Shifting the Impact of our Clothing: Tips from the Fibershed Community
By Jess Daniels, Fibershed
If you’re not at the helm of a fashion company, it can be difficult to discern exactly how our individual actions are part of achieving progress and ameliorating the impacts of our second skin. In the Fibershed Clothing Guide, we share how the impact a garment is defined by three key elements.
4 Simple Guidelines from the Fibershed Clothing Guide
By Jess Daniels, Fibershed
Inside our own closet is one place we may begin to make changes that will have lasting impacts on our biosphere, climate and personal health, and for this reason we created the Fibershed Clothing Guide to share a menu of actions and options.
Rooting the Fashion Revolution in the Soil
By Jess Daniels, Fibershed
This year’s Fashion Revolution Week just wrapped up but the movement for transparency, accountability, and shifting the norms of a harmful and wasteful industry is gaining more traction and momentum than ever.
Building the Fashion Revolution
By Jess Daniels, Fibershed
Fashion Revolution is a global movement that demands transparency in the fashion industry. Since its inception three years ago, this grassroots campaign has encouraged us to consider the social and environmental impact of our clothes – going viral on the internet and social networks as a way to engage directly with the brands and companies we get our clothing from and asking them “Who Made My Clothes?”.
Making Clothing with a Local Pedigree
By Jess Daniels, Fibershed
The question “if not now, when?” has pushed many toward a leap of faith. For Emily Cunetto, it simply pushed her across the Bay, from her San Francisco residence to a studio space on the Emeryville/Oakland border.
Knitting by Radius
By Jess Daniels, Fibershed
...“everything you buy, if you think about the effect on the soil, that’s the biggest impact you could ever make.”
Pioneering Modern Natural Dyes
By Jess Daniels, Fibershed
There’s a duality to natural dyeing that Kristine Vejar embraces: the naturalist and plant pigment explorer; the scientist and careful recipe creator.
Cooperatives and the Next Clothing Industry
By Jess Daniels, Fibershed
Last October, the Sustainable Economies Law Center (the SELC) created an event to discuss the opportunities that our local clothing economy can create...