THE MAGICAL TALE OF HOW A BAREFOOT DREAMER CREATED A WAY TO MERGE BEAUTY, LUXURY & SAVING THE PLANET INTO ONE EXTRAORDINARY MISSION...
The Sisterhood of Sustainability was founded in Brisbane, Australia in 2016 by a wild hearted, barefoot dreamer – Sophie Mulheran. It was through a beautiful passion for both creativity and taking care of the wilderness that this inspiring and empowering brand and community was born. Since launching, it has always been our mission to give back to the earth by handcrafting items that are sustainable and ethical whilst inspiring and empowering women to live in a conscious and earth friendly way by providing beautiful and zero waste alternatives to everyday moments and products.
Through every little thing that we do and create, we're dedicated to giving back to the environment and community while inspiring beautiful people from around the world to walk a little lighter...
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DID YOU KNOW...
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We create ALL of our homewares, stationery & giftware with 100% recycled & sustainable materials |
All of our products are shipped entirely carbon neutral, thanks to Sendle & are wrapped plastic free |
Your purchase is supporting our environmental and community initiatives, events & projects |
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Items and materials are saved from landfill and recycling centres to create each of our items |
Remove 1oo pieces of rubbish from the environment on your behalf for every order we receive |
Are proudly carbon negative due to our sustainable business practices & eco-friendly projects |
About the Founder of The Sisterhood of Sustainability
Hello there! I'm Sophie, the heart and soul behind The Sisterhood of Sustainability.
As a child, I spent my time climbing trees, picking bouquets of wildflowers and making mud pies. My upbringing has shaped me into the person I am today and has led me on a path to realising my dreams and passions. My greatest passion is giving back to this beautiful earth that we all live on and my appreciation for nature is what inspired me to create The Sisterhood of Sustainability.
I believe that leading a sustainable lifestyle shouldn't mean that you have to compromise beauty or luxury.
Sustainability is about thinking outside of the box, enjoying and appreciating the small moments in life and making the most of what you have. I've made it my mission inspire and empower women from around the world to start their own sustainable journey by providing beautiful and zero waste alternatives to everyday moments and products. I'm here to educate, share ideas, offer resources, provide advice and share inspiration.
It is my dream that The Sisterhood of Sustainability and its community become the go-to place for everything relating to seasonal and sustainable living and hope that you find exactly what you're looking for right here.
A little piece of love from,
Sophie xxx
Our goal is to...
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Make a real & positive difference for the earth within both our local and global communities |
Inspire others to live sustainably & ethically and to showcase that it can be luxurious and beautiful! |
Leave the earth more beautiful than we found it & to create a greener and cleaner future for all |
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THE POSITIVE IMPACT THAT YOUR PURCHASE IS MAKING...
We follow a unique design and manufacturing plan to achieve the highest level of ethical and sustainable standards possible. Each and every product is hand designed and then either ethical handmade with 100% recycled and sustainable materials or produced in an Australian factory that runs entirely off solar power. From there each item is beautifully packaged in 100% recycled materials and is shipped carbon neutral, right to your door thanks to Sendle – Australia’s first carbon neutral shipping company. We’ve only got one earth, if we don’t start taking action and owning responsibility for our excessive amounts of waste, we’re going to ruin the one chance we have to reverse the detrimental effects we’ve had on our lands waters and wildlife. By supporting The Sisterhood of Sustainability, you are supporting sustainable and ethical solutions for the future and are helping us the revolutionise the homewares and stationery industry.
Don't just take our word for it, hear what our customers have to say...
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We've been featured in...
We are honoured to have been featured in many esteemed publications and productions for our sustainable and ethical business practices as well as the way we are inspiring the world around us to lead eco-friendly and conscious lifestyles. Thank you to the editors, writers and photographers who were involved in the creation of each of these articles and for helping us to spread our "little piece of love" a little further...
THE COURIER MAILJuly 2018
Our brand was showcased for our sustainable business practices and unique projects, to highlight the future of "green business" 
BRING YOUR OWN KOMBUCHA BLOGMay 2018
We were thrilled to be featured on the BYOK Blog to raise awareness for businesses that incorporate eco-friendly processes and initiatives. 
WOMEN OF IMPACT SERIESMarch 2020
We were featured this inspiring video series for our International Women's Day project and work within the women empowerment realm |
QLD BUSINESS MONTHLYJuly 2018
Our brand was featured due to our homewares, stationery and giftware being designed to reduce our impact on the planet and community 
POPPY & SAGE PHOTOGRAPHYJune 2018
Poppy & Sage interviewed us after our Parisian inspired photoshoot and collaboration with several other local and creative businesses 
NO SERIAL NUMBER MAGAZINEMarch 2018
This article explores our sustainable and ethical goals as well as taking a closer look at how we are giving back to the environment and community |
94.1fm - WHAT A WONDERFUL worLD RADIOMarch 2020
In this live radio interview, we were recognised for our inspiring and empowering International Women's Day project and publication 
COUNTRY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION MAGAZINEMay 2019
Our feature in the Ruth Magazine highlighted our dedication to using handcrafting methods to create our homewares, stationery & giftware 
AWARD NOMINATIONS2016 - Present
QLD Community Achievement Awards Westfield Local Heroes Award Telstra Business Awards |
About our Circular Economy Mission
Part of our commitment to sustainability and ethicality involves our mission of creating a circular economy within our business structure and through our community. A circular economy (often referred to simply as "circularity") is an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources. Circular systems employ reuse, sharing, repair, refurbishment, remanufacturing and recycling to create a close-loop system, minimising the use of resource inputs and the creation of waste, pollution and carbon emissions.
The circular economy aims to keep products and equipment in use for longer, thus improving the productivity of these resources
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All 'waste' should become 'food' for another process: either a by-product or recovered resource for another process, or as regenerative resources for nature
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This regenerative approach is in contrast to the traditional linear economy, which has a 'take, make, dispose' model of production
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This is incorporated within The Sisterhood of Sustainability through our refusal to use plastic packaging, the reduction of energy and materials used during our design and creation process, the re-using of materials such as paper, cardboard and fabric, repairing our tools and equipment to keep them in use and out of landfill for longer, recovering energy and materials by upcycling unusable items into new and beautiful products and recycling materials and resources to create a closed loop system and to ensure that materials are used for their intended purpose and not wasted. This circular economy model ensures that we are creating minimal impact on the earth and its people within everything we do and create at The Sisterhood of Sustainability which in turn helps to fight climate change, plastic pollution and excessive landfill.
A wide-spread circular economy model is the answer to creating a more sustainable and ethical future. Our model is based on minimising the extraction of raw materials and replacing it with resources locked up and forgotten in our waste. Combined with the use of renewable energy, reduced emissions, and greater industry efficiency, a circular economy provides our best chance to live within the bounds of the earth's capacity. The four key benefits of implementing a circular economy are: the avoidance of environmental damage caused by resource extraction, less pollution entering the earth's life support systems, the creation of new green industries and jobs and reduced dependence on importation of raw materials.
Our sustainable & ethical projects...
Dreams are becoming reality with our community and environmental based projects & initiatives. We're always creating new ways to be involved in our local and global community as well as sharing fascinating ideas on how to live sustainably. We've always more than one project on the go and we want you to get involved in as many as possible! Start browsing our sustainable and ethical projects and initiatives...
Celebrating special occasions & events...
We've got a beautiful range of sustainably and ethically crafted gifts for every occasion... We'd also love to invite you to all of our exclusive events! From our sustainable Christmas range to our array of Valentine's Day gift cards and our signature International Women's Day Project, we've got gift ideas for every occasion and something for absolutely everyone to get involved in!
Events, workshops & sustainability discussions...
We've created The Sisterhood of Sustainability community as a way of bringing women together to make a positive difference or our planet and to those around us. By becoming a member (for free) you'll discover an abundance of eco-friendly inspiration, wonderful competitions, informative blog posts, regular community challenges and beautiful content...
