For the year of 2024, the team here at Fifty Shades Greener have decided to focus our energy and efforts into spotlighting small, community driven sustainability projects from anywhere in the world that are operating on a grass roots level.

The world of sustainability itself can often be perceived as a minefield. From the enormity of the climate crisis, CSRD regulations and measuring carbon emissions, the efforts being made on the field by individuals or groups can often get overshadowed.

However, we always say at FSG, that small actions do count, especially when being carried out by many. This blog series will endeavor to highlight those people or communities who are driving REAL action.

We hope their stories inspire you, and more importantly that they spark hope.

Our fifth story features The Studio, an organisation which produces eithical crafts created by Syrian and Palestinian refugee women in the Shatila camp. 

Their mission is clear: To ignite hope, foster...

In 2015, leaders from 193 different countries agreed on 17 global goals they felt the world needed to achieve by 2030.

The main goals of SDG 16 are to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.

It is of course that today we write this blog with a heavy heart.

Just 6 years away from our target date of the 2030, this goal seems more unachievable than ever.

In 2022, over 108 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide, the war in Ukraine played a role on enhancing this number to 2.5 time higher than a decade ago. With no signs of an end to the Russian invasion, and the added conflict in Palestine and Israel, we are not only failing to improve to achieve this goal, we are actually regressing.  

Wars amongst countries happen for many reasons including economic, territorial, religious, political, civil, revenge, and ideological...