GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

And yet, the coronavirus pandemic, for all the havoc it has wrought on the industry, has pushed the sustainable business agenda even further, forcing business leaders to reevaluate their role in society and better articulate their value, not just in terms of money, but also in terms of corporate purpose and the way they contribute to the world. .

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Nothing Left Behind Free Hiker Gore-Tex shoe is an ankle-supporting athletic shoe in sophisticated colors for the sustainably-minded hiker. It’s the latest in a growing movement for sustainable footwear. They are part of the brand’s push for a more sustainable future and an end to plastic waste.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This fall, online retailer ASOS is launching its first collection of circular fashions. A collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Fashion , the 29 women’s, men’s and unisex styles aim to prove that eco-friendly clothing can also be chic. Instead of waste, ASOS aims to create an endless series of new fashions.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

High-profile deployments have included its use to convert carbon emissions into fabrics used in the fashion industry , and to convert MSW into useful fuels and chemicals. The application of our Hummingbird™ technology to produce bio-ethylene is one step to a more sustainable future.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Who doesn’t love a good fashion contest? The Redress Design Award is using competition to shine a spotlight on sustainable fashion and make eco-friendly style something that all designers strive to achieve. Through events like this, Redress hopes to raise awareness about the waste crisis happening in fashion.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

designer Maddie Williams has recently launched a sustainable puffer jacket after winning the Redress Design Award 2019, one of the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competitions. Redress winner launches puffer jacket made of upcycled materials. The jacket now retails in over 100 stores in China.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 12, 2021

What are sustainable construction materials? Today, there is a growing variety of sustainable construction materials taking the place of traditional materials. Picking the right sustainable construction material for your project depends in large part on your location. Concrete and Cement.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This fall, online retailer ASOS is launching its first collection of circular fashions. A collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Fashion , the 29 women’s, men’s and unisex styles aim to prove that eco-friendly clothing can also be chic. Instead of waste, ASOS aims to create an endless series of new fashions.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Award-winning design studio OPENUU has joined forces with RIL CREED, a sustainable handbag fashion brand, to create two collections for home and lifestyle using upcycled genuine Italian leather. The two companies came together for the project after realizing the negative impact that fashion waste has on the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

According to the paper, “this sustainable approach for upcycling electronic waste provides an advantageous research-based waste stream that does not require cutting-edge microfabrication facilities, expensive materials or high-caliber engineering skills.”. How can we upcycle those types of CDs with the same kind of process?

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

BusinessGreen gets a behind-the-scenes look at the fast fashion company's new green range. A growing band of major fashion retailers have pledged to achieve net zero emissions and overhaul their design and manufacturing processes to make the notoriously resource intensive industry more sustainable.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 26, 2020

The fashion industry deserves a harsh slap on the wrist for how its manufacturing impacts the environment. Native is not new to the sustainable manufacturing effort, with a history of innovative research and design. These funky sandals upcycle fabric from the cutting room floor. ” + Native Shoes Images via Native Shoes.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 5, 2020

Not only do the sustainability features make this project cost-effective and environmentally responsive, it has introduced a series of unique wall patterns and buying conditions for the owner’s clients. The client, a fashion designer, provided their own reclaimed fabrics to reupholster the seating as well.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Inside the world’s first VR circular fashion summit: 4 key takeaways Lilian Liu Wed, 10/14/2020 – 01:30 COVID-19 has radically accelerated the need for the fashion industry to innovate. The second edition of the Circular Fashion Summit bears fruit of this new socially distanced reality. Attendee avatars can be seen.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Dubbed 'Resellfridges: The Wedding', the pop-up workshop is slated to run for five weeks, offering customers vintage wedding accessories and outfits, as well as helping customers upcycle old clothes or rent entire wedding party outfits, the retailer said yesterday.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

While textiles and fashion are responsible for between 4% – 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, WRAP finds the average UK adult has 118 items of clothing in their wardrobes of which one quarter (26% – 31 items) were unworn for at least a year. A fashion revolution could help clothe the nation sustainably, says WRAP.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2020

The Relevance of Gemba Walk to Sustainable Businesses. For sustainability, leaders can confidently implement sustainability initiatives because it truly fits the purpose and not just because it feels good or right to do so. Secondly, it is not the time for quick fixes. How to Make The Gemba Walk a Fruitful Exercise.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sustainability Program Challenges. Despite the continued CEO efforts and rising customer, employee, investor and political interest, many businesses are struggling to integrate sustainability into the core of their operations. In 2019, a mere 16% of executives stated sustainability as a built-in business function.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Dubbed 'Resellfridges: The Wedding', the pop-up workshop is slated to run for five weeks, offering customers vintage wedding accessories and outfits, as well as helping customers upcycle old clothes or rent entire wedding party outfits, the retailer announced yesterday.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

The well-known Mexican chain has launched Chipotle Goods, a line of sustainable clothing made with responsibly-sourced materials. All the clothing line’s profits will support organizations that make fashion and farming more sustainable and better for the planet. That’s right: sustainable clothing.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

These are: food systems, the built environment, fashion and textile, electronics, and packaging. In the private sector, circular enterprises are contributing to improving the environment while sustaining livelihoods in Africa.

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GreenTech Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2020

Sustainability is big business! It seems as though companies of all shapes and sizes are tripping over themselves trying to show conscientious consumers that they have a strong ethical focus and their sights set on sustainability. But how much of this is investment in green innovation, and how much of it is marketing bluster.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 15, 2020

TikTokers aren’t just young, fashionable and good at lip-synching and skits. and used for sharing user-generated music videos, the platform is now popular with people sharing sustainability tips, promoting veganism and talking about their concerns for the future of the planet. Originally called music.ly Aiken is U.S.-based

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

New fashion house Valani has launched its debut collection of biodegradable separates and dresses inspired by “light living.” The fashion brand has designed its pieces to reflect sustainability, with soft styles that can be worn throughout the year — regardless of season.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2021

Petite Lucette Launches a Sustainable and Circular Fashion Brand . Launched in 2014, Petite Lucette is a sustainable and circular fashion brand founded by French sisters, Anaïs and Clémence. They even upcycle fabric scraps into accessories to reduce the millions of tons of textile waste that enter landfills each year.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

The World Needs a More Sustainable Fashion Industry. Sustainable fashion is our only option. The future of our planet, maintaining adequate resources, and protecting human rights all depend on our toxic fashion industry evolving to a more sustainable and circular fashion industry. The average U.S.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

New fashion house Valani has launched its debut collection of biodegradable separates and dresses inspired by “light living.” The fashion brand has designed its pieces to reflect sustainability, with soft styles that can be worn throughout the year — regardless of season.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

In conjunction with the release of the Textile Exchange 2019 Material Change Index, GreenBiz has partnered with Textile Exchange to publish actionable insights for apparel and textile companies looking to source raw materials more sustainably. The entire series may be found here. Leather is one of the oldest materials in the world.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In recent years the word ‘fast' has been attached to many different industries, most well-known being ‘fast food' and ‘fast fashion'. More often than not the association with these phrases has been a negative one, especially around environmental awareness and sustainability.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 17, 2020

Sometimes, being disruptive is fashionable. As for Archivist, a sustainable clothing company, its business plan counts on being disruptive in the name of fashion and corporate responsibility. The answer inspired a campaign to turn used bedding into sustainable fashion.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

Across the world, people are voting with their feet for sustainable choices. At Google, we've seen searches for online sustainable goods increase by five times in the last five years. At Google, we've seen searches for online sustainable goods increase by five times in the last five years.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

‘Style it out with second-hand’ is the message from Zero Waste Scotland as, so the group says, the movement against fast fashion appears to be growing across the country. The Scottish Government-funded advisory body said Scottish shoppers increasingly recognise the threat of fast fashion and are thereby prioritising shopping second-hand.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 14, 2020

A new London-based company has created a sustainable line of wallets and cardholders made from a combination of vegan “apple leather” and “wood leather.” the upcycled apple leather has a much lower impact than similar faux leathers on the market right now. According to Oliver Co.,

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AGreenLiving

MAY 14, 2020

A new London-based company has created a sustainable line of wallets and cardholders made from a combination of vegan “apple leather” and “wood leather.” the upcycled apple leather has a much lower impact than similar faux leathers on the market right now. According to Oliver Co.,

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies accelerated the route to sustainable mobility. Sustainable fashion became material. Fashion is another long-simmering environmental story that has finally reached a boiling point. In 2020, several new developments help put sustainability in fashion. What would you add to the list?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As luxury fashion brands adapt and survive in the “new normal,” they can drive a renewed vision of the luxury business that demonstrates how to decouple volume growth from value growth. Showrooms and fashion weeks have gone digital. Meanwhile, digitization is accelerating efficiency and agility.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Online fashion retailer has trained its designers in making its clothing and jewellery more sustainable, recyclable and reusable. Where possible, the company is also encourang the use 'upcycle' of techniques that reuse old products to create "something new".

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