Showing posts with label cotton industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cotton industry. Show all posts
Friday, 13 January 2017

Growing The Skills For Organic Farming In India

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The move towards organic farming of textile crops has to be applauded, but so far it has been a slow process. The problem, particularly in t...
Tuesday, 15 November 2016

A Europe-Wide Plan For Sustainable Change

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We need to get a handle on waste and sustainability in the fashion industry. Recent figures show that we throw away the equivalent of seven ...
Thursday, 14 July 2016

There's Mush Room For These New Fabrics...

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The quest continues for new alternatives to the most polluting and simultaneously popular clothing materials on the planet. Cotton, even in...
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Livia Addresses The Elephant In The Room At Copenhagen

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The recent Copenhagen Fashion Summit featured a keynote speech from Livia Firth that didn't pull any punches. She excoriated the fast fa...
Friday, 20 May 2016

Do It Clean

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The uncomfortable truth about the clothing industry is that it's the second most polluting sector on the planet. Only oil is worse. Tha...
Thursday, 12 May 2016

An Ethical Foundation To Your Wardrobe: Mighty Good Undies!

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Pants. We all need them. We all wear them. They're the bedrock of any outfit. And yet, for the most part, we don't think about them...
Monday, 11 April 2016

Breaking The Chain

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The global supply chain. If there's one motor for the fast profit-driven ride that fast fashion has undertaken, it's the ability to...
Wednesday, 6 April 2016

School's In! How Bangladehsi Garment Workers Are Getting An Education

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It's very easy to to turn the garment workers of Bangladesh into victims. They are poorly paid and treated, often working in awful cond...
Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Community Clothing: Kickstarting British Textiles

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We like to think that, given the upsurge in demand for clothing from the fast fashion boom, that our factories are full to bursting. Sadly,...
Thursday, 10 March 2016

WRAP: Are We Sending More Clothes Than Ever To Landfill?

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A new report from sustainability certifiers WRAP bears worrying news for those of us who hope that we're starting to do better when it ...
Thursday, 25 February 2016

Support Shima

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Have you watched The True Cost yet? The breakthrough fashion documentary of last year, it took a wide-ranging approach to the subject of...
Thursday, 31 December 2015

2015: The Year At The Pier

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  2015 has been, to put it mildly, an eventful year. In our little corner of the world, we've seen all sorts of changes and innovations....
Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Making the connection between fashion and Climate Change at COP21

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Some interesting results are coming out of the International Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, not least from some big names in ...
Monday, 30 November 2015

Visible Clothing: Airing Their Nightwear In Public

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We're seeing a lot of people entering the realm of ethical fashion that are doing more than just greenwashing. They're taking a tho...
Monday, 23 November 2015

Modern Slavery And Fashion As A Drug

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Queen of eco-fashion Livia Firth attended the Trust Women conference in London last week–and she pulled no punches in making her contempt ...
Wednesday, 18 November 2015

The Chemical Cocktails In Your Clothes

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A disturbing report by researchers at Stockholm University has revealed that the chemicals used to make our clothes are hanging around f...
Friday, 6 November 2015

Success For SCAP

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In Wednesday's post , I talked about the huge potential for ethical success in ECAP–a newly created cross-Europe initative to build ...
Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Perfect Circle

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An important challenge to sustainable fashion is based around a very simple question–how do we keep textiles out of landfill? A million to...
Friday, 18 September 2015

UDITA!

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I wouldn't call it light viewing, but a documentary released in May has come across the Pier's News Desk that I think will be of int...
Friday, 28 August 2015

Tencel: The Wonder Fabric!

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A lot of people in the ethical fashion game bang on about organic cotton as if it's the only game in town. While cotton grown without ...