environmental activist and founder, Menos1 Lixo

Fe Cortez is an environmental activist, speaker and founder of Menos 1 Lixo (“One Less Trash”), a movement and impact business that promotes environmental education and has the original retractable silicone cup from Brazil as a symbol.

She is currently writing her first book, which explores how to live regeneratively in the New Age. She covers this from a systemic viewpoint that questions the status quo and proposes alternatives for us to collectively evolve and solve the environmental challenges that our lifestyle presents. 

Fe is an advisor to Greenpeace and an advocate for Clean Seas by the UN Environment Programme in Brazil. She was awarded as a Sustainability Personality in Brazil by Glamour magazine in 2017 and recognized as an influencer in favor of the Zero Waste concept in Brazil by Instituto Lixo Zero in 2018, as well as host of the first edition of the Discovery Home & Health program "Less is More”. She was also a columnist for the Ela journal from the O Globo newspaper. She is currently a columnist for Glamour Magazine.