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Essential Oils: The Essence of Clean and Well-being
The early Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau somewhat inspire our philosophy at Koala Eco. Followers of this movement believed immersion in the sights, sounds and smells...
Ecopsychology Insights & Community Reflections
The Farms Where Attention Becomes Practice
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”— Mary Oliver To grow plants for their essence is to enter into a long conversation with timing — with...
A Nanosecond in the Cosmos
I like to go back to this idea about the capacity of nature to inspire awe. It's a reminder that while we are connected to...
The Intelligence of Slowness
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson A growing body of research in environmental psychology suggests that natural time helps...
Volume 12: Spill The Tea
By Rachel Johnson, interviewing Jessica Bragdon Jessica is the co-founder of Koala Eco, the family-owned brand behind the plant-based products many of our customers use...
Micro-restoration
“Life is made up of small things. Small things that matter.”— Joan Didion. Clinical ecopsychology describes something called micro-restoration: small, frequent interactions with natural elements...
The Architecture of Care
A Mother’s Day reflection There are forms of work that leave no visible trace. They don’t accumulate in obvious ways. They rarely announce themselves and...
On Scent, Memory, and Invisible Landscapes
“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”— Vladimir Nabokov Of all the senses, smell has the most...
Intelligence and the Living World - Earth Day 2026
Every Earth Day invites the same quiet question: what does progress actually mean? This year, the question feels sharper. Artificial intelligence is advancing quickly, reshaping...
The Old Memory of Belonging
Modern life has made many things efficient. It has not made us feel more placed.Psychologists now speak of “nature connectedness” as a measurable trait —...
