What is LOHAS anyway?

Mike Catherall
Are you interested in living a healthy, balanced life over one of avarice and mass consumption?

Are you more interested in the 'triple bottom line' of economic, environmental and social purchasing than the convenient end-result?

Are your customers?

Do they have an active interest in personal development, spirituality, social justice, the food they eat, and the sustainability of the earth?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions, then you are most likely involved in a new market of consumer known as the 'Cultural Creative'.

Cultural Creatives are interested in the holistic nature of existence by supporting the environment, living a balanced life, and seeking to steadily improve of themselves, their lifestyle and the world around them. This classification of people has grown to encompass the baby boomers of the 60s and 70s and an increasing number of individuals who believe in a lifestyle of health and sustainability, or LOHAS.


LOHAS encompasses a wide variety of ethical practices: organic food, ethical business, sustainable energy and alternative medicine, and has grown to become a $270 billion US market. If you are not already familiar with the patterns and beliefs associated with LOHAS consumers, then it is important to recognize these tendencies in a population that is shifting more and more toward 'triple bottom line' product and service choices, and act upon them.

Creative Wonders has twelve years of experience dealing with the LOHAS market, and we consider ourselves the specialists in how to communicate with the Cultural Creative. If you are reading this, then chances are you are already operating a LOHAS business, or are a Cultural Creative yourself, and you will understand the importance of speaking in a language that we can all relate to.
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Mike Catherall

Mike Catherall is the founder of Immersion Creative. 



The idea behind this Vancouver advertising agency is that the best solutions are often found by completely immersing the writer in a client's environment, to get a true feel of the business.

Working from within, Mike can produce everything from TV ads, to websites, to brochures, radio and ambient, all the while creating an online presence that will keep you on the first page of Google.

Mike is an award-winning English copywriter and columnist as well as a former Native English teacher. He has worked for some of the world's most prestigious agencies, including Ogilvy & Mather and Publicis on clients such as Disneyland, Mercedes-Benz, Citibank and Western Union.

For years, Mike worked as a copywriter in Hong Kong. He has also written novels, radio plays, children's books, screenplays, and more than ten blogs. He makes smartphone auto apps as well.

His adventures as an English copywriter can be found here. In his American Chronicle columns, Mike's focus is on sustainability advertising.

His current clients include mattress Victoria retailer, Mattress Choice, as well as CRNE prep course instructors - Primed Educational Associates and the best Vancouver mattress store, Simmons Mattress Gallery.

Immersion's other clients are: Vancouver West End Real Estate Agent, Anthea Poon, Mountain bike armour for Iron Mountain Wear, Vancouver Baby Photographer, Petite Reverie and Gibsons Bed and Breakfast A Warehouse Hide-A-Way.

To find out more, visit Immersion Creative, or call 604 537 1874.

Mike supports the Earth Rising Foundation and cancer-fighting Radiochemistry as performed by the Lapi Lab.

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