REV On Air: Mother Nature As Our Greatest Luxury with Richard Christiansen of Flamingo Estate
This podcast episode is a part of the REV x Zach Bush Farmer’s Footprint Regenerative Podcast Series! Today in the twelfth episode of our regenerative podcast series in collaboration with Farmer’s Footprint, we are speaking to Richard Christiansen, founder of the world-famous Flamingo Estate! Richard shares his upbringing on his parents farm in rural Australia to his migration over to London and consequently New York to become a highly influential luxury brand designer and creative director. In a turn of events, Richard purchases Flamingo Estate in LA and everything takes off from there. Richard’s unique artistic vision applied to farmed produce made for something the world wasn’t yet ready for but fully adopted without question – Mother Nature presented as the high fashion luxury it is in this day and age. Richard’s passion for nature and simplicity combined with his innate drive for design and beauty made for a new way of looking at regenerative farming – a way that appeals to those with consumption at the forefront of their minds. Flamingo Estate now works with a collective of farmers, horticulturists, and herbalists to develop a 150-product portfolio. It sells products including soap, wine, candles, and other essentials for the bath, garden, home and kitchen. All made with natural, regenerative ingredients from small scale organic farms. Merci To Our Sponsors For This Episode! Vivobarefoot Vivobarefoot, is a natural health lifestyle B Corp on a mission to reconnect people into the natural world and human natural potential, from the ground up, foot by foot, person by person. Created by two cousins from a long line of cobblers, Galahad and Asher Clark, Vivobarefoot draws upon simple barefoot design principles: wide, thin and flexible, for optimum foot health and natural movement. Check out the science and start your barefoot journey on VivoHealth, a growing body of courses and experiences guided by natural health experts. On a quest to become a net-positive business for regeneration of human and planetary health, Vivobarefoot also runs ReVivo, the first of its kind secondary market for professionally reconditioned footwear to keep them on feet and away from landfills; and the Livebarefoot Fund, an in-house impact hub catalysing mission-aligned innovation, research and advocacy programs. See the latest Unfinished Business impact report to learn more on what it takes to create a regenerative business. Get 15% off your first Vivobarefoot order with the code ‘REVENVERT15’ at www.vivobarefoot.com EcoCart The average customer lacks access to information that could help them estimate the carbon footprint of the items they purchase, even though 4 out of 5 consumers say climate impact is a factor in who they decide to purchase with. Dane Baker and Peter Twomey recognized this missing information and created EcoCart as a solution. EcoCart has already empowered over 2,000 brands to embark on their climate-positive journey. Their innovative carbon-offsetting tool seamlessly integrates with ecommerce brand’s checkout pages to calculate carbon emissions, and then enables either merchants or shoppers (or both!) to pay to offset those emissions, based on the brand’s budget. EcoCart firmly believes that companies should reduce carbon emissions in addition to offsetting, and also provides brands with insightful Life Cycle Analysis to further enhance their environmental impact. Go to ecocart.io to book a demo and if you hop on a call with EcoCart they’ll cover the cost to offset a day’s worth of carbon emissions from your online store if you mention Rêve En Vert!