Weekend Reading: Will France Ban Brands From Throwing Out Unsold Clothes?
- by Alden Wicker
- May 11, 2018
Hey readers!
I’m writing to you from Buenos Aires. On Saturday I make the harrowing journey across to hemispheres to Denmark for the Copenhagen Fashion Summit. It’s a grand gathering, and I’m already on a huge Instagram group chat with a bunch of other sustainable fashion enthusiasts about meeting up when we get there, and I feel an epic sustainable shopping trip coming on. After all, I need to switch out my wardrobe from Latin-American-artist-chic to European-minimalist-chic. If you have any tips or recommendations, please comment below!
Meanwhile, my influencer network, Ethical Writers & Creatives, got a lovely writeup in Glamour! And some of my favorite, most hardworking members were included.
Fashion
France wants to ban fashion brands from trashing unsold clothing. | EcoTextile News
What could artisan fashion learn from craft beer’s success story? | The Atlantic
It’s trendy to get rid of your fashion. | NY Times
Travel
Categorize this under “Oh nooooooooo…” Tourism causes three times more emissions than previously thought. | Pacific Standard
Do not talk to me while I’m taking in nature. | FT Weekend via Blendle
Walking or biking to work doesn’t take as long as you would think. | NY Times
East Timor is thinking about cultivating eco-tourism…but will tourism ruin its reefs? | NY Times
America’s urban trees are disappearing. | Pacific Standard
Beauty
If large companies don’t watch out, indie “clean” beauty brands will eat their lunch. | Business of Fashion
Food
Everyone is so into medicinal mushrooms right now. And not just the psychedelic ones. | Fast Company
Humanely killed fish tastes better. | Topic
Microplastics are not just in the oceans. | BBC
Big Ideas
People who believe in climate change are less likely to be eco-friendly in their actions? | Pacific Standard
What ecologists are learning from indigenous people. | Yale Environment 360
