WIRED
How ‘Sustainable’ Web Design Can Help Fight Climate Change
3 min read · From 2020 · To cut the carbon, programmers are cutting the code. Call it green programming. · Shared by 87, including Joe Lencioni, Chris Isak , Katja Evertz, Nicolas Babin, Moritz Orendt, Backchannel
Fast Company
More Recycling Can’t Fix The Fundamental Flaws With Fast Fashion
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.
· Shared by 37, including Alexandra Wong
Fast Company
Food waste is going to take over the fashion industry
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.
· Shared by 27, including Simon Hanson, Liliane Ferrari ™
Guardian Fashion
MPs to examine environmental footprint of UK fashion industry
3 min read · From 2018 · Inquiry will explore the carbon impact, resource use and water footprint of growing throwaway ‘fast fashion’ sector · Shared by 25
Fast Company
This small fashion startup has big plans to save the planet
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. · Shared by 22, including Debbie Meier ✍️⚖️
World Economic Forum
Renting clothes could be the future of fashion
4 min read · From 2018 · It's already well established for some items - think tuxedos - so why not extend it? · Shared by 19
Fast Company
5 Innovations That Could Help Make Fast Fashion More Sustainable
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.
· Shared by 21
Forbes
Fashion's Dirty Little Secret And How It's Coming Clean
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. · Shared by 64, including Liliane Ferrari ™
Mental Floss
An Eco-Friendly Startup Is Converting Banana Peels Into Fabric for Clothes
4 min read · From 2018 · Eat your banana and wear it, too. · Shared by 8
Fast Company
You can now buy a bag made from this mushroom “leather”
1 min read · From 2018 · At $400, this tote from Bolt Threads is not cheap, but it is very sustainable (and stylish).
· Shared by 14
Guardian Fashion
'Plastic is not cool' – is fashion finally cleaning up its act?
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 · Shared by 21
VICE UK
what is the answer to fashion's waste problem?
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? · Shared by 3, including i-D
parliament.uk
Sustainability of the fashion industry inquiry launched
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
1 min read · From 2019 · Research by fashion search engine Lyst suggests that consumers are being more aware and careful about what they purchase. · Shared by 3, including i-D
