About Your Sustainable Nest.
Families make dozens of decisions every day that influence their health, household resources, and the environment. Yet sustainability information can often feel complicated, conflicting, or unrealistic.
Your Sustainable Nest was created to make sustainability easier to understand and apply in everyday life. We combine science-informed knowledge with practical tools, education, and services that help individuals, families, and organizations make more sustainable choices.
YSN translates sustainability knowledge into clear information, practical tools, and everyday actions that individuals, families, and communities can understand and apply.
What We Aim to Do
– make sustainability understandable and relevant to everyday life;
– educate families about realistic and achievable sustainable practices;
– encourage healthier and more resource-conscious household choices;
– translate credible scientific knowledge into practical action;
– build a community around sustainable living and responsible consumption;
– support local initiatives, professionals and small businesses working towards sustainability;
– develop practical tools, assessments and educational resources that help people understand and improve their impact; and
– contribute to more informed, evidence-based decision-making at household, community and organisational level.
Progress, Not Perfection.
We recognise that every household is different.
Budget matters. Time matters. Culture matters. Family circumstances matter. Available infrastructure matters. And access to sustainable alternatives is not the same everywhere.
YSN therefore doesn’t believe that sustainable living should be about judgement, guilt, or steep lifestyle changes.
We believe in understanding your starting point, identifying what you can realistically influence, and making better choices where they matter most.
Meet the Founder.
YSN grew from the belief that there is often a gap between sustainability knowledge and what people can realistically implement at home.
Meet Silva Kerkezian! Your Sustainable Nest was founded by Silva in 2021 with a simple ambition: to make sustainability easier to understand and easier to practice in everyday life, and to help families lead a healthier lifestyle, prevent exposures, and care for the planet.
Through YSN, Silva is developing a platform that brings together research, education, practical tools, and community engagement, beginning with one of the most important spaces in everyday family lifeāthe kitchen.
Silva has a Master of Science in Environmental Health and a Bachelor of Science in Public Health and Development Sciences. She has always wanted to take research from scientific journal papers to real-life experience and uptake. After becoming a mom, she found herself in a situation where she was not able to transform her knowledge into real-life practice, and this is how YSN was born!
The aim is not to tell families or communities how to live. It is to give them the knowledge and practical tools they can use to make informed choices that work for their household, their health, and priorities.
