Featured Stories
This week we give you a sneak peak into Issue 2. Dr Sandro Demaio talks to Jamie Oliver about trust.
Interview by Dr Sandro Demaio
Since the federal government approved the manufacture of hemp seed for human consumption last November, Australian interest is high. According to one young Tasmanian hemp seed farmer and aspiring health entrepreneur, we should be utilising the ancient, medicinal properties of the hemp plant, not simply adding it to our granola.
Words by Melissa Howard
Bea Johnson is the fairy godmother of the modern zero waste movement; for the past several years her family’s entire yearly waste has fitted in a small glass jar. Her seminal book, ‘Zero Waste Home’, published in 2013, has inspired millions of people around the world to minimise their waste and is now printed in over 20 different languages. The Source Bulk Foods recently brought Bea out to Australia for a week of talks and presentations. She managed to speak to us just before she was due on stage about how zero waste works and how it’s given her a new sense of abundance, harmony and happiness.
Interview by Mathew Bate
Earlier this year we caught up with Dr. Gopi Krishna Vijaya. He holds a PhD in physics and has devoted most of his life to the relationship between humans and the development of technology. He had just flown over from the US to run the Moral Technologies Forum (organised by Seed Australia) in Melbourne on morals, technology and how to be a good human in our digital era. Covering the historical development of technology, the way we think and modern education, Dr. Gopi Krishna Vijaya discusses the intrapersonal relationship between humans and the technologies that we have created.
Read More
With research showing that Virtual Reality headsets are helping chronically ill children experience less anxiety and less pain during their hospital procedures, we immerse ourselves into the world of VR at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and take a look at what they’re doing to help those fighting cancer.
Read More
‘Ethical’ fashion is on trend. But is it even possible for fashion – an entire industry based on selling us new versions of ourselves every season – to be ethical? We speak with the designers trying to make the change.
Read More
Walking to work one morning, Daniel Rath saw a homeless man painting. Interested in his work, he struck up a conversation with the man about his art and life. That brief encounter inspired Rath to establish Open Canvas, a social enterprise that empowers artists who've experienced homelessness, a disability, or other adversity to exhibit and sell their artwork and art-related merchandise.
Read More
Ollie Cotsaftis, founder and design director of the future ensemble, sessional academic at RMIT Architecture and Design, artist and Doctor of Genetics (PhD) talks us through the world of CRISPR and its potential usage for the future of both healthcare and design.Ollie Cotsaftis, founder and design director of the future ensemble, sessional academic at RMIT Architecture and Design, artist and Doctor of Genetics (PhD) talks us through the world of CRISPR and its potential usage for the future of both healthcare and design.
Read More
While technology is the answer to a lot of our problems, there’s still a lot to be said for looking to Mother Nature for answers. After all, she’s been getting it right for millennia.
Read More
Gwen Gordon is an Emmy award winning Creative Director who started her career building Muppets for Sesame Street. She’s gone on to build furry computers for kids at MIT and been San Quentin Prison’s artist-in-residence. Passionate about the power of play, we chatted with Gwen about her career and just how she persuaded even the most powerful corporations to get playful.
Read More
As SMS becomes slowly replaced by social media and instant messaging there’s a group of mothers in Timor-Leste who are using this ‘outdated system’ as a way to save their own lives and the lives of their babies.
Read More
While technology is the answer to a lot of our problems, there’s still a lot to be said for looking to Mother Nature for answers. After all, she’s been getting it right for millennia.
Read More
As more and more of us regularly use fitness trackers to monitor our movement and sleep patterns it’s becoming ever easier to stay focused on our health. But would you go so far as to ingest or inject trackers or tattoo them on your body? Welcome to the world of internables.
Read More