NatureHub’s Weekly 10 Inspirations for Conscious Consumers #004
Week #004 — #Ethical Fashion
Welcome to NatureHub’s Weekly 10 Inspirations — a guide to help you:
Find Good, Find Green, Find Local.
This Week’s Topic is industrial #Ethical-Fashion:
What’s behind your low-cost fashionable belongings? Exploitation of labor, environment and your own health.
#1 Documentary: The True Cost
Have you ever thought of the true cost behind so called fast fashion? The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on negative consequences of the fashion industry and asks us to consider who really pays the price for our clothing?
#2 Campaign: Detox My Fashion
Greenpeace has been leading the wave against unethical fast fashion industry. Their campaigns make you question whether you’re wearing top fashion or top toxins. In recent years, they have been pushing the apparel giants to eliminate hazardous chemicals used in their manufacturing processes and have run the campaign Detox My Fashion to evaluate big corps’ commitment of Detox 2020 deadline.
Here is the result.
#3 Movement: Fashion Revolution
Fashion Revolution is a global active movement calling for greater transparency, sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry. Their mission is to bring people radically changing modern fast fashion industry to a fair, ethical, and sustainable way.
#4 Innovative Business: Archroma x Ternua Nutcycle
Archroma developed EarthColors using non-edible waste products, from agriculture and herbal industries, to replace petroleum derived raw materials. They currently collaborate with Ternua and Nutcycle collection aimed at using the nutshells waste from nearby places to dye the fabric, a blend of post-consumer recycled cotton and polyester. It’s natural and low impact. It will be available in shops by February 2019.
#5 Pioneer Brand: prAna
Big Corp has big impact. prAna has been a leading sustainable brand in yoga clothes industry. They have been strongly focused on sustainability in the supply chain and been one of the first major clothing companies to offer Fair Trade Certified™ products.
#6 Local Business: Conscious Clothing (Rockford, MI)
Rose and Doug Phillips, a husband-and-wife team run the design studio in Rockford. They believe in the value of making the production process transparent, using low impact materials, handmade clothing, and sourcing locally. Conscious Clothing’s team make their clothes by cutting, sewing, washing, dying, tagging, ironing, and shipping all by themselves. They are re-envisioning the concept of supporting local and Made in America manufacturing.
#7 Blog: Do They Even Care?
A new fresh blog that brings you a guide to ethical fashion in Amsterdam. The author provides a map of ethical shops here.
#8 Blog: Tortoise and Lady Grey
A informative blog run by Summer Edwards, for you to live stylishly without sacrificing your ethics, and some practical inspiration for you to live sustainably with style.
#9 Documentary: Sweatshops-Deadly Fashion
Another documentary revealing the bloody truth behind the cheap clothes you are wearing, which make you rethink the meaning of modern fashion. It’s about three young fashion bloggers who spend a month living the life of Cambodian sweatshop workers in Phnom Penh.
#10 Innovative Idea: Who Made My Clothes?
Who Made My Clothes is an educational program and movement aimed at facilitating anyone with an interest in influencing the fashion industry towards a more ethical culture that values people, environment, creativity, and profit equally.
🌱 Eva Chou — Conscious Community Ambassador in NatureHub
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