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Report: Overhaul of Paper, Textile Industries Can Halt Climate, Extinction Crisis in a Decade
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - Canopy’s ‘Pulp Thriller’ outlines a plan to save the world’s forests and climate by replacing 50% of forest fiber from pulp manufacturing with next-generation, alternative fibers such as agricultural residues and waste cotton.
Collaboration: A Catalyst for Cutting-Edge Change
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - It takes a village of visionaries and specialists to galvanize innovative ideas and bring them to fruition. In a recent webinar, Shaw examined a case study in organizations coming together to take a “people-centric approach to sustainability.”
Why Outsourcing Customer Service Kills Purpose-Driven Brands
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - In 2013, TOMS made a terrible mistake: We outsourced Customer Service. If you’re building a purpose-driven business and considering a major “cost-cutting” decision, please learn from our mistakes. The “soul” of your brand may be at stake!
Give More, and Better, This Season: The 2019 SB Holiday Gift Guide
WASTE NOT - What better way to celebrate and participate in the season of giving than with gifts that truly keep on giving? Here are just a few of our favorite discoveries this year of products we'd be thrilled to give and receive.
New Retail Platforms Aim to Take Waste Out of Online Clothes Shopping
WASTE NOT - As we enter the season of giving — and the season of returns — two new, next-gen online retailers aim to address the rampant clothing waste inherent in e-commerce; and reward users for donating their used, unwanted clothing.
The Biosphere’s Guide to Foolproofing Sustainability, Part 6: Function Over Form
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Sustainability experts for decades have been exhorting managers to focus more on the function their products deliver and less on the product itself. Biosphere Rule #5, Function Over Form, is focused on fulfilling customers’ functional needs in ways that sustain the value cycle.
Can Being Climate Neutral Become the New Normal?
WALKING THE TALK - Gold Standard’s Sarah Leugers recently chatted with entrepreneurial leaders at Allbirds and Peak Design to discuss their climate-neutral commitments and the value this creates for their brands.
Trending: Building Regenerative Fashion Supply Chains, from the Ground Up
SUPPLY CHAIN - A new partnership for Timberland aims to create sustainable leather supply chain; while inclusive apparel brand Everybody & Everyone aims to create better fashion from raw materials to end use.
As REI Prepares to #OptOutside for 5th Year, CEO Says It’s Not Enough
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - Outdoor retailer unveils aggressive, new sustainability commitments around waste and eliminating unnecessary packaging; urges employees, business leaders and consumers to “opt to act” on waste.
Purpose at Work: How Wrangler Is Creating the Next Generation of Sustainable Fashion
SUPPLY CHAIN - Wrangler is taking big steps to achieve sustainability. By tackling the industry’s biggest challenges, the jeans giant is carving out a competitive advantage and helping other apparel makers improve industry practices.
DuPont-Stella McCartney Partnership Yields World’s First Bio-based Faux Fur
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - The pioneer in sustainable luxury apparel worked with DuPont Biomaterials and Ecopel to create the next generation of luxurious alternatives to fur, resulting in a sustainable faux fur made with Sorona® bio-based fibers.
Trending: Collaborations Fostering Next-Gen Solutions for Coffee Cups, Paper Packaging
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - Environmental NGO Canopy rallies apparel brands around better paper packaging; and six graduates of the NextGen Circular Business Accelerator prepare to bring their their sustainable coffee cup solutions to market.
Mastercard, Clothing Giants Partner to Help Garment Workers Secure Financial Futures
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - By partnering with companies with labor-intensive supply chains, Mastercard is creating digital solutions to give workers more control and transparency over their earnings and savings.
Good Fashion Fund Seeks Sustainable, Scalable Supply Chain Solutions
SUPPLY CHAIN - If we are to really shift the textile industry from one that is harming workers, local communities and the environment to one that is circular and sustainable, scalable solutions will be necessary.
Meet the Latest 12 Startups Set to Change Fashion as We Know it
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Innovations in garment fitting, recycling, intelligent machinery and a virtual garment marketplace are among the 12 new innovations joining the latest Fashion for Good-Plug and Play Accelerator Programme.
LENZING™ fibers are fully biodegradable in water, soil and compost
PRESS RELEASE - The Lenzing Group received confirmation of the full biodegradability of its fibers in fresh water by the independent research laboratory Organic Waste Systems (OWS).
As Amazon Burns, VF Corp Says No to Brazilian Leather
WALKING THE TALK - As fires continue to ravage parts of the Amazon, the apparel giant says no more leather from Brazil until “we have the confidence and assurance that the materials used in our products do not contribute to environmental harm in the country.”
32 Fashion, Textile Giants Make Pact to Transform Fashion Industry
COLLABORATION - The companies have signed a Fashion Pact, committing to practical targets together in climate, biodiversity and oceans. The Pact will be presented to heads of state during the G7 meeting this weekend in Biarritz.
Clothing Giants Join Forces to Fight Gender-Based Violence in African Factories
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - Levi Strauss, The Children’s Place and Kontoor Brands have launched a pilot program aimed at ending gender-based harassment at five factories owned and operated by supplier Nien Hsing Textile Co., in Lesotho.
Partnerships, Education Helping Braskem Pave Way Toward a Circular Future
COLLABORATION - With dedication to research, investment in technology and partnerships, Braskem has been transforming the plastics value chain.
