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When COVID-19 first hit, Siera Gunnett lost her campus job at Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. With her newfound time, she decided to start a business.[...]

Next to the petroleum industry, textiles are the number two contributor to waste and pollution. From sourcing materials to manufacturing, clothing production equates to copious factory runoff into local waterways, toxic chemicals...

Whether you’ve embraced a minimalist lifestyle or adopted a capsule wardrobe with steady basics to get you by, the process of cleaning out the closet leaves you with the big question of finding the most environmentally-friendly...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is known for its beauty, wildlife, starry night skies and amazing hot air balloon rides. Now it’s also becoming infamous for its dunes of discarded fast fashion.[...]

Brazilian sustainable sneaker company Cariuma has released its newest collection of completely vegan and natural footwear. All styles in the fall Pantone collection are made of organic cotton canvas and raw natural rubber...

Did you know that 85% of textiles ends up in landfills? While plenty of environmental data exists to focus on what happens to clothing at the end of its life, Copenhagen-based Son of a Tailor wants to bring awareness to the...

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. Some days you may feel like you’re the only one concerned with what is happening to the planet. But there are a host of scientists,...

This week, major fashion brand Zara announced a pledge to use 100 percent sustainable fabrics by 2025. The company also upped the ante for large-scale sustainable fashion by promising to use 80 percent renewable energy for...

The fashion industry is well-known for wasteful practices in manufacturing, including excessive water consumption and chemical run-off. The fast fashion trend has lead to massive amounts of clothing waste that are not worthy...

Many people remember Lady Gaga’s jaw dropping meat dress, so when you hear of a dress made out of fruit, your mind is not likely to think of the trendy pieces H&M is releasing next week...

Everybody likes the convenience of a free return policy. But what consumers do privately in their home closets — say, ordering two sizes of jeans and returning the one that doesn’t fit — has a growing global impact....

Some of the richest men on the planet got that way on the back's of the poorest. A recent report from Quartz reveals that the fast fashion empire has made the CEOs of Zara, H&M and Uniqlo absurdly wealthy. But that wealth...

We all have clothing in our closet that just sit there taking up space. But what if, instead of buying clothes you'll only wear once, you could just rent them like a Netflix DVD? Rent the Runway Unlimited is launching a...

Cheap clothing is a serious social and environmental problem, but the lure of the $8 shirt is hard to resist. This video from Grist reveals why you need to ditch the fast fashion and will have you agreeing that, "yeah, that’s...

With fashion as cheap as it is these days, most of us have closets full of impulse purchases that we never wear. That kind of mindless consumerism hit its apex in the US yesterday with the infamous Black Friday.  But instead...