Briefing with Volunteers

8 & 13 Dec 2022

Our online briefings were held via Zoom over 2 sessions.

Thank you for the overwhelming response to our call for volunteers! We were more than 2x oversubscribed and our volunteer recruitment is now closed.

TRIA Digester Visit & Desk Research Sharing

11 Feb 2023

On 11 February, our volunteers had the opportunity to witness TRIA’s proprietary digester in action! It was fascinating to see and understand the thinking behind behind a closed-loop process. Thank you TRIA for taking us through a tour of the digester!

The volunteers then shared their insights from their desk research, approaching sustainability through multiple angles!

Curious insights sprouted from the sharings such as:

• Defining the sustainability of Multinational apparel organisations versus boutique apparel stores
• Target audiences being motivated by the identity of ‘wokeness’ rather than sustainability itself
• Companies keeping their environmental efforts unspoken (greenhushing) to avoid scrutiny and being labelled as greenwashing
• Men avoiding sustainable goods because they seem ‘feminine’
• Self-sufficiency as a cultural value holding back ‘greater good’ approaches to sustainability

The insights shared broadened perspectives on how they might curate their interview questions, better equipping them to approach the upcoming interviews and house visits.

It was a fascinating experience of understanding sustainability deeper, broadened perspectives of what sustainability could look like, and growing as one volunteer cohort.