Values – vayakora

Environment first. Economy second.

Because without nature, there IS no business.

In 2010, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study estimated that forests worldwide provide us with ecosystems services that equate to US$2–4.5 trillion annually.

“If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.” —E. O. Wilson.

In 2005, the worldwide economic value of the pollination service provided by insect pollinators, bees mainly, was estimated to be €153 billion.

MISSION DIRECTIVE

We believe that biodiversity is the most precious thing in existence.
Nature gives us fresh air, water and food. Nature rejuvenates. Nature inspires.
Nature is life. Therefore nature must be protected.

With that in mind, we design and manufacture all of our products to be as environmentally friendly as humanly possible. Because we know that without the environment, there is no business.

We think a lot about materials. We only use non-toxic, 100% biodegradeable and/or compostable materials in our products. Ecological materials.

We also think a lot about production, too. About the very nature of manufacturing. Indeed, it’s not something that most companies like to talk about. But we are proud to say that we use ecological materials for all of our manufacturing processes, not just for the final products themselves (everything from moulds, release agents, cleaning products, adhesives, and packaging is considered). By doing this, we are literally reinventing ecological design and manufacturing.

Our aim is to make cool products that will benefit not just you but the environment as well. That’s our brand promise.

“The value, and especially the legitimization of design will be, in the future, measured more in terms of how it can enable us to survive —and I don’t think this is an exaggeration— to survive on this planet.”
Dieter RamsIndustrial designer
“A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed.
We are one planet.”
Carl Sagan
“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we’ve elevated the economy above ecology.”
David Suzuki
“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
Edward O WilsonBiologist
“Scientific and technological ‘solutions’ which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.”
E.F. SchumacherEconomist
“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
Carl Sagan
“I can’t imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.”
David Suzuki
“We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.”
Edward O WilsonBiologist
“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.”
E.F. SchumacherEconomist
“The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive – money – to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.”

Paul WatsonActivist
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
Carl Sagan
“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
Edward O WilsonBiologist