The Industry Talk category covers everything you need to know about the sustainable and ethical fashion industry. Brand coverage, innovations, textiles, resource use, lifecycle analysis, blogging business, critiques, business models, and more.
Is Boxed Wine Sustainable? For many sustainability advocates, glass is the gold standard. Endlessly recyclable, it’s a sturdy material that doesn’t degrade like plastic, making it ideal for storing food and drink without fear of leaching chemicals. So it makes sense that many people assume that wine packaged in glass bottles is more sustainable than …
Plastic Bag Bans Don’t Work In 2019, Connecticut implemented legislation to ban plastic bags. For the first two years, retailers were still allowed to provide plastic bags for a fee of 10 cents each. The plan seemed to work at first. I remember watching shoppers juggle wares in their arms and hold them in their …
February 2022 Life Update The last month has been a wild ride. After completing my 21-hour ordination exams the first week of January, we got the heck out of dodge. But not before I got yelled at on the street by a neighboring landlady who decided I was “lazy” because the apartment I live in …
Get Rid of Unwanted Things Responsibly This post was compiled and written by Hannah Theisen, Alice Robertson, and Leah Wise. Any aspiring minimalist or zero-waste living enthusiast will eventually run into the ethical issues with getting rid of stuff. Most of us who are on this lifestyle path haven’t been minimalists or conscious consumers from …
12 Posts from 2021 + Year in Review Instead of doing a roundup on the top posts of the year (because those are usually posts that weren’t published this year!), I thought I would go back through the Archives and share one post from each month of 2021. But first… Year in Review 2021 was …
Originally published in 2017, this post was sponsored by Dignify. Photos provided by Dignify. Shop Kantha Quilts here. A History of Kantha At the thrift shop where I worked, we processed hundreds of pounds of textiles a week by hand, sorting out the good from the bad, the clean from the stained. Inevitably, we were …
Nisolo Launches Sustainability Facts Label Did you know that there was no standardized label for marking nutritional information on food until 1990? While some companies voluntarily listed nutrition facts beginning in the 1970s, they were not required to do so by the federal government. In 1990, the FDA published a proposal for a Nutrition Facts …
Ethical and Sustainable Leather Guide The following post was written by Kasi Martin and was originally published on The Peahen blog in 2015. Choosing leather ethically can be tricky. I’ve deciphered some of the popular options and brands to help you cut through the marketing and get to the truth. I learned these lessons first-hand when my …
December 2021 Life Update Even though I check in and tinker with my blog on a near-daily basis, I feel like it’s been months since I last really said anything. This semester has been a lot. Close family members are dealing with serious chronic illnesses. And yesterday, I took my cat, Wednesday, to the emergency …
Welcome to Fair Trade Month. This post on launching a fair trade business was written by Sangya Giwali, founder of new ethical, artisan-made jewelry company, Blooh, which operates according to fair trade principles. Launching a Fair Trade Business In a world swimming in wasteful and exploitative practices, the promise of businesses operating on fair-trade principles …