I watched an amusing and disturbing play at my local repertory theater last weekend- “The Guard Will Escort You To Ruff-Ruff”. If you’re in Los Angeles, I highly recommend it and the plays it’s also shown with, before it closes this weekend. More info here. The play is set in the CSR office of a […]
River Blue Shows Us How Our Clothes Affect Rivers
I just saw River Blue, a documentary about how the fashion industry affects rivers in developing countries. It was hard to watch, but it inspired me to contact my favorite brands and ask them how their textiles are made. When NAFTA was passed in 1994, US apparel companies flocked overseas to find cheaper manufacturing, first […]
Sustainable Fashion LA Speaks on TEDxLA Panel
Last week I had the honor of joining filmmaker Andrew Morgan, Eileen Fisher’s Shona Quinn and Reformation’s Kathleen Talbot on a panel moderated by eco-fashion diva Taryn Hipwell. Beyond The Label, a pre-event for next year’s TEDxLA, was a lovely evening, with a great turnout. After the panel we broke into round table discussions on […]
Sustainable Brands 2014 | Burning Man for People Like Us
As in 2013, I am covering Sustainable Brands for CleanTechnica. SB is my favorite sustainability conference. Sure, being branding and marketing focused, it’s more shiny/happy/pretty/glamorous than your typical sustainability conference. But it’s also the one with the most meat. Not the kind you eat, of course, but meaty facts about what some of the largest […]
Economic Influences of the Domestic Clothing Industry on U.S. and African Cotton Markets
Update Earth Day 2017!!!! Ten years have passed since we wrote this paper, and now… What’s changed since we wrote this article in 2007 is that the US cotton industry is shrinking dramatically, as reported here. Partly due to the end of the subsidies we studied in this paper, but also due to shrinking demand. […]
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