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[Repost] Earth Day Everyday: Tips on How to Celebrate Earth Day #Earthday2015 #Eco #Environment #Ethicalfashion #Sustainable

19 Thursday Mar 2015

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Earthday15As a throwback this Thursday and in honour of earth day which is about a month away, we thought we would dig up this old post to share some thoughts on how you can make Earth day, everyday:

“As we celebrate the upcoming Earth Day, we thought it would be great to look at interesting movement in the environmental space.

Today we thought we would draw up a list of excellent ways to celebrate Earth Day. Here goes:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Perhaps it’s time for some spring cleaning. Go through you old clothes, accessories, and athletic products and consider how you can recycle or reuse products you haven’t used in a while.

Shop Smart: Use reusable bags at grocery stores, shop local, shop ethical, avoid products with packaging that isn’t eco-friendly and shop smart.

Find Green ways to entertain yourself: Instead of going on an energy-sucking treadmill, go for a run outside. Instead of using the gas-guzzling car to go out, consider walking or using public transportation. Make the most of the good weather by doing things green.

Dress in Ethical Clothes and Accessories: Consider the clothes you wear and how they impact the lives of the artisans that produce them and the environment. Buy products made of recycled materials, sustainable fabrics, sustainable production processes and in fair trade conditions. Check out our lines of ethical products at http://shopanthropic.com.”

 

 

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The Slow Fashion Challenge: An Introduction #Ethicalfashion #Slowfashion

25 Friday Jul 2014

Posted by Bay and Harbour in Blog, Ethical Fashion, Ethical Lifestyle, Fashion, Social Entreprise

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8 Pieces of Clothing.

7 Unique Outfits.

7 Days.

The goal of this challenge is simple. To embrace the slow fashion movement by embracing quality instead of quantity, and finding ways to make a few pieces of clothing, a variety of different and diverse outfits.

How?

By focusing on colours, textures, and ethically-made accessories, we will take 8 ordinary garments and turn them into extraordinary outfits.

Stay tuned for our report on The Slow Fashion Challenge (summer edition) and see how we have incorporated pieces from our collections in order to take a simple outfit – and turn it into a head-turner!

What we’ve been talking about…

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Earth Day Everyday: How to Make Earth Day Everyday #Earthmonth #Earthday2013 #Environment

05 Friday Apr 2013

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As we celebrate the upcoming Earth Day, we thought it would be great to look at interesting movement in the environmental space. Stay tuned for our article series titled “Earth Day Everyday” for stories, tips and trends related to sustainability and the environment.

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#Cheap #Clothes and the High Cost We Pay for Them #SocEnt #Fashion #Environment

15 Monday Oct 2012

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A recent article published on CNN.com talks about the high cost we pay for a large majority of the clothing we purchase that is “cheap, trendy, poorly made and assembled in low-wage factories in other countries”

With many North Americas joining the movement to buy local, eat organic, reuse, it is a bit of a paradox that the clothing we own rarely fits this sustainable lifestyle. With a tendency for fashion trends to turnover at a rapid pace, clothing has almost become a disposable good. We buy large amounts of clothing that we wear only once or twice, with no concern for the quality of those goods. We want the latest look at affordable prices.

According to the article: “There are more than 80 billion garments produced around the world today, and according to a study by the UK’s Cambridge University, the industry is creating 70 million tons of waste water as of 2006 in the UK alone.” The fashion industry has a huge environmental impact, not to mention the social impact it has on the lives of the workers that produce these products.

While the author of this article argues that locally made fashion is a possible solution to this issue. I think that our solution, the concept of working with artisans in countries that are already large producers of such products, is as sustainable, if not more beneficial. This solution allows us to rethink the materials we use in the fashion products we buy and sell, the sources they come from, and they methods used to produce them.

Some other cool ideas the article presented were:

  • Some retailers are now accepting returns for worn products (which they then resells as a used product)
  • Consumers taking more responsibility in repairing and caring for their clothes
  • Clothing swaps and refashioning old trends to become new looks
  • Shopping less but spending that money on quality, sustainable products

Most importantly, ethically made products need to provide options that cater to both the mainstream market that craves affordable designs and the luxury market that wants quality. Our collections aim to meet this demand through a wide range of designs at affordable products.

Read the full article here: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/11/living/high-cost-of-fashion/index.html.

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