Veja is an ethical footwear brand born in 2005. Co-founded by school friends Sébastien Kopp and François Ghislain Morillion, its goal is to create trainers that are ecologically conscious and fairly produced.

Did you know that three-quarters of UK children spend less time outdoors than prison inmates? Get Out are a new charity that offers environmental education and outdoor adventure for free to the children of Tower Hamlets – the area with the highest rates of child poverty in the UK.

I just did a calculation that made me feel so sick. I added up the number of flights and air miles I’ve accumulated in the past year to determine my carbon footprint. On my last trip to Brazil alone, to research an ethical clothing manufacturer, I racked up eight flights in eight days, totalling more than 17,000 miles. I’m supposed to be a sustainability blogger – talk about irony.

I finally get to share my TEDx talk with you. It’s about the power of social media to organise and promote environmental activism but in it, I also manage to wave my mooncup around on stage, throw a tampon applicator at someone and say ‘poo’ three times.

Artificial waves have been around for more than 30 years, but commercially sustainable facilities still elude the industry and remain surfing’s Holy Grail: an environmentally friendly everlasting wave for an endless summer. Kelly Slater’s high-performance Surf Ranch is the latest and arguably greatest attempt to achieve this.