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Levi’s Employees Are Science Teachers for a Day
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Sustainably Attired
In this series published with the support of Levi Strauss & Co and a number of other leaders in sustainable fashion, we’ll explore the environmental impact of apparel.
We’ll take you through the lifecycle of fashion: from the design phase, through materials procurement, and product construction in a factory setting. We’ll also take a peek inside the consumer’s closet and look at how consumer demand influences the industry. Finally, we explore the leading second uses for worn-out garments and the future of the sustainable fashion movement as a whole.
There is no denying that sustainability in fashion is a meaty, complicated topic and a challenge for brands who wish to produce sustainable fashion that consumers will want to wear. Through the course of the series, we’ll seek to unravel how brands decide where to focus and how they prioritize competing issues. We’ll examine the impact of their efforts people and the planet, and we’ll take a look at the future of the industry. Check back here to follow along with this weekly series!
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Social Media Campaign Calls for Fashion Supply Chain Transparency
If you see people wearing their clothes inside-out today, don’t be alarmed. In support of Fashion Revolution Day, tens of […]
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Cradle-to-Cradle Tackles the Fashion Industry
There are many reasons to be down on today’s fashion industry: water pollution, toxic chemicals, landfill waste, garment worker exploitation […]
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Levi Strauss: 1 Billion Liters of Water Saved and Counting
After visiting the Ecuadorian coast, I understand better the gravity of water scarcity. During the dry season, high-cost water is […]
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The Apparel Industry's Answer to Global Water Shortages
Smart water usage is at the heart of a sustainable fashion industry. This isn’t a new realization; the fashion industry […]
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A Brief History of Sustainable Fashion
Type the words ‘future’ and ‘fashion’ into any search engine, and you’ll get a stream of results on 3-D printing, […]
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The Rise of Sustainable Fibers in the Fashion Industry
Listen to the generations before us, and our elders will tell us how instead of a walk-in closet full of […]
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VF Corp. Looks to Cut Chemicals in Textile Manufacturing
Back in 2011, Letitia Webster, now senior director of global sustainability for VF Corp., was asked to start and lead […]
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H&M CEO: Reducing Consumption Isn't the Answer
The CEO of one of the world’s largest clothing retailers thinks that we will be heading the wrong way if […]
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Conscious Design Can Drive Systemic Change in the Fashion Industry
The fashion industry as a whole doesn’t have a great reputation. Consider the culture of overconsumption and the growing tidal wave of […]
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A Sustainable Supply Chain "Race to the Top"
Levi Strauss is hoping that, by incentivizing its worldwide web of suppliers to operate more responsibly, it can create what it […]
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Why This Top College Apparel Company Pays Living Wages
As college football season drew to a close, fans were certainly more fixed on the final score of the championship than […]
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Why is Slow Fashion So Slow to Catch On?
We’ve all been there before (or know someone who has): We’re strolling through our neighborhood mall and our eyes catch […]
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Manufacture NY: The New Model for Sustainable Innovation
New York City’s apparel manufacturing sector is about to get a makeover: To reignite local fashion manufacturing and spur economic […]
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TriplePundit's Sustainable Holiday Gift Guide
When you have people and the planet on your mind, holiday shopping can be kind of a drag. Sure, you […]
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Wear What You Stand For: Uniting Humanity Through Fashion
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Little Pickle Press. By Shamini Dhana There are many universal mediums today that […]
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Clothes Shopping: Deciphering Useful Info From Care Tags
Lack of transparency in the clothing industry makes it difficult to make informed purchasing choices. If you don’t want to […]
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TriplePundit's Guide to Buying Used Clothing
Want to save 700 gallons of water for under $10? The next time you buy a new shirt, make sure […]
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Putting the Brakes on Fast Fashion
Just as fast food chains have fueled Americans’ hunger for more, bigger, faster when it comes to what we put […]
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The North Face Introduces Locally Grown Hoodie
When you hear the words “locally grown,” images of leafy-green-lined farmer’s markets, multi-colored CSA boxes, and interestingly odd-shaped heirloom tomatoes […]
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A Black Friday 2014 Call to Action: Durability Over Discounts?
Do a search for “Black Friday 2014” in your favorite search engine, and chances are you will come up with […]
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Why Taking Care of Your Apparel Workers is Good for Business
When the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory took the lives of more than 1,100 garment workers in Bangladesh last […]
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Slow Fashion Startup Zady to Launch American-Made Private Label
While big apparel brands ramp up production of a slew of fashions to gear up for the holiday season, Zady, […]
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Balancing Commerce, Idealism and Yoga Pants: Q&A with prAna CEO
An early adopter of organic cotton and the first major brand to bring Fair Trade apparel to market, prAna has […]
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After the Thrift Store: What Happens to Your Donated Clothes?
This past weekend, thousands of fans crowded Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, to watch the San Francisco 49ers play […]
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Series RE-Launch: Sustainable Apparel Part II Debuts Tomorrow!
Loyal readers will remember the tremendously successful series Sustainably Attired we ran this summer to explore the lifecycle of fashion. We’re thrilled […]
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4 Lessons the Apparel Industry Can Learn from Carpet-Makers
The 2014 Sustainable Brands conference in San Diego prompted discussions about a host of sustainability issues, from climate resilience to consumer […]
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Interview: Margaret Morey-Reuner, Timberland
Released in July 2012 by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), the Higg Index is a sustainability measurement tool that allows […]
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Fashion Futures: Resource Constraints and Sustainable Design
The fashion business is close to being a $2 trillion industry globally, and with a growing population predicted to reach […]
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Interview: Patagonia's Rick Ridgeway on Sustainable Apparel
In this interview at the Fortune Brainstorm Green 2014 conference, Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway talks to Nick Aster about the state of the […]
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San Francisco Program Provides a Roadmap for Eliminating Textile Waste
More than 25 billion pounds of textiles are discarded in the U.S. annually, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, […]
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3p Weekend: 10 Budding Trends in Sustainable Fashion
Over the past few months, we’ve been exploring the environmental and social impact of fashion in an in-depth series, so […]
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Why it's Important to Know Who Made Your Clothes (and What They're Made From)
By David Dietz, Modavanti Fast fashion has become the hundred-billion dollar industry it is today on a very simple premise: […]
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Green is the New Black: How Consumers Feel About Sustainable Apparel
By Raheen Khan The value of apparel in its current context has been simply reduced to personal cost and appearance. […]
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From Haiti to Kenya: Creating Fashion That Empowers
By Jonathan Wiesner and Eric Fleet Threads 4 Thought was founded in 2007 with a simple but clearly defined purpose. […]
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Turning Old Into New with Reused Sustainable Fibers
Until recently, most of us didn’t give a lot of thought to the fate of our clothes after they reach the end […]
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How to Get Consumers to Walk the Sustainability Talk When it Comes to Fashion
Marshall McLuhan famously said: “There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” While it can be applied to every sustainable […]
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Upcycling: The New Wave of Sustainable Fashion
Image: Models walk the runway wearing upscaled garments at a Redress fashion show. By Beth Stewart of Redress In a world […]
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Should Eco-Labels Shape Purchasing Choices?
Wouldn’t it be helpful when shopping for clothes or footwear to know which products contain problematic materials, utilize renewable energy in […]
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Can Fast Fashion Really be Sustainable?
Last Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of Bangladesh’s tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse, where 1,129 garment workers were killed. “If a positive can […]
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5 Lessons in Sustainable Apparel from Mata Traders
By Maureen Dunn I’ll never forget the skeptical look on Manjula’s face as I explained that a skirt above the […]
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Factory45: An Accelerator Program for Sustainable Fashion Entrepreneurs
By Danielle L. Vermeer Sustainable fashion entrepreneur and apparel consultant Shannon Whitehead burned through thousands of dollars and spent countless […]
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Sustainable Textiles: Harnessing a Spark in Customer Engagement
If there is one truism that sums up sustainable marketing today, it is that product sales don’t make a business […]
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Is Pop-Up Retail the Solution for Sustainable Fashion?
“I would buy more sustainable clothing, but…” Sound familiar? Even in the middle of the green bubble that is San […]
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Look Twice, Buy Once: Sustainability Through Consumer Restraint
By Mark Paigen There are many angles to sustainability in the fashion/apparel world. Fair trade companies seek to create good […]
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Is 'Made in the USA' Always the Most Sustainable Choice?
This is a question many of us have wondered about. Seeing how the local movement is so closely associated with […]
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Supply Chain Worker Rights: From Good Intentions to Implementation
Not that long ago worker rights were a given, labor unions were strong and powerful, as was the American middle […]
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The Stories in Your Closet: What Do Your Clothes Say About You?
By Mor Aframian, co-founder of Redress During my first semester in undergrad, a friend introduced me to the concept of […]
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How Loving Your Clothes Can Make the World a Better Place
By Grace Gouin, Creative Director of Appalatch It’s easy to get frustrated and blue when you start paying attention to all of […]
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A World Water Day-Themed Google Chat w/ Michael Kobori, VP of Sustainability, Levi Strauss & Co.
Every Week, TriplePundit takes 30 minutes or so to chat with an interesting leader in the sustainable business movement. These […]
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