POSITIVE IMPACT
Spirited and sincere foodies seeking connections with passionate, caring life-changers. Keen to build "virtuous circles" of nourishment together.
A new world awaits
One lazy Sunday morning, bestie and her latest shattered my peace and my illusions by getting into a fight about recycling. The long and not-very-short of it is that when you pull back the curtains on just about anything sustainability-related it's an utter mess. Between outright ignorance and outright deceit, lies a whole landscape of unintended and unforseen consequences and collateral damage, which her now-ex said justified doing nothing.
- Can the Lark resume the Shell -
It took me a lot longer than it took Emily Dickenson → to appreciate losing the shell of innocent virtue I had enjoyed rinsing my empty milk alternative cartons and carefully flat-packing them in the recycling bin. But once the dust and paper scraps settled, we realised that in a world of harm, just aiming to 'do no harm' (i.e. have neutral impact), is in fact tantamount to doing nothing. So we started pulling back curtains wherever we found them - from what was on our plates to what we put in our bins - digging through complexity and past average to find the stories of positive impact that could fan the heart flames we'd set out to ignite.
Ingenious, passionate and thoughtful people
Actively changing our world.
Behind those curtains we found a whole new world of people whose products and services meet our needs with authentic consideration, care and attention to detail that make us feel loved. I don't mean just another cool thing to buy (there's a lot of that out there too). I mean the kind of passionate and inspirational people who aren't just using recyclable paper as a neutral nod to the sustainability trend, but are striving to have positive impact on the world through doing what they love as the full focus of their lives and livelihoods, earning what we think of as positive income.
Love is a verb to be acted upon
Opening those curtains moved us beyond our immediate food experiences to really appreciate the farmer who loves and respects his sheep, the rose grower who listens to her land, the distributor who wants to make healthful products accessible to people just like him. And moved us from searching for love, to showing it.
Every time we find a positive impact story that makes us go:
Fuck yes!
In true romcom cliché style, we want to shout it from the rooftops!
Our circle of nourishment
And in truly melodramatic wannabe-romcom-heroine style, we staked our lives on our loves. We left our day jobs to work for positive income too. We've thrown ourselves into creating and furthering virtuous circles of positive impact: working to increase the difference these life- and world-changers are making and helping to grow their positive impact by supporting and promoting them.
Our work is funded by the affiliate commissions we get if you buy something we love. In that way, we nourish those we love by sharing their products and services with you and, if you love them too, our sharing in turn nourishes us.
Our Nourriture.
We find
We search for better, aiming for best
We wade through all the confusion and complexity researching not only what makes our lives feel better and work better, but what makes us feel good all the way through to our core.
- Optimising for the individual
I look for the sweet spot between functional, beautiful and 'good'. Bestie insists on ease, efficiency and thoughtful beauty. We don't follow one-size approaches: Optimal is personal.
We love
Elegant positive impact solutions
Positive impact stories always set our hearts aflutter. The ones that bring beauty to our senses, exquisite ease and joy to our lives are what we strive to find and share with you.
We buy, we use and then we review
Sounds obvious, but it's often not. We only review what we've paid for and used in our everyday lives. We don't always agree and you won't either. More views means deeper understanding so please share yours!
We share
We must add value
When we find something worth sharing, we ask ourselves why we should be involved, what value we can add to you and to everyone in the "circle of nourishment". Only if we believe we can, we do.
If we add value, we earn
Purchases based on our sharing, mean we've helped to grow the positive impact of those whose products and services we love, which in turn nourishes us through the affiliate commissions we earn.
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