The Next Step in Sustainable Fashion

Founded in 2015, Flamingo’s Life is a company based in Elche, Spain that checks all of the boxes of sustainability. They are an animal-free corporation in the business to save the planet. Flamingo’s Life has 6 major projects involving these topics: craftsmanship, materials, transparency, water, reforestation, and oceans. You can learn in-depth about each of these projects on their website, flamingoslife.com.
Each collection is associated with one of these projects, which balances their impact and improves the lives of vulnerable beings. A purchase of a pair of Classic 70’s plants five trees in deforested areas in collaboration with the NGO “Eden Reforestation Projects.”

Sailing Seas of Plastic by dumpark

This week’s featured project allows us to see where our trash actually goes. And it’s kinda scary… Sailing seas of plastic is an interactive data viz tool created by dumpark. It uses date from 24 recent sailing expeditions to estimate a total mass of floating debris in our oceans. It might make you think twice about the waste your household produces and, dare we say, convince you to do something about it!

Let’s Talk Toxic Paint

This week’s initiative turns existing pollution from acid mine drainage into pigment for oil paints. It’s led by artist John Sabraw, and Ohio University Civil Engineering Professor Dr. Guy Riefler. Sabraw recounts, “As we toured southeastern Ohio, I was struck by local streams that are not only devoid of aquatic life, but are orange, red and brown, as if from a mudslide upstream…The colors were mainly from iron oxide—the same raw material used to make many paint colors…I thought it would be fantastic to use this toxic flow to make paintings.” In 2018, John started a Kickstarter that has accrued 488 backers that have pledged over $33k, which surpassed his goal of $30k. In 2019, True Pigments, LLC, a social enterprise of Rural Action, was born. The enterprise bought the largest acid mine drainage seep in Ohio and opened a full-scale production facility that extracts iron oxide from the rivers. Eventually, Gamblin Artist Colors came on board to help produce a limited run of the paints called Reclaimed Earth Colors. As
of June 2021, Gamblin says that the paints are still in production and the collaboration will continue. To get the paints, visit Gamblin’s online store or other retailers. 20% of sales go right back to the cause.

Welcome to Restless

We’re glad you’re on this journey with us. We take ourselves lightly and our sustainability initiatives seriously. We launched our website in 2023, and the following year, released our first limited-edition magazine. Since then, we’ve been hustling and gathering sustainable designs to expand our showcase, working on the next edition of the magazine, and some other top-secret projects.