To make fashion more sustainable, the industry’s underlying structure and supply lines need a major makeover. Yet, despite these obstacles, a few designers–alongside fashion muses like zero waste hero Lauren Singer–are taking zero waste fashion from fiction into the real world.
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The Geography Of Hope Conference is an exceptional biennial literary festival, held every other year in the northern California coastal village of Point Reyes Station, California, is a gathering featuring writers, artists and activists who use their craft to convey the urgency of environmental issues facing the world today. This year’s theme is titled “Women And The Land.”
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Robert Redford — playing The Redwood in our Nature Is Speaking film — sums up the incredible life history of redwood trees, which are older and bigger than most living things on Earth.
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Organic Matters, the fourth installment in NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, explores the relationships between women, nature, and art. Women to Watch is presented every two to three years and is a dynamic collaboration between the museum and participating outreach committees.
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“Eco-fashion is slowly increasing its footprint and influence. As more people become aware of the harsh cost of current manufacturing practices, as well as, availability of more positive options, the switch toward greener processes will hopefully become inevitable. The smaller designers, such as those on FiercelyGreen are able to pivot their supply chain much faster than the big established brands, at the same time their influence is very limited by their size, which is why it is so important to give them visibility because of the green ripple effect they will help to perpetuate in the industry in the future.”
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Lisbon, one of Europe’s most underrated cities, has in recent years been the recipient of an influx of artists, many fleeing Berlin and Paris for cheaper rents. While the expat scene thrives, the global community seems to have overlooked the local talent, which also exists in spades.
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On June 20, 2015, people from over seventy communities across six continents will assemble to revere, renew, and inspire solutions for our precious resource of water. Global Water Dances will take place over a period of 24 hours, all broadcast live online. Dances begin in the Pacific Rim and roll westward through the time zones, encircling the globe.
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While many of us may take it for granted, the planet we live on is the very foundation of all life as we know it. Home to between 10-14 million species of life, we share this planet with billions of others that have an equal stake in maintaining the planet. It is for this reason that many have come to be cautious about the impact we have on many creatures’ natural habitats. Issues such as deforestation and water/food contamination have a significant impact on the quality of life for animals. In many cases, this can become an issue of life or death.
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Have you ever pursued something that you thought you really truly wanted to do, and then you tried it and gave up? And you don’t know why? I have. Many times. My first memory of this is in 4th grade, when I decided that I wanted to learn how to play the guitar. I loved to sing, and I loved music. The guitar spoke to me. It was that simple.
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Remember the first time you saw Inconvenient Truth? It was a game changer for me. So much so that right by the popcorn machine in the lobby of the theatre I decided to do my first podcast program called America the Green to wake us all up. I couldn’t just sit there and do nothing, right? No other film laid out the whole climate change horror like Al’s, until Chasing Ice.
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