cinder + salt | the salty life

Since the founding of cinder + salt in 2014, I've been interested in turning our printshop waste into sculptures of coral reefs. I can’t tell you why it’s been a fixation of mine, but it has, and the concept has finally come full circle with our donation of three mobile, 100% upcycled coral reef sculptures to The Maritime Aquarium in June 2023, in celebration of World Oceans Day.   It all began with the Lorax. As a young child flipping through the book I was enamored by the Truffula Trees. I wanted to live amongst the swommee swans and brown...

It seems like most people have a defining event or moment that jumpstarted their path to living more sustainably. Each of the team members at cinder + salt has a different story about how their eco-journey started and how it's going! Our Retail Operations Manager, Sara, started building a capsule wardrobe and buying with intention and purpose. She also started looking for clothes made from recycled materials. Her favorite sneakers are made from plastic collected off beaches. Rachel, our owner and creative director, has a jungle in her home and wanted a sustainable way to water the jungle. She keeps a pitcher by the sink to collect...

With Earth Month right around the corner, we wanted to re-share these 52 ways to celebrate Earth Day every day. Bonus: they are 100% FREE! Beginner Level (no shame) Go outside. Literally just spend 1 minute outdoors with your eyes closed and smell the air, feel the sun and hear the birds.  Identify some things in your life that you know are wasteful & leave the list somewhere you’ll see it often. This will be a gentle reminder to yourself to create less waste. Subscribe to an eco-friendly lifestyle newsletter or podcast. There are hundreds; take your pick! Follow an eco-account on social media so that...

The problem with climate change is that it’s too big of a problem. For real though! With so much bad news about how much we have lost, how difficult (re impossible) it will be to reverse the damage we’ve caused & how futile it is to actively mitigate further Earthly woes, it’s no wonder people feel so defeated by those two words. That’s precisely why cinder + salt is focused on eco-optimism AND providing opportunities to engage with Earth. There’s so much bad news that people are, simply put, checked out. They don’t feel like their actions will have any...