This week on Unsustainable we talk to Rachel Hoover, REYN’s master fermenter and a native Alaskan. Every year, Rachel, alongside her family and friends, harvests wild rose hips by hand from the mountains outside Cordova, Alaska. She then ferments her bounty using her intuitive and generational knowledge, resulting in beneficial enzymes, vitamins, and amino acids with transformative skin benefits.In this episode, we talk about sustainability in one of the last truly wild and untouched parts of this world, the fine line between living off the land and stealing from the land, and the impact that environmental and socio-economic sustainability has had on Rachel and other native Alaskan women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

From Mothership Materials, this is Unsustainable: a podcast about the flawed systems in the beauty industry and a guide to building a better business model by the people who are actually doing it. For our first episode, we’re going to hear from REYN and Mothership co-founder Jo Marini on the business she had to build in order to create a truly equitable, sustainable, and social purpose-driven beauty brand. In addition to her work with REYN and Mothership, she’s also a sustainability professor at California College of the Art’s Design MBA, teaching systems-level design to the future impact business innovators. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.