By Isabelle Brigout on Thursday 3 March 2022, 06:18 - Ethical shopping
Upcircle makes cosmetics from by-products of the food industry: coffee grounds, fruit stones, peels or date seeds include active principles that are beneficial for the skin and can be repurposed into creams, serum and scrubs.
By Isabelle Brigout on Thursday 3 February 2022, 06:02 - Concierge
For its 250th birthday, Veuve Clicquot offers a journey from Reims in France to Venice in Italy on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express including a Champagne dinner onboard, as La Serenissima was the first destination where bottles were exported abroad in 1772.
By Isabelle Brigout on Monday 31 January 2022, 06:37 - Concierge
Sky Lagoon is located along a lagoon where water is naturally heated: the open-sky bath is offered in the lagoon and the energy needed to heat the building is from renewable origin.
By Isabelle Brigout on Thursday 6 January 2022, 06:01 - Conversation
Nathalie Bastianelli has been living in China for several years: today she publishes a book Quand la Chine s'éveille verte (When China goes green) where she presents a country in transition, who has made the shift to sustainable development for several years, with a speed only it holds the secret of.
By Isabelle Brigout on Monday 3 January 2022, 05:26 - Green hotels
The atoll of Laamu, on which is settled the Six Senses resort has been declared Hope Spot by Mission Blue, founded by the American oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle. The international non-profit organization aims to help to the protection of at least 30% of the surface of the oceans by 2030, whereas it was only 1% in 2009.
By Isabelle Brigout on Monday 13 December 2021, 06:11 - Organic food
For the festive season, Ruinart offers twenty magnum bottles of Champagne in a limited and numbered edition, whose second skin packagings have been sculpted by the artist Antonin Anzil. Each piece depicts a part of the historic vineyard that has just been converted to agroforestry.
By Isabelle Brigout on Thursday 9 December 2021, 05:34 - Ethical shopping
After a trip in the Arctic, Capucine Huguet has created a jewellery collection inspired by the shapes of the glaciers, the crevasses, the erosion and the ice melting process. Raw materials are recycled 18 carat gold and 925 Silver. Every piece is handmade.
