Kering’s Sustainability and Fiber Pollution Research Needs Fundig
This week’s headlines October 25-31 Kering Partners With London College Of Fashion to Support Sustainability
Trama Textiles: Women Empowerment in Guatemala
“Before Trama, the women in our communities didn’t have their own money and we had to ask for it from our husbands. With Trama, now we have our own money to pay for things like fruit and school supplies for our children. We feel proud
The Perfect Sustainable Wardrobe
What is the best way to sort your clothes? Have you found yourself magically losing garments and forgetting what you have? Do you “stumble upon” clothes rather than gracefully picking them from an organized and color coded grid? If this sounds familiar, I have a
Environmental Cost of a T-shirt, Garment Factory Collapse and Fur Farming
This week’s headlines October 18-24 Average environmental cost of a t-shirt set at $2 The Danish Environmental Protection Agency published “Danish apparel sector natural capital account“, a research document on the impact of apparel production in Denmark. In this paper, they calculate the natural capital costs
The Ultimate Ethical Fashion Guide
Being a more ethical consumer shouldn’t be hard. As a matter of fact, it’s very easy, there is one major rule that is the base of it all: I could stop here, since this is pretty much all you need to do. Buying fewer clothes will
Weekly Ethical Fashion News – October 11/17
This week’s headlines The global business of secondhand clothes thrives in Kenya Reuters October 15, 2014 Keywords: Kenia, Africa, developing countries, waste, apparel market, secondhand clothes, used clothes Shaded by ragged squares of canvas, amid choking dust and the noise of hawkers, shoppers in