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A CONSCIOUS COLLECTION MAGAZINE A COLLECTION OF HEALTH, WELLBEING, TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE ‘19 PLASTIC POLLUTION THE NEW GLOBAL HEALTH EPIDEMIC MODERN MINIMALISM WHY LIVING WITH LESS SPRING / SUMMER / SPRING GIVES YOU MORE LIFE NATHALIE KELLEY “WE FIND IT SO EASY TO LOVE OTHER PEOPLE AND HAVE SUCH A HARD TIME LOVING OURSELVES” EDITION 10 ESCAPE BODY LOVE RELATIONSHIPS DESERT DESIRES: PALM TREE EDIBLE BEAUTY: WHY INNER HEALTH CRAZY IN LOVE IS MORE THAN JUST A PARADISE WHERE THE STARS FIND SUPPLEMENTS MIGHT BE THE BEYONCE SONG. THERE’S A SCIENTIFIC THEIR SANCTUARY KEY TO AN OUTER GLOW EXPLANATION FOR IT . A CONSCIOUS COLLECTION MAGAZINE EDITION 10 FOUNDER AND EDITOR IN CHIEF BROOKE MEREDITH [email protected] DEPUTY EDITOR TIANNA NADALIN [email protected] PHOTO EDITOR DAVID HIGGS AT HOME WITH FASHION EDITOR ELAINE MARSHALL CONTRIBUTORS NATHALIE GEMMA WATTS, JESS MATTHEWS, LAUREN MACKELLAR, ALAN THOMAS, LILLY KEYS, GIULIANA CRESCENTINI, JON HECHTKOPF, LAUREN SCHULZ, PAUL VERSACE, MADDIE LEVETT, DEVON NUSZER, AGA KELLEY JAKUBOWSKI, RICKY FABRIZIO, GEORGIA GIBBS, NIKKI HILLIER “We find it so easy to love other people ART DIRECTOR / DESIGN and have such a hard time loving ourselves.” BROOKE MEREDITH RECIPE DEVELOPMENT / PHOTOGRAPHY TURN TO PAGE 32 BROOKE MEREDITH ADVERTISING / PARTNERSHIPS [email protected] BROUGHT TO YOU BY ACONSCIOUSCOLLECTION.COM PROUDLY SUPPORTING A CONSERVATION ORGANISATION WITH A MISSION TO PROTECT AS MUCH OF THE WORLD’S BIODIVERSITY AS POSSIBLE AND TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TO RECONNECT WITH NATURE. 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ACTIVE MEDITATION 44 TREND REPORT 45 RELATIONSHIPS 47 HOLLYWOOD’S HOTTEST WORKOUT. NOW OPEN IN MELBOURNE. www.risenation.com.au @RISENATIONAU CONTENTS / ISSUE TEN 7 A CONSCIOUS COLLECTION TR AVEL LIGHT VERSATILE AND PERFECT FOR ANY OCCASION ROLLIE SLINGBACK PUNCH KHAKI, $169.95 EDITOR’S LETTER One of my favourite things about running this business (besides when we get to meet you, our gorgeous conscious community) is the flexibility and opportunity to travel. Having the honour of working with inspiring creatives across the globe to curate incredible, motivational content is one of the things I love most about this work. Like most people, travel inspires me beyond my wildest imagination. It fuels the adrenaline that courses through my veins. It helps re-build the creative blocks when I’m feeling stuck or just damn-right blah (yes, I’m human, too!). I would even say it’s the stimulus that helps us go from good to GREAT, encouraging me to think outside the box, challenging my - and also the industry’s – creativity, shaping us to be bolder, push boundaries and try things we potentially would not attempt in the safety of our daily commune. I do believe that it’s our journeys across different oceans, to different countries, experiencing different cultures, and not being too rigid in an office routine, that has helped shape our creative potential, enabling us to bring you the best content we know you all look forward to engaging with each issue. For that flexibility and opportunity, I’ll be forever grateful. As you flip through the pages of this issue, which was produced from our LA HQ, you will notice a common theme of iridescent warm light and backdrops distant from Melbourne. We hope you take inspiration from our articles on minimalism (page 12) and plastic pollution – a topic very dear to us as it touches people from every country we touch down in and one that needs more attention far beyond the pages of our magazine. Turn to page 8 to read all about this global health epidemic. We were also invited in to the home of Peru-born, Australia- raised actress Nathalie Kelley, of Unreal and The Vampire Diaries fame, who shares her experience of life in LA and her unique self-love practices (page 32). Br o o k e M er e d it h EDITOR A CONSCIOUS COLLECTION EDITOR’S LETTER / ISSUE TEN ROLLIENATION.COM @ROLLIENATION 9 A CONSCIOUS COLLECTION hen we talk about plastic, we often picture PLASTIC pantries filled with containers and food products. We think of plastic as something tangible, as something we can choose to interact POLLUTION: THE Wwith or avoid; not as nanoparticles that have infiltrated every part of our lives. Newspaper articles tell us we can reduce our plastic footprint by not drinking plastic bottled water, NEW HEALTH using take-away containers or food wrap, or by recycling the bags our bread comes in and the polystyrene platters on which our meat and vegetables come neatly packaged. While EPIDEMIC these things help, they are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to plastic pollution. SO WHAT ARE PLASTICS ANYWAY? In its purist form, plastic is basically just a shapeshifter. It is defined as a material that can change its shape. While it is derived from natural, organic materials such as cellulose, coal, natural gas, salt and, of course, crude oil, the finished product is anything but. Plastic is made from polymers, which are long chains of atoms bonded together. These building blocks are made of carbon and hydrogen and sometimes oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, chlorine, fluorine, phosphorous or silicon. Plastics are generally lightweight and durable, and can be moulded, extruded, cast and blown into seemingly limitless shapes, films or foams, or even drawn into fibres for textiles. ARE THEY REALLY THAT BAD? Humans started producing plastic en masse in the 1950s and, since then, we have made a whopping 8.3 billion metric tonnes of the stuff, most of which, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances, resides in landfill or, sadly, the natural environment. The study also highlighted that, of the 8.3 billion tonnes manufactured, 6.3 billion have already become waste, and of that waste, only nine per cent was recycled. Nine per cent. The same team of researchers also calculated that, in 2010 alone, an estimated eight million metric tonnes of plastic entered the oceans. This explains why hundreds of marine turtles die every year after becoming entangled in rubbish floating in the oceans and on beaches, like the eponymous plastic six-pack rings that have made images of trapped turtles go viral. It explains why 60 per cent of all seabirds have plastic in their gut. It is a factor that contributes to the desecration of the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs around the world. And if current trends continue, it means roughly 12 billion metric tonnes of plastic waste will be in landfills or the natural environment by 2050. » Aqua had it wrong when they sang ‘life in plastic, it’s fantastic’. There is now mounting research to suggest this harmful man-made material is set to be the next global health epidemic. TIANNA NADALIN writes. HEALTH / ISSUE TEN 10 A CONSCIOUS COLLECTION To put that into perspective, online we use to brush our teeth, the belt we when it is exposed to sun or heat or magazine Thrillist recently calculated use to strap ourselves into our cars, the water, it just keeps breaking down how much the entire island of keyboard at which we spend our days into smaller and smaller fragments Manhattan might weigh and, including typing and the clothes in which we until, eventually, these nanoparticles people, buildings, buses, trains, pets, dress ourselves. Plastic is the product begin to permeate our bodies, too. In food, water and anything else you could of choice for manufacturers globally. fact, when they are exposed to sunlight account for, came to a conservative We are so dependent on its production and start to breakdown, according to a figure of just over 125 million tonnes. By that we barely notice its invasion recent American study, they even emit that logic, we have already buried the of our everyday lives and, given the greenhouse gases methane and ethylene. equivalent of 50 Manhattans. If that’s proliferation of the petrochemical One of the biggest dangers of these not terrifying, we don’t know what is.