Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 November 2016

Patagonia Does Black Friday Right

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A fascinating sidebar to our earlier post about Black Friday alternatives also ties into concerns about the President-elect of the United St...
Thursday, 17 November 2016

Is Trump An Environmental Nightmare?

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It's been a week since the shocking rise to the one of the most powerful offices in the world by former reality star and four-time bankr...
Thursday, 15 September 2016

Both Sides Of the Story

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The tone of our last couple of posts has been a little... well, bleak , I guess. It's hard to be light-hearted when the world seems to b...
Friday, 12 August 2016

The End Of Cashmere?

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Cashmere. It's one of the world's most luxurious fibres. Its softness is legendary, and clothes woven from the fine fleece of the Mo...
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, 28 June 2016

Brexit And The Environment

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Good grief. I go away for a week, and look what happens. The U.K. Is facing a major constitutional crisis following its decision to leave th...
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...
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, 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 ...
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, 26 June 2015

I'll Tumble For Ya: Shaking Up The Tumble Dryer

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It's a little-known fact that a significant percentange of the energy that any one piece of clothing will use in its lifetime occurs a...
Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Building The Case For Reusing Waste Textiles

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It's a sad fact that we send millions of tons of unwanted or worn-out clothing to landfill every year. As well as being wasteful, it...
Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Bag It Up: How Hand-Weaving Could Solve The Plastic Bag Problem

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Here at The Pier, we believe that recycling is a big part of the future of sustainable fashion. Cradle-to-cradle thinking along with some...
Friday, 15 August 2014

Keeping Fashion Out Of The Forests

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We're all agreed, I hope, that deforestation is A Bad Thing. Vast swathes of the green lungs of the world are disappearing daily; to fee...
Friday, 30 May 2014

Clean Clothes

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We were talking earlier in the week about smart fashion: that is, clothes that do more than keep you warm and flatter your shape. On the f...
Thursday, 27 February 2014

Space For Cycling

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You would think, in this era of dwindling fuel supply, rising prices and global warming, that making our towns and cities more bike-friendly...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013

How Your Old Socks Could Save The World

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Reycling is one of the most important ways in which we can cut down on waste going to landfills, and drop energy emissions from manufactu...
Friday, 16 August 2013

Dry The Rain: H&M's Ambitious New Water Management Plan

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Sustainability is, at its heart, the careful management of available resources. It's about ensuring that your raw materials are availa...
Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Saving The Rainforest With Lily Cole

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You should, as the saying goes, never judge a book by the cover. Take model and actress Lily Cole. Her ethereal, almost alien looks have s...
Monday, 22 April 2013

Happy Earth Day from Pier32!

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Citizens of Earth: greetings! Today, we celebrate the one thing that we all truly have in common--the small, blue dot in the cosmos that w...