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Sustainability

Beauty

You Can Now Refill Your Body Shop Products Packaging-Free in Vancouver

New concept store reconnects to its roots with a refill station at Pacific Centre.

Style

A Messenger Bag With A Message

Social enterprise Brave Soles produces a line of bags and accessories made from upcycled airplane materials.

Frank And Oak

Style

Frank And Oak’s Eco Outerwear

Green style.

The Montreal-based company launches a line of innovative sustainable jackets.

Impact

Nespresso’s Vancouver Recycling Program

Eco-brews.

Simply place used Nespresso pods into a designated green bag and put them out with regular blue box recycling.

Food and Drink

Urban Digs Farm

Pig out.

Food waste is a dizzyingly large global problem. Each week, Urban Digs Farm in South Burnaby diverts over 7,000 pounds of organic waste from the landfill and resource intense commercial composting.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Olla Flowers

Design

Olla Urban Flower Project

Say it with flowers.

Olla Urban Flower Project carries beautiful and unusual indoor and outdoor living containers that bring a breath of fresh air into tired or frequently visited spaces.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Ryan Beil

5th Anniversary

Five Years of Profiles

In the pages of MONTECRISTO over the past five years, you’ll find a pack of local outliers—leaders and talent pushing the boundaries of our social and civic lives.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Transportation

Making the Hydrogen Fuel Cell a Reality

Fuelled dreams.

A dedicated group of scientists, engineers, industrial designers, and technicians are working hard to replace one of the signature technology of modern civilization: the internal combustion engine.

MONTECRISTO: 100 Mile House Open Design Competition

Design

100 Mile House Open Design Competition

Close to home.

The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia asked both industry pros and serious amateurs to rethink the concept of the “green” home by submitting plans for a 1,200-square foot house using only materials manufactured, recycled, or re-purposed from within 100-miles of Vancouver City Hall.