This is the second piece in The Passionista Project series. You can read the first one here.

Jessica Marati has been a part of the {r}evolution since our Kickstarter days, when she wrote a piece about us for Gadling. Since then, she’s come into our lives in different ways, writing for many of our favorite fashion and eco websites. So when she messaged us with a new project she’s been working on, we knew that we had to include her in the Passionista Project. Kudos to her for creating an inspired company with an amazing mission. {r}

My passions probably aren’t so different from yours. I love people. I love travel. I love great ideas and beautiful things and eye-opening books and photos and food and wine. I love encountering people and projects that are making a difference in the world. I love sharing them.

These passions led me to create a website called tout le monde. The phrase is in French, and it means both “all the world” and “everyone.” I love that double meaning.

Over the past year or so, tout le monde has been my outlet for sharing ideas, resources, and discoveries in the world of sustainability and social responsibility. It has also borne witness to a personal revolution: a shift away from fast fashion, fast food, and fast living, toward a life that is more conscious and considered.

Today, tout le monde is still a place to explore ideas, but now it is also a place to explore items that encapsulate this new lifestyle, items that are stylish, well-crafted, sustainably made, and ethically produced. The debut collection consists of five different products from Cambodia, where I spent three months last year after leaving my job for the freedom (and uncertainty) of working freelance in order to dedicate more time to “passion projects” like tout le monde.

As for creating a revolution? I don’t know about that. But I do know that the past year has been the most exhilarating, exciting, scary, uncertain, eye-opening, perspective-shifting, inspirational year of my life. I can only imagine the ripple effect that could happen if more people took the plunge.

Find tout le monde on Twitter at @toutlemon_de.