Sustainability
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WIRED
How ‘Sustainable’ Web Design Can Help Fight Climate Change
WIRED
3 min read · 2020-06-23 · To cut the carbon, programmers are cutting the code. Call it green programming.
Fast Company
More Recycling Can’t Fix The Fundamental Flaws With Fast Fashion
Fast Company
5 min read · From 2018 · Everyone in fashion is talking about “circularity,” but just focusing on reuse isn’t enough to lower the industry’s massive carbon footprint.
Fast Company
Food waste is going to take over the fashion industry
Fast Company
3 min read · From 2018 · The startup Circular Systems is pioneering new tech to convert food crop waste–like banana peels and hemp stalks–into wearable fibers.
Guardian Fashion
MPs to examine environmental footprint of UK fashion industry
Guardian Fashion
3 min read · From 2018 · Inquiry will explore the carbon impact, resource use and water footprint of growing throwaway ‘fast fashion’ sector
Fast Company
This small fashion startup has big plans to save the planet
Fast Company
5 min read · From 2018 · Three-year-old brand Aday believes in eco-friendly clothing, and is turning to solar energy and recycled plastic to make its futuristic high-tech apparel.
World Economic Forum
Renting clothes could be the future of fashion
World Economic Forum
4 min read · From 2018 · It's already well established for some items - think tuxedos - so why not extend it?
Fast Company
5 Innovations That Could Help Make Fast Fashion More Sustainable
Fast Company
4 min read · From 2018 · From dissolving fabric to clothes made from algae, the winners of this year’s Global Change award are trying to plot a new way forward for a fashion industry that’s been too focused on disposable clothing.
Forbes
Fashion's Dirty Little Secret And How It's Coming Clean
Forbes
5 min read · From 2018 · What the fashion industry calls "deadstock" is being routinely destroyed, defaced and dumped—for no good reason. There's a push to reuse, recycle and reduce instead.
Mental Floss
An Eco-Friendly Startup Is Converting Banana Peels Into Fabric for Clothes
Mental Floss
4 min read · From 2018 · Eat your banana and wear it, too.
Fast Company
You can now buy a bag made from this mushroom “leather”
Fast Company
1 min read · From 2018 · At $400, this tote from Bolt Threads is not cheap, but it is very sustainable (and stylish).
Guardian Fashion
'Plastic is not cool' – is fashion finally cleaning up its act?
Guardian Fashion
5 min read · From 2018 · As World Oceans Day approaches, Lucy Yeomans, Net-a-Porter’s chief executive, is leading the way in tackling fashion’s addiction to the ‘plastic drug’. But there’s a long way to go
VICE UK
what is the answer to fashion's waste problem?
VICE UK
7 min read · From 2018 · As Burberry, Stella McCartney and H&M pledge to help eliminate plastic pollution, we look back to The Earthwise Issue, in which Osman Ahmed asked: How can fashion find a new route to sustainability?
parliament.uk
Sustainability of the fashion industry inquiry launched
parliament.uk
8 min read · From 2019 · Environmental Audit Committee investigate the social and environmental impact of disposable ‘fast fashion’ and the wider clothing industry
VICE UK
searches for sustainable fashion have increased by 66% in the past year
VICE UK
1 min read · From 2019 · Research by fashion search engine Lyst suggests that consumers are being more aware and careful about what they purchase.
