Hello, we’re a sustainability agency.
We help big business improve their sustainability and CSR strategies. We help NGOs and Government create social change. We help green companies take products mainstream. We help food and sports brands find new ways to promote healthy eating and get the kids off the couch. In short, we work with anyone whose business has the potential to make a positive impact on the world and wants to receive positive feedback for doing so. We don’t do Greenwash.
Yes, we’re do-good. But we’re business too. We know that companies exist to turn a profit. So, if we can create ways to make money and improve things along the way, soon everyone will be doing it.
We offer strategic, creative and planning services. We also employ the know-how scientists, management consultants and activists, because their skills are essential in this space.
What we learn working with NGOs we apply to big business, helping them do the right thing and be loved for it. What we learn working with big business we apply to NGOs, helping them employ the same discipline and business acumen as the top end of town.
We favour real world ideas over advertising and social media over paid. People simply trust them more.
We have curated art galleries and published books. Our work has been featured worldwide, from the catwalks of NY Fashion Week to the Halls of British Parliament. We have won numerous communications and green awards for our efforts.
We work individually or collaboratively. Our friends include LOHAS researchers Mobium, UK sustainability agency Futerra and environmental consultants TDA..
The biggest company we have worked with is Toyota. They have over 265,000 employees. The smallest is Eco Depot. They have two. Chances are your business fits somewhere in the middle.
If you’d like to know more, or simply talk about interesting ideas and coming up with a more exciting word for sustainability, please drop us a line or two.
Greenwash Buster
New for Winter ‘09! You send us your proposed creative and we give you a combined legal and communications opinion on how to deliver a strong, green message without attracting a fine from the ACCC.
See who we work with
Every great agency has a page showing their client’s logos. This is that page. It includes green and fair trade brands, NGOs and everyday companies who want to leave the world better than they found it.
Read a Republication
Republications is our collection of writings, documents and collected intelligence that helps make head and tails of green, ethical and sustainability and explains how we can use both the old tools of mainstream media and new tools of online media to spread the word and grow better business. Includes our Greenwash Manual, WTFISustainability and lots more.
Meet the team
It’s not everyday you get a scientist sitting next to a designer or educator alongside media planner. Our team mixes sustainability with communications experts and somehow they seem to just get along. So we fix that by throwing even more people in the mix. We’ve worked with artists, musicians, architects and the odd movie star to deliver ideas that make sustainability real, interesting and accessible.
Visit our forest
That’s right, our own forest. 15,000 indigenous trees, planted in partnership with Landcare, sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere and offsetting a lot more emissions than we can create in a year. It’s a business, a regeneration project and a place for weary Republicans to hang their hammocks.
A spot of history
The Republic began in 2006 as loose collection of like minded folk who wanted to use their skills to build a better planet. A couple of years and a half a dozen successful projects later this collective became a company and we declared ourselves a Republic where everyone is still welcome to join in.
Why the strange name?
Our name is based on the idea that we’re all in this together and that everything we do affects everyone around us. Our logo is a visualisation of the Thai concept of ‘Jai Yen’, meaning good heart. We like to think it means putting positivity at the heart of everything we do.
A big thanks goes out to the people who make their photos available under a Creative Commons license on Flickr. Here’s credit where it’s due for the pix above: Hand on Bridge, Cat with Books, Talking Toast, Old School Photo. And here’s credit for the photos on our People Page: Matt’s photo, Ben’s photo, other Ben’s photo.
