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Revisiting our branding Part 1: Treating symptoms vs. Systemic change

Revisiting our branding Part 1: Treating symptoms vs. Systemic change

As the global fashion supply chains started to unravel in March 2020, many people started questioning the greater systemic issues that led to the c...

Co-creating an Equitable and Just Future with Manpreet Kalra

This season - we’re kicking off a series of features on our site of people we admire - speakers, writers, community leaders, activists, makers, and...

Resilience through Self-Care and Solidarity: Reflections from the tonlé Team

This interview is a collaboration between Faye Lessler and the tonlé team. How can we practice sowing seeds of resilience to help us through this c...

BLACK LIVES MATTER. WHAT WE CAN DO BETTER, AND HOW WE'RE CHANGING - A LETTER FROM OUR FOUNDER

I waited to write a statement last week after the brutal public murder of George Floyd for a couple of reasons – one being that it is more importan...

Seeds of Resilience - May Day 2020

The intention we set as a business at the beginning of this year was to thrive. We wanted to explore, what does it look like when everyone involve...

Tonlé FAQs in the time of Covid-19

Like most of you, we're adapting to a new normal just about every day here at tonlé. Here are some answers to the most pressing and common question...

Resilience, Covid-19, and Sample Sales

photo from our team retreat in Siem Reap in January by Frank Scarfone Dear friends and family – When we set the intention of resilience at the b...

tonlé pay-what-you-can sale event

As we go into 2020 – we’ve been thinking about our pricing and transparency. We’ve seen a few other brands host pay-what-you-can sale events and w...

A Guide to Gifting Thoughtfully and Sustainably from tonlé’s Founder

I love giving gifts! But what I don’t love is knowing a maker may be being exploited or hurt by something I’ve purchased. And I don’t love adding ...

How tonlé is Navigating Sustainability, Ethics, and Business on Black Friday

Thanksgiving is coming up, and along with it comes Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and of course, Christmas. As we approach the holidays this year, we...

Celebrating Halloween Sustainably and Respectfully

Aside from the sudden surge of candy and pumpkin patch Instagram posts, one of the scariest parts about Halloween is its environmental and ethical...

Indigenous Peoples' Day

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, tonlé is initiating a monthly payment of our Shuumi land tax in recognition of the fact that our business oper...

Help us plant 1000+ rainforest trees in Cambodia

Southeast Asia was once covered with approximately 500 million acres of rain forest, but only about 5 percent remains. One fifth of those remaining...