ReNewy Living  Celebrates Local Sustainability

Feeling Overwhelmed by Global Challenges?

We know it can feel overwhelming to live in a way that’s good for people and planet. With so many global environmental challenges, the power of big corporations, and slow-moving systems change, it’s hard to see where you can have the most impact. It can feel like your choices are a drop in the ocean. And  that’s when many people give up trying.

The Hidden Price of Doing Nothing

But when we do nothing or wait for someone else to act, we risk losing more than we realise.  Local businesses struggle, communities suffer, and big business decision-makers tighten their grip on the way we live. The opportunity to create a better future for our neighbourhoods, our communities and our planet slips away.

Making Sustainability Second Nature

That’s why ReNewy Living focuses on what is within reach: local action. We connect eco-minded people with the projects, places, and communities that are already making a difference. Starting in regional communities across Australia, we help turn concern into visible, meaningful change to make sustainability second nature. So your choices shape a stronger, more sustainable future for the people and places you love.

ReNewy Living celebrates local sustainability.

We help you take action through stories of people, places, and projects from regional communities across Australia who are doing good for people and planet.

ReNewy Living is a social enterprise…

Get Started with ReNewy Living

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About Mardi

Mardi Lee believes sustainable living is about embracing imperfection, creativity and doing what’s right for you at the time.

As the founder of ReNewy Living, an environmentally focused social enterprise, she helps people celebrate local sustainability through storytelling. Because, living well on this planet starts with us in our communities. Her work encourages people to prioritise reduce & reuse and to rethink the way they live.

Mardi has always valued resourcefulness and staying connected to nature. She draws on her experience as a teacher, mother and keen observer of social change to make sustainability real. Her relatable storytelling makes sustainability feel both meaningful and do-able.

She’s confident that when people care for one another and the places they call home, communities thrive and sustainability becomes second nature.

Let’s talk about how your sustainability initiatives and projects can make a bigger local impact. Reach out to Mardi here to get started…

Values

Behind everything we do are these values…

Community


We believe in the power of connection and belonging. When people feel they belong to place and connected to each other with a shared purpose, change becomes collective, meaningful, and lasting.

Stewardship


We care for and protect the natural environment, recognising its deep connection to the wellbeing of our communities.

Everyday Action


We keep sustainability simple, flexible, and achievable so it fits into everyday life, becomes second nature, and creates lasting impact.

ReNewy Living is a Social Enterprise

This means we are committed to people & planet and exist to make the world a better place.

Member of the Social Enterprise Council of NSW - SECNA
Good Market Approved

ReNewy Living is well on the way to becoming a verified social enterprise through People and Planet First. This is how ReNewy Living meets the 5 standards of verification:-

Purpose

We exist to solve a social and environmental problem.

  • We help people who feel overwhelmed by global problems to find hope and impact through local action.
  • Therefore, our purpose is to celebrate local sustainability. We do this by helping you take action by sharing the real stories of people, places and projects from regional communities across Australia who are doing good for people and planet.

Operations

We prioritise purpose, people and planet over profit.

  • We are a for-profit and for-purpose business.
  • Impact is being made, with informative and meaningful impact reports to follow. It’s about gathering the right data for the right reasons.
  • We are Good Market Approved, which is the global platform for social enterprise.

Revenue

As a for-profit, for-purpose business we have a self-sustaining business model

Use of Surplus

We redistribute 50% of our net profit towards our purpose. We do this through either low cost or pro bono work. This includes helping:

  • primary and high schools hold an environmentally-based fundraiser such as a clothes swap
  • NSW Government funded public schools with environmentally-based workshops, environmental leadership opportunities, podcasting etc
  • micro and small business embed sustainability initiatives and copywriting into their every day practice and procurement
  • community-led, non-for-profit groups with facilitating environmentally-based workshops for greater engagement and traction

Structure

ReNewy Living is an Australian sole trader business. A Constitution is not legally needed, however as a social enterprise ReNewy Living is committed to demonstrating how to lock-in our purpose. We will continue to support public benefit each year.

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As Featured In…

ABC Radio Newcastle

Tips for shopping for preloved gifts from the op shops…

Listen here…

11th December 2024 (ABC Radio Newcastle Breakfast)

Practical Permaculture

Episode 70 Values Aligned Sustainability | Mindful Consumption

Sharing my journey into sustainability, exploring the importance of community empowerment, creative workshops and the principles of permaculture in daily life.

Available on Apple Podcasts, and Spotify podcasts

November 2024

Pod like a Pro

New to podcasting, I talk about how I learned to find my voice and style in podcasting…

Listen on Spotify podcasts here…

Listen on Apple podcasts here…

11th September 2024

ABC Radio Newcastle

How a chocolate wrapper from 1998 points to a bigger plastic problem. Mardi shares what she thinks this vintage wrapper reveals about our modern waste problem.

Listen here…

21st August 2023 (ABC Newcastle Breakfast)

Creativity: Uncovered

Mardi chats about the link between creativity & sustainability, including op shopping, resourcefulness, mindset and how important it is for all of us to embed creativity into our everyday.

June 2023 (Apple Podcasts and Spotify podcasts)

ABC Radio Newcastle

Mardi shares her personal stories and insights into gifting more mindfully to help us simplify Christmas with family and friends.

13th December 2022 (ABC Newcastle Breakfast)

The Newcastle Herald

Mardi shares how her eco-friendly bon bons evolved to support other small businesses and make our Christmas table feel and sound like Christmas!

Saturday 3rd December 2022

Read article here...

ABC Newcastle

In recognition of Buy Nothing New Month, Mardi shares two reasons why she’s passionate about buying nothing and how being a part of the Buy Nothing Project facebook group supports buying nothing every day.

October 2022 (ABC Newcastle Breakfast)

Listen here...

Living Smart Podcast (Lake Macquarie City Council)

Listen in to Mardi’s stories about “Getting Creative with Rubbish” and how resourceful we can be with waste and marine debris.

Search ‘Living Smart Lake Macquarie’ wherever you get your podcasts, or listen on Spotify podcasts here…

September 2021

Listen here on Spotify Podcasts...

The Newcastle Herald

Highlighting the benefits of more eco-friendly, low tox, green cleaning for A Spick and Span House and Planet.

March 2020

Read article here...

Proud Member of the Social Enterprise Council of NSW

Member of the Social Enterprise Council of NSW - SECNA