1% TO OCEANS.

Since July 2024, we have pledged 1% of our revenue to the health and restoration of the worlds oceans.

We’ve chosen two organisations we trust to give your 1% to: CleanHub (Global) and Sea Forest Foundation (Lutruwita, Tasmania). 

The ocean is arguably the most critical biome on the planet, especially for the carbon cycle, yet it receives wayyyyy less public interest than terrestrial environments. We’re focusing on two key areas of ocean health: ocean-bound pollution and kelp forest restoration.  

Here’s a little more info on each of the organisations:

CleanHub

CleanHub builds and manages “CleanHubs”, waste collection facilities in major pollution hotspots (usually near the equator) that prevent and remove ocean-bound waste. Most specifically, CleanHub focuses on non-recyclable plastics, which are usually broken down and used in cement manufacturing. This reduces the cement industry's emissions massively, although it does still release emissions. 

Since 2020, they have collected over 13,000 tonnes of waste. You can track our contributions via the live widget to the right of the screen.

Sea Forest Foundation

Sea Forest Foundation is the side project of award-winning Sea Forest farm in Triabunna, Tasmania. The Foundation is committed to rebuilding the once colossal giant kelp (macrocystis pyrifera) forests in Tasmania (Tasmania has lost over 90% of the kelp forests in the past 20 years). With their world-class team, they propagate and plant giant kelp directly into intertidal areas so that, ultimately, these seeded beds grow into natural, self-supporting forests. 

Sea Forest Foundation was given a “forest scale” permit to run small trials of kelp restoration in 2022, and they are now beginning to plant out in the wild.

 

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1% TO PAYING THE RENT.

Since 2022, we have pledged 1% of our revenue to paying the rent.

Paying the rent is a step we take with you, collectively:
it acknowledges that we live on stolen land,
that First Nations sovereignty was never ceded,
and that this always was,
and always will be,
Aboriginal land.

Each quarter, payment is made to a First Nations-led, grassroots organisation. Our partners are:
Djirra
Pay The Rent
First Nations Futures
Firesticks Alliance

This is just one of of many steps we can take in solidarity;
we hope to take many more, with you.

Here's a little more info on the organisations:

Djirra

Djirra is predominantly designed by and for Aboriginal women, a place where practical support is available to all Aboriginal women, particularly to those who are currently experiencing family violence or have in the past.

Djirra is the Woiwurrung word for the reed used by Wurundjeri women for basket weaving.

Pay The Rent

Pay The Rent is a grassroot-to-grassroots organisation, based on the lands of the Kulin Nation.

Run by a Sovereign Body of First Nations representatives, Pay The Rent ensures decisions are made transparently and are centred around the needs of First Nations people.

Rent payments are payments made for the use and benefit of occupying Aboriginal land, and as a mechanism of reparation.

First Nations Futures

First Nations Futures is a new First Nations-led funding platform that redistributes wealth and collectively invests in First Nations initiatives to create intergenerational change.

They aim to drive economic justice in Australia, and bring into being futures that center First Nations people and solutions.

Firesticks Alliance

Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation is an Indigenous-led network that aims to restore cultural burning practices by facilitating cultural learning pathways to fire and land management. It is an initiative for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to look after Country, continuously building on past knowledge to form new connections and identities.

Firesticks Alliance also focuses on the mentorship of future fire stewards and scientific monitoring to better understand fire's ecological impact on Country.