalets. There are also some cool permaculture farms and camping spots worth staying at like @fair_harvest_permaculture). ♻️ Bring your resuables and use them!! I can't stress this enough. Don't let your positive habits go out the window just cause you're in a different place! 🛍 Consider whether you really need to shop for clothes or homewares, or if you're just trying to squeeze shopping in as a holiday 'activity'. I like to create a list of people + planet driven businesses and secondhand stores in the places I visit and then support them first, if I need something new. 🌊 Travel with the intention of leaving a place better than you found it. Volunteer while travelling. Join a cleanup crew. Give your time to a community. Bring your skills on the road. Most of all, take the time to connect with the place that is providing for you — sit with the feeling of freedom, oneness, joy. Tune into that reverence and take it with you when you return home 🍂
    How I feel about hearing that the Trans-Tasman bub How I feel about hearing that the Trans-Tasman bubble is opening up 🕺🌿 Over the course of the pandemilovato, I tried to clasp onto a part of my identity that I've been feeling is slowly fading away: 'sustainable traveller'. For those with immigrant parents, those who took gap years, those who studied abroad, and those who are forever seeking new perspectives, mentors, friends and homes, immersing ourselves in the world – all parts of it – has been a fundamental part of learning how to live. From 2017, I began to learn about how there are ways to travel in a way that not only reduce our negative impact on other people, animals, and ecosystems, but also to actually contribute to a better present and future in the process — that's one difference between sustainability and regeneration. In early 2019, I started to plan. I planned an adventure that could serve as an example for regenerative travel, only to have to file it away for 'later'. Little did I know, that would be years later. I still have that one stored away. And, instead of a couple of months, I'm looking at turning that adventure into a two or more year journey – one that I KNOW will lead me to the peace, paddocks, and people I'm destined to land before. But, in the meantime, I'm thrilled at the thought of returning to Aotearoa towards the end of this year (as well as the top end of WA for birthday season) and instead of clasping onto the identity of 'sustainable traveller', re-saturating myself in it. To a wild and exploratory future 🥂🏔

    Receive the New Moon Newsletter

    • Privacy Policy

    Copyright 2021 Molly Farai