Better Circles

For our first recording in the new Into Carry space in Brunswick, we sit down with Lucan Creamer and Lorraine Tighe of No Offence Wines.
Together, they’re building a bridge between winemakers and venues, serving great wines on tap, saving time, reducing waste and creating a circular solution for wine packaging and distribution. We talk about the startup rollercoaster, why it’s so helpful to have someone on the journey with you, and dream up what a No Offence wine and sandwich bar would be like.
Join the Better Circles conversation at instagram.com/bettercircles.co, come along to one of our monthly, in-person impact mornings at Into Carry Brunswick, or join our new Better Circles book club in East Brunswick. Latest details for all the community events are at bettercircles.podbean.com.
 

For this episode of Better Circles, Luke and Fi head south to Oakleigh to visit The Corner Store Network. We talk to founders and siblings Alice and Jake Mahar about why coffee is seriously undervalued, how they turn setbacks into opportunities to create jobs, and how their ‘hippy’ parents have shaped the way they run this amazing social enterprise.
 
 

Welcome back, for Season 2 of Better Circles - now also in video format, so if that's your thing, head over to youtube.com/@BetterCircles
In our first episode of 2026 (though we recorded it in late 2025), Luke and Fi chat about some big changes happening at Into, as well as Fi's new column in Renew magazine, Luke's experiments transforming marathon trash into plogging bags, and we get into what's making us feel hopeful, existential, and connected… sometimes all at once.  
If you want to follow up on things we talked about, here are some handy links:
Into wins a Good Design Award in the Social Impact category: https://good-design.org/projects/__trashed-20/
Rutger Bregman's book Moral Ambition: https://rutgerbregman.com/
Fi's Renew magazine column: https://renew.org.au/
Luke's plogging bag experiment: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQvyGXDACw_/ 
And if you're in or near Collingwood, Victoria, on 9 Feb 2026, come to Into to support Luke's fundraising for the Bob Brown Foundation Takayna run: https://takayna.org/screening/into-carry-screening-collingwood/

Kunal’s the Compost (and Kombucha) King of a permaculture farm in India; co-founder and director of All Living Things Environmental Film Festival (ALT-EFF), the largest decentralised film festival in the world; and a service designer tackling waste systems in Melbourne… and that’s not everything!
Much like a screening of ALT-EFF, this chat left Fi and Luke inspired, energised and ready to take action, and we hope you feel the same way.
We also promised a fact check for this episode. Kunal mentions an often-quoted statistic that to make a movement into a wide-spread transformation only requires 5% of the population to be on board: that a “critical mass” of people is much smaller than we think it is.
We went looking for references, and we couldn’t find any studies that magical 5% backed up by research but here’s what we did find:
Research on the impact of non-violent protests by Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D, found that only 3.5% of a population needs to take part in non-violent protest to create social change: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
And research on social tipping points by Damon Central, Ph.D, found that 25% of of people need to take a stand before large-scale social change occurs: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-behavior-spreads/201905/the-25-percent-tipping-point-social-change
Finally, we also have a source for the idea we discussed, where people underestimate how much other people support climate action, compared to their own values, which makes being visible and vocal about wanting to see change in this area even more important: https://behavioralscientist.org/we-still-underestimate-others-support-for-climate-action/.
Follow along at https://www.instagram.com/bettercircles.co/
 

Katie Falkiner has a note above her desk: "You'll never start a revolution by being dreary." She's woven this approach into her multidisciplinary career that spans writing, systems and city design, and imagining the future of active transport.We had so much fun chatting to Katie about why cycling is both freedom and fun, how sewing is a kind of alchemy, and finding out who she'd name a sandwich after.

No guest this episode, just Fi and Luke hanging out in the comfy chairs and having a chat. 
We talk about the power of short feedback loops in making positive change – building your own sense of hope, positivity and ability to have an impact. And how we're each trying to create those positive experiences through teaching workshops, making pickles from veggie scraps and turning pants into bags.
We also go down a bit of a rabbit hole about a new startup that's fermenting, rather than farming milk, and how we feel about that.
If you're keen to get involved with Luke's sewing and upcycling workshops, you can find them all here: https://intocarry.co/pages/workshopcategories.
And the cooking classes at the Moving Feast kitchen are all here: https://purposeprecinct.org/pages/whatson.