Ethos magazine

“We need global and urgent action to address climate change,” says Titouan. “But meanwhile, we work in the field to make coral reefs more resilient.” Titouan Bernicot’s childhood sounds idyllic, taking his first steps on the tiny South Pacific atoll of Ahe, where his parents owned a pearl farm. A move to the French Polynesian island of Mo’orea with his family saw him graduate to surfing and free diving. And this was the moment. “When I was 16 years old,” he remembers, “I paddled out to my favourite reef break with some island friends, sat in the lineup and looked down. Something was different; the reef was all white, and had lost its colour.” Titouan admits that, at the time, he had no idea what this meant – or the significance of coral bleaching. “But it weighed on me that day and I began to research it,” he says. “We started as a small band of island kids who witnessed the rapid degradation of our local reef break. Coral reefs were not only dying around my island home, but all around the planet due to global warming.” Coral Gardeners are replanting coral, one reef at a time, creating an underwater world every bit as vibrant and psychedelic as the Beatles classic. Read Titouan's story from Ethos issue 21 here, on our website. Better yet, you can support or work and read it by getting a physical or digital copy of Ethos issue 21 now, online, or by becoming a subscriber and getting Ethos delivered to your door twice a year:

What do the Scottish Highlands and the African Great Green Wall have in common? 🤷♂️ Other than their gorgeous green-tinted landscapes and the ability to bisect their country or continent, these are sites in which innovative land management projects are taking place, tackling the global biodiversity crisis by restoring nature – and benefiting ecosystems, economies and communities, alike 🌍🌿 And they’re also both featured in our Ethos Long Read this issue. Get your copy here 👉 https://lnkd.in/d54pkZjz

Our Local Hero for Ethos 21 is nothing short of AWARD worthy 🏆 The Association for Women’s Awareness and Rural Development (AWARD) has a mission to empower women in Pakistan through education, awareness raising, skills enhancement and income generation for better standards of life. That’s where Azeem Christopher comes in; our local hero and AWARD's Programme Manager, having left his corporate job in the UK to help achieve with their mission. Read more about Azeem’s and AWARD’s heroic endeavours in our latest issue of Ethos: https://lnkd.in/d54pkZjz

If your to-do list for the month looks like this: 🍴 Rescue food 🐰 Be an eco-friendly pet owner 🌿 DON’T mow the lawn 😏 Get sexy outside Then you’ve clearly been reading pages 89 to 97 of Ethos 21, where a collection of our monthly Green Swaps challenges are bound. In this issue we share the swaps we set for April to August, inspired by green cleans, plastic avoidance, summer swaps and animal instincts. It’s our eco-ethos spread, and if you’re looking for an excuse to let your garden grow wild, to feast on leftover croissants and to rub up against local trees – all in the name of healing the Earth – then THIS is your kind of green-tinged read. Grab a copy of Ethos 21 here 👉 https://lnkd.in/d54pkZjz

“It helps if you see the city less as a fixed structure and more as a living lab where ideas for better streets, squares, and parks are constantly being tested.” Amsterdam-based agency Pop-Up City specialises in urban planning with a difference. Change, they believe, is the only constant in cities across the world today. And You see a lot of change when you work on the intersection of urbanism and communication, notes Pop-Up City's Managing Partner Jeroen Beekmans. Pop-Up City helps to create strategies that help shape cities and developments to be liveable, authentic, sustainable… Crucially, Pop-Up City uses a mixture of branding, content creation and concept development to do what we especially believe to be key: storytelling. They've also recently released The CityChangers Cookbook; a booklet created in collaboration with Urban Future outlining 20 practical and concrete ideas that cities can adopt immediately, with little fuss, to promote positive urban change.⁠ We caught up with Jeroen Beekmans to ask how we all can start improving our own urban environments, right here, right now. Read for yourself by visiting the link below or by becoming a subscriber and treating yourself to a physical copy of Ethos issue 21 today!

In our current issue of Ethos magazine we introduce our modern entrepreneur, Karmen Tang, a distinguished marketing consultant within the wellness space and founder of Good For You 😋 ⁠ Karmen T. tells us about all things brain health-related, about food brands, berries, electrolytes and probiotics, from the perspective of meals used as medicine for the body, mind and soul. Her article really is food for thought – sink your teeth into the latest issue of Ethos today 👉 https://lnkd.in/d54pkZjz

How do we convince businesses to become more sustainable? Hypnotism? Bribery? Food-based incentives? 🌎 Or do we take the worldly approach, in which we remind businesses that “if there’s no planet Earth left at the end of the day then who will there be to do business with?”. That’s what Robbie Dale, co-founder of Today Do This and author of the new guide 'How to make every job a sustainability' job thinks. “It’s those who embrace the reality today that will benefit in the future.” So what do you think? Read the rest in Ethos 21 and let us know if you agree 👉 https://lnkd.in/d54pkZjz 🌍

Stylish, durable and dishwasher safe; exactly how we like our life partners and our everyday homeware, right? Turns out Mud Australia has been specialising in the latter for the past 30 years, as one of Australia’s longest standing craft-based businesses, hand making porcelain masterpieces that are both “pretty and practical”, born from a sustainability-conscious desire to revive the connection between maker and material 🥣 Read all about Mud Australia’s three decades of porcelain production by getting your hands on a copy of the latest issue of Ethos 👉 https://lnkd.in/d54pkZjz

An Ethos 21 dating profile: 📖 Name: Ethos 🎂 Issue: 21 👍 Interests: Australian ceramicists, organic beauty products, long walks beside a coral reef 🌇 Favourite city break: two days in Vicenza 📚 Favourite read: The Consciousness Company by M.N. Rosen or any books published 90 years from now in a Norwegian forest 🍽️ Favourite meal: brain-fuelling dark chocolate, cow-free dairy and a spirit distilled by women 😍 What’s my type? People who are thoughtful, inspiring, world-changing. Those who are motivated by sustainability and eco-positivity. Those who advocate for community and wellness and play. Those who care deeply about what they do – and why they do it. Those who feature in this issue of Ethos 21 Ethos 21 has been released into the wild. Think you can tame her? Get yours here: https://lnkd.in/d54pkZjz

Our 21st issue of Ethos joyfully depicts children in motion – in still images! 📷 German photographer, Jan von Holleben, captures what it means to combine elements of play within his profession, focusing his efforts on the theme of the Olympics, using none other than the masters of playfulness themselves; kids! As a means of exploring and experimenting, his “Playful Olympics” series perfectly encapsulates the art of play, mixed with the act of work, and defines it as “the smartest trick” of his life. And we happen to agree. Have a read. Have a play. Have a copy of Ethos 21 by getting yours here 👉 https://lnkd.in/d54pkZjz