Plant Alchemy & Renewal

It brings together practical repair methods, creative transformations, plant‑based dyeing, and material‑level analysis that exposes the hidden chemistry and design choices shaping durability. Each post turns maintenance, rework, and botanical colour into acts of resistance against overproduction, fossil‑fuel dependency, and the fast‑fashion discard cycle.

“Bringing My Mules Back to Life: A Sole Repair Story”

We talk about “the most sustainable sole” as if there were a single path forward, a perfect material waiting to be crowned. But the truth is more intricate. Every sole carries a story shaped by land use, carbon intensity, durability, recyclability, and what happens at the very end of its life. The leaders emerging today aren’t flawless; they are experiments in responsibility, each offering a different kind of promise. Bio‑based foams that return to soil, recycled rubbers that

Marina Moore

Jan 293 min read

The Earth Is One, But The World Is Not

Plant Alchemy & Renewal

“Bringing My Mules Back to Life: A Sole Repair Story”