Sustainable fashion is the only option for the future. Consumers are ready for it - so why is the industry slowing down its efforts?
… Fixing fashion? Ben Gleisner | 28th June 2019 News Fashion Sustainability Consumerism Thought Leaders methodslowfashion_06.jpg Sustainable fashion is the only …
America might be better known for Calvin Klein and co but as Ally Boyd discovered, eco-designer Annie Le is giving them a run for their dollars
… Living Annie Le Annie And Jade America USA Fashion Design Talent Designer Eco Green … Apart from Patagonia, how many American eco-fashion brands can you think of? The answer is … few’, not entirely surprising given that the fashion scene Stateside is well and truly …
Eco-friendly soap brand has launched shop designed to combat fast fashion.
… Fast fashion: method in the madness Staff Reporter … | 30th October 2018 News Change Makers Fast Fashion Ethical Clothing Consumerism Laundry Pollution methodslowfashion_06.jpg Eco-friendly soap brand has …
Controls on adverts for oil companies, SUV makers and airlines are already starting to happen - but what else should we stop advertising to raise our survival chances?
… Promoting pollution: fast fashion, fancy cruises Andrew Simms | 28th … list for consideration is growing, from fast fashion to fossil finance, red meat and dairy … from any given industry, such as fast fashion, can rapidly accelerate. Social …
The fashion industry listens to shoppers, even if governments don't. Use your power as a consumer to make safer, organic cotton more widely available:
… Help fashion go organic The Ecologist | 1st January 2009 Ethical Living Organic Clothing Fashion Clothes Cotton Organic Cotton … World Pollution Green_Living_MAIN_2.jpg The fashion industry listens to shoppers, even if …
'This is retail Armageddon.' Fast fashion faces collapse as people switch to necessary products like food during the coronavirus shutdown.
… The slow death of fast fashion Henry Saker-Clark | 24th April 2020 News Coronavirus Fashion Consumerism Capitalism 23526322-1.jpg … 'This is retail Armageddon.' Fast fashion faces collapse as people switch to …
Eithne Farry helps Matilda Lee relieve clothes closet boredom with some priceless 'no-sew sewing' tips
… 2006 Ethical Living Recycling Clothes Fashion Denim Jeans Sewing Recycling Green … style goddess, Eithne Farry, who's been re-fashioning her own clothes for many, many … anyone with a good eye for a bargain can be 'fashionable'. So what exactly was I getting …
How to dissent peacefully from the corruption, waste and destruction of the world? By a mindful disengagement from evil, writes Julian Rose: from fossil fuel energy to propagandist media, from sweatshop clothing to the predatory financial system. Some of the steps we can take are easy, others very difficult - but what ultimately matters is the direction of travel.
… April 2016 Ethical Living Energy Food Finance Fashion Consumerism Media egg-cut.jpg How to … those who refuse to pay taxes in a targeted fashion. Taxes are, after all, a calculated … the point of view of the microwaves, the old fashioned land line telephone looks positively …
The cowboys and Indians are still there but there’s more to America’s 48th state than reliving the glory days of the Wild West. Home to seven different ecosystems, it is leading the way in conservation and green tourism. Ruth Styles went to find out more
… in 1989, the Grand Canyon Railway’s old-fashioned steam trains were rusting in the … it as the train pulls into the charmingly old fashioned timber Grand Canyon station, before … Park , is the White Stallion Ranch , an old fashioned dude ranch and cattle farm with a …
Katharine Hamnett is one of the UK’s leading fashion designers. In 1984 she famously wore a T-shirt opposing the purchase of US Pershing missiles at a reception attended by Margaret Thatcher. Since then she has campaigned on nuclear power, Third World debt, human rights, HIV and environmental issues.
… 2005 Ethical Living Organic Cotton Clothing Fashion Katharine Hamnett Design Green … Katharine Hamnett is one of the UK’s leading fashion designers. In 1984 she famously wore a …
‘I’ve been to a fair number this – this is a fantastic place to be based,’ says the Soil Association’s Lee Holdstock, fresh from a trip to the remote south west corner of the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides.
… Sheep The Isle Of Mull Wool Clothing Weaving Fashion Clothing Fashion Sustainability Clothing Consumerism …
Consumers are set to spend £800 million on 10 million wedding outfits they will wear once.
… film with tips from experts on sustainable fashion. The charity is urging people to … warning that current levels of throwaway fashion are "wasteful, expensive and …
At ReTuna in Sweden everything sold is recycled or reused or has been organically or sustainably produced. NATALIE BENNETT reports on the benifits of a more circular economy and what we can learn from the world's first recycling mall.
… with a mixture of secondhand and upcycled fashion. Economic boost Some is definitely on … with quirky slogans. And of course upcycled fashion, from the adventurously quirky to the …
‘Religion is the opium of the people’ is one of Marx’s best-known aphorisms. It is memorable because it tells us so much about the manipulation of faith in the industrial era
… and that an invisible hand might somehow fashion order out of economic chaos. Growth is … his response was to reel off a list of fashionable consumer goods and gadgets, …
It’s the polar opposite of the glossy celebrity and lifestyle magazine, celebrating the personal and the everyday. Laura Sevier meets the creative force behind Karen
… spread with pâté for cat sick), clothes are unfashionable, people are ordinary-looking and … readers agree. Karen shows me an email from a fashion stylist from Canada: ‘Reading it I … Maybe because it’s so far away from all the fashion magazines I’m used to reading… I think …
Black Friday is yet another manifestation of a consumer culture that is both empty and destructive, writes Vicki Hird. So instead let's join in creative celebrations of Buy Nothing Day ('no purchase necessary'), and develop a new life-enhancing ethic of joyful frugality.
… too often feel the sharp end of 'cheap' fast fashion; Producing clothes at such rock bottom … including better wages and conditions for fashion workers . Support the fight against …
One of Canada’s most well known photographers, Edward Burtynsky, has travelled the world documenting the link between nature and industry through his large-format photos of nature transformed through industry; the ‘manufactured landscapes’ of mines, dams, and factories.
… needs and wants for endless products are both fashioned and manufactured. Burtynsky’s own …
What do you get if you cross a shoe with a coconut? A bounty for the feet. Laura Sevier meets Sven Segal, eco shoe designer and founder of the Po-Zu range, who has found a novel use for waste coconut husks. . .
… Clothing Risk Human Rights Industrial Fashion Consumerism Lessons From Nature Fair …
Last week's 'War on Waste' - throwaway coffee cups were the deserving target - was an exemplar of effective single-issue campaigning by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. But the answers to our waste problems go way beyond recycling. We must begin to plan a societal transition to a post-consumer culture of caring, sharing, and knowing when we have enough.
… Recycling Economics Green Economy Society UK Fashion Drink shopping-cut.jpg Last week's …
There's quite a fashion now for creating enormous ocean nature reserves, write Peter J S Jones & Elizabeth De Santo. The UK kicked off the trend last year at Pitcairn Island, and now the US has followed up with a 1.5m sq.km reserve around Hawaii. But while these look like big conservation gains, the more serious task is to manage sustainably the intensely exploited seas close to home.
… There's quite a fashion now for creating enormous ocean nature …
I have to confess I've been feeling thoroughly gloomy about the state of the nation lately, and I blame a certain supermarket chain that I shall call 'Blank'
… become fearful of going shopping in the old-fashioned sense. We would rather wander lonely …
Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption…
… consumers who view personal electronics as fashion accessories? Or, aware that even if … at agency Metadesign, says: ‘Cell phones as fashion accessories are the ultimate …