Charities, including Oxfam and Traid, which rely on donations of unwanted clothes are facing an escalating theft problem - which could undermine public confidence in recycling and increase clothing waste, reports Louise Hunt
… suffer as criminal gangs target lucrative clothing recycling sector Louise Hunt | 1st February 2011 News Clothing Fashion Waste And Recycling … public confidence in recycling and increase clothing waste, reports Louise Hunt The …
If the mere idea of making your own clothes sends you running in panic to the high street, why not start with this really simple guide to re-fashioning a T-shirt as a dress
… | 23rd March 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Clothing Waste And Recycling Diy Make Your Own … 3. To enable people to access affordable clothing that has not been produced using …
The world's two largest clothing brands are among those that have just commited to eliminate pulp from ancient and endangered forests from all of their rayon and viscose clothing.
… handm-poster.png The world's two largest clothing brands are among those that have just … forests from all of their rayon and viscose clothing. The companies, retail and design … to address the growing impacts of the clothing industry on the world's forests, …
Could your fashion style be destroying forests and driving orang-utans towards extinction? Nicole Rycroft shows how cellulose fibres used in textiles are a major cause of biodiversity loss worldwide. But your choices can make all the difference ...
… hear coming from the change rooms of clothing retailers. However over the coming … to ensure endangered forests do not end up in clothing. Rayon, viscose and modal fabrics are … plant to be dyed and fashioned into the clothing that makes its way into our favourite …
Eco-label Goodone’s unique collaboration with the supermarket giant is finally bringing green fashion to the mass market
… six months. So what’s the solution to our eco clothing crisis? Well, one option is to buy … is getting in on the act with its latest eco-clothing collaboration – this time with …
What would you do if an American company planned to site a huge incinerator - bigger than the Millennium Stadium - above your town? How would you feel if you knew that no existing technology could prevent that incinerator pumping out toxic chemicals?
… suffer as criminal gangs target lucrative clothing recycling sector Charities, including … public confidence in recycling and increase clothing waste, reports Louise Hunt …
What do the Australian Environment Foundation, the Renewable Energy Foundation and the Global Warming Policy Foundation have in common? They are all fiercely anti-environment, writes William Laurance - and we must beware their 'eco-doublespeak'.
… Beware environmental wolves in sheep's clothing! William Laurance | 9th June 2014 …
Green Living Editor Ruth Styles answers your eco-lifestyle dilemmas. This week, we're talking textiles
Ask the Ecologist: cotton, hemp and bamboo - which is the green choice? Ruth Styles | 22nd June 2011 Ethical Living Fabric Textiles Bamboo Hemp Cotton Silk Fashion Waste And Recycling Society …
Scavenging is on the rise in the US and is no longer the exclusive domain of the poor. Felicity Carus reports on San Francisco's attempts to close down this informal sector and its impact on a burgeoning recycling culture
… suffer as criminal gangs target lucrative clothing recycling sector Charities, including … public confidence in recycling and increase clothing waste, reports Louise Hunt NEWS …
We may know that palm oil is wiping out rainforests worldwide, writes Philip Lymbery. But few realise that our factory farmed meat and dairy are contributing to the problem. As revealed in Philip's new book, 'Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were', palm kernels, left after pressing the fruit for oil, is a protein-rich livestock feed of growing importance. And nowhere is the impact greater than Sumatra, home (for now) to its own unique species of elephant.
The oilpalm connection: is the Sumatran elephant the price of our cheap meat? Philip Lymbery CIWF | 28th March 2017 News Food Farming Extinction Forests Indonesia Elephants sumatran-elephant-cut.jpg …
Gift ideas from businesses channelling their creativity into waste reduction methods.
… in Sweden, the company focuses on outdoor clothing and equipment and is committed to … fair trade products from food and drink to clothing and gifts. * …
Calls to bring forward ban on recyclable material sent to landfill increase, as reports emerge of big increases in the quantity of textile waste being dumped
'Primark effect' still clogging up UK landfills The Ecologist | 19th January 2010 News Waste Food And Farming Recycling Landfill Renewable Waste And Recycling textiles.jpg A million tonnes of textile …
Can sustainability be stylish? If Lost Property of London’s eco-accessories are anything to go by, yes it can
Lost Property of London The Ecologist | 13th April 2011 Ethical Living Bags Fashion Accessories Recycling Waste And Recycling Green Living Society holding.jpg Can sustainability be stylish? If Lost …
Slavery is a terrible thing for the world's estimated 36 million slaves, writes Kevin Bales. But it's also an environmental disaster. Many slaves are forced to work in destructive activities like clearing forests for mines, farms and plantations - making slave labour the world's third biggest 'country' in terms of CO2 emissions. It really is time to end slavery!
World must end slavery - for the environment as well as human rights Kevin Bales University of Hull | 18th May 2016 Comment Human Rights Forests Farming Consumerism The Land Climate Change Emissions …
It's not just Indonesia's forests and peatlands that are burning - the Amazon is suffering almost as badly, with over 18,000 fires last month in Brazil alone, write Jos Barlow & Erika Berenguer. The future is looking hot and fiery.
18,000 fires rage in Brazil's Amazon rainforest Jos Barlow Erika Berenguer | 2nd December 2015 News Forests Climate Change COP21 Emissions Amazon Brazil Farming 2nd Decmber 2015 …
The Kawahiva, an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon rainforest, face extinction unless Brazil's government acts to secure their legal rights to land, security and to remain undisturbed by outsiders, writes Lewis Evans. The decree that would achieve this vital goal has been sitting on the Minister of Justice's desk since 2013. Let's make sure he signs it soon, before it's too late.
… . A handshake, a hug, a brush with a piece of clothing, any physical proximity could …
A new paradigm of forest conservation is gaining ground, writes Isaac Rojas: 'financialising' them and the climate and ecological services they provide to global investors. But this is a false solution - and one that excludes the local and indigenous forest communities who can truly be relied upon to sustain their sylvan heritage.
… on which they depend for food, shelter, clothing, medicines and ultimately, survival. …
The economic troubles in Argentina have been widely reported around the world. The impoverishment of the middle classes and the Argentines’ growing cynicism about their politicians have been extensively written up. Less well covered in the news has been the effects of the crisis on Argentina’s very poorest – people who live far from the eye of city-based reporters, the country’s original inhabitants, a people despised and vilified as ‘savages’ by the settler population.
Leapfrogging the Law Dr John Palmer | 1st June 2003 News Tribal Protest Indigneous People Deforestation Forests Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Natural World Politics And Economics investigates.jpg …
Survivors of a previously unknown Amazon tribe have escaped gunmen in Peru, seeking refuge with settled indigenous communities in Brazil. But as Alice Bayer reports, their problems are far from over. Many remain under threat in Peru, and even the refugees are at risk of common but potentially lethal infections.
… are filmed helping themselves to items of clothing and tools from the Asháninka's …
Every year we’re landfilling or incinerating 200 million non-recycled, mass produced, unromantic valentine cards. So this year we should all make more of an effort to keep our romance and the planet alive.
… help for homemade goodies from cookies and clothing to handmade photo albums and …
Isn't three trillion trees enough to keep our planet healthy? It sounds like a lot, writes James Dyke, but they are under threat as never before, from deliberate deforestation and climate change. Many of the 1.5 billion trees we are losing a year are in the last great rainforests - key ecosystems under threat of drying out forever under our escalating double onslaught.
Three trillion trees live on Earth - and we need every one of them James Dyke | 3rd September 2015 News Forests Science Climate Change Emissions forest-lungs-cut.jpg Isn't three trillion trees enough …