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The quokka is our flagship animal to raise awareness about conscious choices. Surely you’ve seen their cute faces pop up on social media – quokka’s have become quite the tourist attraction in Australia. What many don’t know is that they are rapidly declining in number – the species has been listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Their habitats are fragmented, climate change is affecting them, and logging is destroying their homes – factors that destroy much of the planet’s biodiversity! These are problems that need to be addressed, as these animals are not the only ones affected, and we aim to inform about relevant topics on our platform.
We started The Conscious Quokka in 2024 and initially used a membership system: the majority of the website was hidden behind a paywall. However, early 2026 we decided to change this model and remove this paywall. This is because we unfortunately cannot dedicate as much time and effort into the Conscious Quokka anymore compared to before.
Therefore, you can now browse through the Brand Catalog and Knowledge Hub without paying. We hope this encourages you to find sustainable brands and therefore, live a more eco-conscious life!
You can still make a one-time donation, which will help us maintain the platform. Any profit created from this will be used to donate to rotating charities that all strive for a better planet.
You can purchase a membership from anywhere within Europe. On our platform, we focus on brands that are founded and located in Europe. We encourage shopping locally to minimise the environmental footprint if you were to order from them.
Occasionally, we include brands that were founded in other continents, as long as they have distribution centres within Europe. Check out the brand’s page you are interested in to find out more about the distance the items travel.
Our offices are located in the Netherlands.
We include any European brand that describes themselves as sustainable in one way or another, either on their website, through marketing or on their products. Our catalog keeps expanding, as more and more companies want to make a change!
This way, you can decide yourself if you think a brand is really on a sustainability journey or if they are just trying to sell you their product by mentioning words like “green” or “sustainable”.
Actions speak louder than words!
We are an independent business who just wants you, the consumer, to have all the information needed to make a conscious purchase, if any at all. We are not affiliated in any way with the brands that you can find in our catalog: we have spent hours collecting all the information on European brands who call themselves sustainable so you can make an informed decision about your potential purchase.
Please do! We are always happy to hear about new brands and will add them to our list of brands to research. Please fill in our Contact Us form.
Most of the information we publish comes from the brand themselves, articles about the brand (from blogs and/or journalists), and/or we contact the brands directly. Our team digs into the bottom of each brand, reading vigorously through tons of pages of impact reports (when available), and summarises it for you so you don’t have to do the dirty work yourself.
In our Brand Catalog, you can easily browse and compare brands using filters of your choice. These filters include common labels such as location of the shop, and where the brand delivers, but also more specific filters such as whether an item is completely produced within Europe, if they are certified, or if the company offsets carbon emissions. As far as we are aware, no other platform has such specific filters. They help you to easily find brands that align with your priorities!
Moreover, we include brands from all over Europe and have many different categories of products, from toilet paper and washing machines to underwear and phones. We continuously add onto our catalog to make sure there are enough brands for you to explore.
Please let us know! We are always looking to improve our Brand Catalog and we try to be as meticulous as possible but we are only human and we might have made a mistake. You can drop us a message through the Contact Us page and we will fix it ASAP!
Ideally, our Brand Catalog would also be accessible through an application that can easily be accessed by phone. This is a plan for the future, but since we have only just launched (summer 2024), we first have to focus on establishing our company. If things go well, we will invest in building an app!