How ‘Sustainable’ Web Design Can Help Fight Climate Change
2 min read · Paywall possible · 83 saves · Jun 23rd · To cut the carbon, programmers are cutting the code. Call it green programming.
More Recycling Can’t Fix The Fundamental Flaws With Fast Fashion
4 min read · 36 saves · 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.
Food waste is going to take over the fashion industry
3 min read · 26 saves · From 2018 · The startup Circular Systems is pioneering new tech to convert food crop waste–like banana peels and hemp stalks–into wearable fibers.
MPs to examine environmental footprint of UK fashion industry
3 min read · 25 saves · From 2018 · Inquiry will explore the carbon impact, resource use and water footprint of growing throwaway ‘fast fashion’ sector
This small fashion startup has big plans to save the planet
5 min read · 22 saves · 2018-07-20 · 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.
Renting clothes could be the future of fashion
3 min read · 19 saves · 2018-08-13 · It's already well established for some items - think tuxedos - so why not extend it?
5 Innovations That Could Help Make Fast Fashion More Sustainable
3 min read · 18 saves · 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…
Fashion's Dirty Little Secret And How It's Coming Clean
5 min read · 60 saves · 2018-09-09 · 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…
An Eco-Friendly Startup Is Converting Banana Peels Into Fabric for Clothes
4 min read · From 2018 · Eat your banana and wear it, too.
You can now buy a bag made from this mushroom “leather”
1 min read · 14 saves · 2018-09-05 · At $400, this tote from Bolt Threads is not cheap, but it is very sustainable (and stylish).
'Plastic is not cool' – is fashion finally cleaning up its act?
5 min read · 21 saves · 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…
what is the answer to fashion's waste problem?
7 min read · 2018-10-30 · 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:…