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Good stories | Good people | Good business

A magazine for and about ethical entrepreneurs, innovation and sustainability.

31/01/2025

In issue 21 of Ethos, we asked Marten Lewis, Director of Sustainability at Bluestone National Park Resort, what his ethos is. This is what he said…

“To use my privileged position, knowledge and empathy, to share and learn; to bring as much value and positive change today, and for future generations.” 🤝

📢 Say it louder for those in the back! Because that’s an ethos worth embodying worldwide.

You can read all about positive changes and bringing back abundance as part of our Long Read on page 82 in our latest issue of Ethos!

Grab your copy here: https://ethos-magazine.com/shop/

29/01/2025

Meet: John Meadowcroft, writer for Ethos! 🙋‍♂️

“John is a freelance writer and digital-media type currently living on the Wirral. And he's quite insistent that it's 'the Wirral', not 'Wirral', despite what some people might say. He's also not as bland as that sentence makes him out to be…”

John wrote several features for Ethos 21, including The Big Idea (Essential Homes), Ethos Meets: M.N. Rosen, This Month We're Thinking About and How to: Improve a City.

Grab yourself a copy to find John and his writerly wonderfulness here 😍👉 https://ethos-magazine.com/shop/

27/01/2025

For our weekly countdown of Ethos’ best read site stories of 2024, here is our 8th place story…

👉 Braille Neue👏📒

“We all know that Braille exists but many of us don’t know what it says – so we’re introducing Braille Neue. Braille Neue is a universal typeface that combines Braille with existing characters, created by Japanese designer, Kosuke Takahashi.”

This story was our Design for a Better World feature in issue 16, and is truly an incredible design that would better the world for many.

You can find out more by grabbing a copy of Ethos 16, or reading the story on our site: https://ethos-magazine.com/braille-neue/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Post&utm_campaign=DFABW+Braille+Neue

23/01/2025

Continuing our weekly countdown of Ethos’ best read site stories of 2024 is our 9th place story…

24 Hours in Lima 🤎☕

“Mark Russell takes us on a whistle-stop tour of Lima, home of his Peruvian family.” From coffee to archaeology, this Ethos 17 feature unearths some of traditional gems and avant garde experiences for a whistle-stop, Espresso-shot tour of his family’s town in Peru.

👉 Grab yourself a copy of Ethos 17, or find more of Mark’s recommendations in the story on our site: https://ethos-magazine.com/24-hours-in-lima/?utm_source=Ethos+Top+10+Stories+Socials+Jan+2025&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=Post

22/01/2025

Meet Holly Carter, graphic designer for Ethos!🙋‍♀️

“Holly is a graphic designer with a focus on translating positive and impactful narratives into compelling and beautiful visual statements. A freelancer who has worked within the charity sector, with independent businesses, design and creative studios, across the world, Holly is known for bringing values, beliefs and visions to life.”

Holly designed several spreads within Ethos 21, including Short Bits and Design for a Better World with Caper Illustrations, in which she also interviewed them and wrote the feature - read here: https://ethos-magazine.com/design-for-a-better-world-eastern-promise/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Post&utm_campaign=DFABW+Eastern+Promise

Grab yourself a copy (using the links in our bio) to find Holly and her unending talents ☝️😍

(And keep your eyes peeled for what she’s working on in our next issue of Ethos – coming soon!) 👀

21/01/2025

In issue 21 of Ethos, we asked Bhagya Barrett, creative director and founder of Rebel City Distillery in Cork, “what’s your ethos?”.

✨ “Spirits bound by alchemy and artistry. And doing things right and mindfully.”✨

What a corker! Now that’s certainly an ethos we wouldn’t rebel against 😏

You can read all about Rebel City on page 32 in our latest issue of Ethos! Grab your copy here: https://ethos-magazine.com/shop/

17/01/2025

Nope, this post isn’t sponsored by a Back to The Future remake (though we’re certainly not discouraging one!), but it IS an ode to the role a flux might play on a circuit board; making it easier for information to flow 💡

Andrew Beattie talks about what it means to be a human flux in our “In Other Words” feature of Ethos 21, acting as the intersection between a lazy river and a jet stream when it comes to helping information pass between colleagues, businesses, and all fellow human beings in an easier, efficient manner.

“Being the flux is how I make things better.”

You can find out more about what it means to be a flux by grabbing a copy of Ethos 21 here: https://ethos-magazine.com/shop/

And remember: being a flux is a flex 💪

15/01/2025

We asked the courageous Gaelic fairy queen’s eponymous whiskey distilling counterpart, Nc'nean Distillery and its equally fearless founder, Annabel Thomas (as featured in the Cover Story of Ethos 21) what their ethos was. And this is what she said:

“Live well but leave the planet in a better state than you found it. And for me, living well is about food, drink, travel, loved ones.” 🌎💙

Now that’s an ethos we can drink to. Let’s raise a glass to that!🥂

You can read all about Nc’Nean in our latest issue of Ethos and here: https://ethos-magazine.com/the-queen-of-spirits/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Post&utm_campaign=The+Queen+of+Spirits+Ethos+Issue+21

14/01/2025

We mentioned last week that we’d be sharing a round-up of the most read stories from our site in 2024, and this week we begin with our 10th place story…

🎉 How to: Improve a City 🏙️

Written by our very own John Meadowcroft, interviewing Jeroen Beekmans and the team at Pop-Up City about all things city improvement, this story featured in our latest issue of Ethos!

“Amsterdam-based agency Pop-Up City specialises in urban planning with a difference. Change, they believe, is the only constant in cities across the world today.”

👉 Grab yourself a copy of Ethos 21 or read more on how we all can start improving our own urban environments here: https://ethos-magazine.com/how-to-improve-a-city/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Post&utm_campaign=Ethos+21+-+How+to+Improve+a+City

10/01/2025

Remember our “The Hundred Year Books” feature in Ethos 21? 📚

Sharing the story of the Norwegian forest that’s growing a library for one hundred books – written by a different author each year – to be published on pages made from its very trees in the year 2114? 🌲

You know, the Future Library project based in , born from the mind of artist Katie Paterson? (If you don’t, grab yourself a copy of Ethos 21.) 🤯

You do! Super! Then you’re going to love this: you can find Katie and Anne Beate Hovind, Chair of the Future Library Trust, on the Curious Neighbours podcast, where they celebrate 10 years of Future Library’s century long endeavour.

It’s a great listen about their great future reads. You don’t want to miss it 🎧

Listen here: https://linktr.ee/curiousneighbours?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabiBD6Y7mZQTVyebsmrFExXkCqmzcyG0FzOAGs03mbdU17F1aWNWkUyMQ8_aem_aQkzFGgLzH8Sv0Wuu97scg

09/01/2025

We’ve waited until now to talk about the infamous intentions that emerge from beneath torn up wrapping paper and saunter into the spotlight when the clock strikes midnight – you know; your New Year’s resolutions – because the first week of January is too busy being *meh*.

You're finishing off Christmas snacks. Taking down the deccies. Sulking about the impending first day back at work. Nobody should be expected to stick to their existing routines during that stagnant period, let alone create new ones. Not until the second week AT LEAST.

But now it’s begun, and so have many of your resolutions – don’t worry, we’re not going to ask if you’ve been sticking to them. We just wanted to show you ours.

Here at Ethos, our New Year’s resolutions are ones we endeavour to achieve, year round. They’re not just intentions; they’re our ethos entirely.

🌍 Do a little good for the world in any number of small ways.

📖 Continue to share stories of good businesses, locally and globally.

💬 Talk openly about what matters.

😅 Don’t sweat the small stuff – embrace it.

🫂 Build a community of like minded beings.

💓 Remind ourselves why (why we do what we do, why we love it, why it’s important).

📚 Read a chapter of Ethos before bed.

Please let us know if there’s anything you think is missing from the list. And feel free to share with us what your intentions for the year are down below 👇

Because hey, it’s 2025. The year to thrive: https://ethos-magazine.com/

08/01/2025

Welcome 2025! And welcome back fellow Ethos readers, followers, observers, friends, comrades and other coexisting creatures of all kinds👋

The new year is… not so new, now. We’re already over a week into January, the remnants of 2024 left in the half eaten boxes of mince pies shoved to the back of the cupboard, and the crossed out dates in our diaries as we struggle to remember to write 2025 instead 🙃 clearly we’re not ready to let go of 2024 just yet…

Which is why, beginning next week, we’ll be sharing our Top 10 Ethos Most-Read of 2024 (stories from our site!) with you weekly 📚 as our way of reflecting, reminiscing and raising a glass to some of ours – and your – favourite reads from last year.

👀 So keep your eyes peeled and your social media open (or head to our site if you fancy fitting in some Ethos reading today): https://ethos-magazine.com/

31/12/2024

Happy New Year from Ethos to you! May this be a year threaded with adventure, stitched with curiosity, woven with memories worth writing about. And who knows; maybe for our next issue we’ll be writing about them, too 🤷‍♀️

So welcome 2025, to a planet full of good people and good businesses doing SPECTACULAR things. You’re gonna love it.

Until then, this is Ethos, signing off for 2024. *Hat tilts at the calendar.* Thank you for everything. It’s been one we’ll never forget. Here’s to the next🥂

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27/12/2024

With two magazines out this year – Ethos 20 and Ethos 21 – we’ve uncovered the ethoses of a great many marvellous people. Brands and businesses, projects and products, individuals and entire communities all dedicated to a similar cause:

🌎 Doing a little good for the world. That ethos happens to be ours, too 🌎

But with a new year teetering on the horizon comes the opportunity to find new purposes, adopt new habits, embody new beliefs. 2024 is shedding its skin so that the next year can awaken and begin. And as it blinks, sleepy-eyed, into existence, we’re wondering:

🤷‍♀️ What’s your Ethos for 2025? 🤔

Your purpose. Your why. Your stars beyond the sky. The thing that will propel you through the months of this brand new beginning. Let us know in the comments below!👇

24/12/2024

The good tidings have been brought. The figgy pudding is on its way. So all that is left, is for Ethos to say:

🎄🎄 MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL🎄🎄

To you Ethos readers, you Green Swaps achievers, you bright and better future believers. To you eco-elves and sustainability Santas. To the reindeers with the green noses and the snowmen made from reclaimed water. To all you festive folk, alike. We adore each of you Christmassively. You are the Nice List, incarnate. May Santa bring you the stars.

Speaking of, don’t forget to leave a copy of Ethos 21 beside his sherry when he shimmies down the chimney! He deserves a gift too 👉 https://ethos-magazine.com/product/ethos-21/

We hope your Christmas is the merriest yet!

19/12/2024

Last week we started sharing the ethos’ of our Ethos contributors. This week, we’re making that a tradition. Here’s the ethos of Future Library’s very own Anne Beate Hovind, chair of the Future Library Trust, who featured on page 76 of Ethos 21. Anne, what’s your ethos?

“It’s creating hope and it’s a choice I make and I decided to make every day to creative practical utopias. I think I totally believe that if we all do that, we can make big changes.”

You can read more about the Future Library – an artwork and ode to both nature and reading, created by Katie Paterson, in which a Norwegian forest is growing a library of 100 books that will be published a century from now – in our Ethos 21 “The hundred year books” feature.

Grab your copy here 👉 https://ethos-magazine.com/product/ethos-21/

18/12/2024

🚜 “You can’t plough a field simply by turning it over in your mind,” said Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader.

🌱 “Nature is fuel for the soul. Often, when we feel depleted we reach for a cup of coffee, but research suggests a better way to get energised is to connect with nature.” said Richard Ryan, a psychology professor at The University of Rochester.

🧠 “When your body is busy, your mind is distracted,” said Fiona Shaw, founder of Ethos and writer of our ‘Ethos on: health and wellbeing’ feature in our current issue.

📖 So grab yourself a copy to find out more about the relationship between movement, nature, physical health and mental wellbeing. Backed by science, backed by Mother Nature, backed by us.

🍃 https://ethos-magazine.com/product/ethos-21/ 🤸‍♀️

17/12/2024

Did you know that in 2018, for the first time ever, the number of people over 65 was higher than the number of children under 5? And this gap is widening. By the year 2030, the number of people aged 60 and above will rise globally to 1.4 billion 🤯🤯

🌝 This is the era of the sexagenarians to the centenarians. You know, those old enough to remember the first moon landing.

Which is why, in our latest issue of Ethos, columnist Luca Sabia talks all things silver marketing; with businesses missing a key demographic when they fail to adjust their marketing tactics to an older audience🤦‍♂️

After all, silver foxes are worth their weight in gold 🩶

Grab yourself a copy to find out more about these venerable generations here 👉 https://ethos-magazine.com/product/ethos-21/

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Happy New Year from Ethos to you! May this be a year threaded with adventure, stitched with curiosity, woven with memories worth writing about. And who knows; maybe for our next issue we’ll be writing about them, too 🤷‍♀️ So welcome 2025, to a planet full of good people and good businesses doing SPECTACULAR things. You’re gonna love it. Until then, this is Ethos, signing off for 2024. *Hat tilts at the calendar.* Thank you for everything. It’s been one we’ll never forget. Here’s to the next🥂 https://ethos-magazine.com/