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Sustainability in the Textile and Garment Industries Collection

Collected by: Cornell University Library

Archived since: May, 2021

Description:

In 2015, The United Nations Launched the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The UN SDGs take a broad view of sustainability; connecting the need to address the environmental causes of climate change to the human cost of things like hunger, inadequate housing, poverty, and equal access to education. All 17 of the SDGs listed by the UN apply to the people and industries connected to textile and garment manufacturing. This collection seeks to document organizations that are working to create more social and environmental sustainability within the textile and garment industries worldwide.

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Title: Adirondack Fibershed

URL: http://adirondackfibershed.weebly.com/

Description: "Established in 2017, Adirondack Fibershed is a member of the Fibershed Affiliate Program. The Fibershed Affiliate Program supports an international grassroots network that promotes the development of regional fiber systems communities, including economic and non-economic growth, in the form of building relationships and new global networks. We work to connect fiber enthusiasts across the Adirondacks and inspire collaborations that result in beautiful artisan products made with local fiber, natural dyes, and local labor. Whether you have been knitting for 40 years, raising sheep for 3 generations, or are just becoming interested in the fiber world, we have something for you. We will be organizing workshops on topics like natural dying, weaving, knitting, and more, and we can't wait to foster more creative connections.

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Austin Fibershed

URL: http://atxfibershed.org/

Description: "We are a study group of the Weavers & Spinners Society of Austin . We will be researching the impact and viability of creating handmade wardrobes and household items from locally sourced fibers, dye, plants and labor. As part of the journey we will create a wardrobe and a selection of home fashions from the locally sourced materials. Our hope is to have an educational exhibit at next years WEST– the West Austin Studio Tour.

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Awaj Foundation

URL: http://awajfoundation.org/

Description: "Awaj Foundation is a grassroots labour rights NGO with over 600,000 worker members across Bangladesh. Through our projects, services, research and advocacy, we aim to empower workers and enable harmonious industrial relations. We particularly focus on supporting women workers, because we believe that leadership from women can transform our society towards greater equity and justice." -- from the website, 2020.10.08

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Mistra Future Fashion

URL: http://mistrafuturefashion.com/

Description: "Mistra future fashion was a research program focusing on circular economy aiming at a future positive fashion industry. The program held a unique system perspective operating crossdisciplinary in a consortium with over 60 partners. Mistra future fashion 2011-2019."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: New Jersey Fibershed

URL: http://njfibershed.com/

Description: "NJ Fibershed is working to create a network among independent fiber farmers raising small flocks of sheep, alpacas, goats, and other fiber animals in the state of New Jersey. Our goal is to promote face-to-face relationships between fiber animals, farmers, and fiber artists within our community.

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Pacific Northwest Fibershed

URL: http://pacific-northwest-fibershed.com/

Description: "Pacific Northwest Fibershed seeks to deepen the sustainable textile conversation by directly connecting the wearer to the biological context of their wardrobe. We support and develop regenerative textile systems that are based in carbon farming practices, regional manufacturing and public education. This transparency empowers wearers, farmers and artisans to enhance ecological balance, interdependent community economies and organic agriculture through soil-to-soil processes." -- from the website, 2019.12.22

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Three Rivers Fibershed

URL: http://threeriversfibershed.com/

Description: "Our Fibershed seeks to be a resource to our fiber community by providing opportunities for connection among farmers and mills, artists and makers, consumers and everyone in between." -- from the website, 2019.12.22

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Artist alliance

URL: http://www.artisanalliance.org/

Description: "The Artisan Alliance provides an open-source library of resources for artisan businesses, social enterprises, and others working in the artisan sector in the United States and across the globe. Founded as a partnership between the Aspen Institute and the US Department of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, the Artisan Alliance has developed a set of tailored resources and a community of more than 240 artisan businesses committed to the sustainable growth of artisan businesses worldwide."-- from the website, 2020.10.08

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Responsibility in Fashion

URL: http://www.responsibilityinfashion.org/

Description: "Responsibility in Fashion is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit bringing together sustainable, conscious, ethical, circular and eco fashion organizations and government programs toward the goal of energizing and bringing innovation to the growing movement toward clean, safe and ethical fashion. "-- from the website, 2020.11.05

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Sustainable Apparel Association

URL: https://apparelcoalition.org/

Description: "The Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s vision is of an apparel, footwear, and textiles industry that produces no unnecessary environmental harm and has a positive impact on the people and communities associated with its activities."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Clean Clothes Campaign

URL: https://cleanclothes.org/

Description: "Clean Clothes Campaign is a global network dedicated to improving working conditions and empowering workers in the global garment and sportswear industries. Since 1989, CCC has worked to ensure that the fundamental rights of workers are respected." -- from the website, 2020.10.09

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Subject:   Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Eco Age

URL: https://eco-age.com/

Description: "We work from the ground up, building responsible practices for our clients and accelerating external engagement around these initiatives. From strategic consultancy all the way through to media relations, corporate reputation and digital storytelling, we combine technical expertise with creativity and innovation."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Title: Ethical Fashion Initiative

URL: https://ethicalfashioninitiative.org/

Description: "Our mission is to work towards sustainable development and create long term impact in the communities in which we operate. Through extensive training and mentorship, we build capacity and enable artisans to produce for the international market."-- from the website, 2020.11.05

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Fashion for Good

URL: https://fashionforgood.com/

Description: "The aim of the Fashion for Good Foundation is to promote and stimulate a sustainable and responsible clothing industry, which means, clothing produced with attention to the impact on people and the environment."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Feather River Fibershed

URL: https://featherriverfibershed.weebly.com/

Description: "The Feather River Fibershed is a regional organization encouraging a conscientious community that supports and connects local fiber producers, artisans and consumers. We heighten public awareness of sustainable textile practices through education, highlighting the abundance of our rural mountain landscape--the plant, animal, and human resources that grace our region" -- from the website, 2019.12.22

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Fibershed

URL: https://fibershed.com/

Description: "The project began in 2010 with a commitment by its founder, Rebecca Burgess, to develop and wear a prototype wardrobe whose dyes, fibers and labor were sourced from a region no larger than 150 miles from the project’s headquarters. Burgess had no expected outcomes from the personal challenge other than to reduce her own ecological footprint and maybe inspire a few others." -- from the website, 2019.12.22

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Fibers of the World

URL: https://fibersoftheworld.com/

Description: "FibersofTheWorld.com is a women-owned enterprise offering products that are natural, eco-friendly, sustainably grown, custom designed and hand-crafted from animal fleece and natural fibers. We are delighted to have a great group of artisans teaming up with us who use sheep, alpaca, llama, goat and angora fiber, as well as hemp, bamboo and silk to produce beautiful clothing and accessories." -- from the website, 2019.12.22

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Hudson Valley Textile Project

URL: https://hvtextileproject.org/

Description: "Together, we decided to take action and develop a regional network of like-minded people in the Hudson River Watershed. The Hudson Valley Textile Project is a community of farmers, dyers, millers, designers, makers, distributors, and retailers who have come together to share their knowledge and resources. We also share a concern about environmental and community impacts of the current mass market fashion trend to quickly-discarded, garments and home goods that are often poorly made, generally with synthetic fibers.

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Labor Behind the Label

URL: https://labourbehindthelabel.org/

Description: "Labour Behind the Label campaigns for garment workers' rights worldwide. We support garment workers' efforts to improve their working conditions and change the fashion industry for the better. We raise awareness, provide information and promote international solidarity between workers and consumers. We represent the Clean Clothes Campaign in the UK."-- from the website, 2020.10.09

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Local Fiber

URL: https://localfiber.org/

Description: "LocalFiber is a community made up of the farmers and makers that value locally produced animal fibers. Together we are a part of a strong local economy." -- from the website, 2020.10.09

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Mountains & Plains Fibershed

URL: https://mountainsandplainsfibershed.org/

Description: "We foster collaboration among textile artists, designers, fiber farmers, processing mills, suppliers, and retail businesses in and around Colorado." -- from the website, 2020.09.03

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Organic Trade Association

URL: https://ota.com/

Description: "As the membership-based business association for organic agriculture and products in North America, we are the leading voice for the organic trade in the United States, representing over 9,500 organic businesses across 50 states."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Piedmont Fibershed

URL: https://piedmontfibershed.org/

Description: "Piedmont Fibershed is a community organization dedicated to building a regional fiber system in the Piedmont of North Carolina centered around local fibers, local dyes, and local labor. We seek to support and develop a regional fiber economy that benefits the environment, workers, and the local economy." -- from the website, 2020.09.03

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Remake

URL: https://remake.world/

Description: "We are a community of designers, IG addicts, feminists, storytellers, and all around fashion aficionados, who believe that fashion can be a force for good. We’re using our purchasing power, our voice, and our creativity to make the invisible women who power the fashion industry visible. We are committed to breaking up with fast fashion and have taken the pledge to buy better, remaking our closets with clothes that respect women and our planet."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Rust Belt Fibershed

URL: https://rustbeltfibershed.com/

Description: "The Rust Belt Fibershed consists of 250 mile radius outside of Cleveland, Ohio including parts of Michigan, southern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and Western New York. It is our goal to build a community that collaboratively supports locally grown textiles in a way that decrease consumption of fast fashion and works to restore the soil. We aspire to connect everyone in all parts of our local fiber system: farmers, fiber processors–from large mills to home spinners, weavers, dyers and fiber artists–to designers, shop owners, consumers, and fiber enthusiast" -- from the website, 2019.12.22

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Southern Appalachia Fibershed

URL: https://safibershed.com/

Description: "The Fibershed Producer Program is a network of farmers, ranchers, designers, sewers, weavers, knitters, felters, spinners, mill owners and natural dyers living and working within an approximate 250 mile radius of Knoxville, Tennessee." -- from the website, 2019.12.22

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: South East New England Fibershed

URL: https://senefibershed.org/

Description: "The Southeastern New England Fibershed comprises Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Our mission is to create a regional fibershed that unites fiber to finished product. From farmer to processor, from financing to cut and sew, we are connecting the dots of the supply chain to bring production back to reinvigorate a once-thriving New England textile industry. We base our geographic radius on the historical textile processing centers of New Bedford, MA, and Providence, RI, both of which have extensive remaining infrastructure, and cover both states with an approximately 100-mile radius." -- from the website, 2020.09.03

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Slow Factory

URL: https://slowfactory.foundation/

Description: "We are a 501c3 public service organization working at the intersection of Climate & Culture; building community and growing global movements through education."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Southern California Fibershed

URL: https://socalfibershed.org/

Description: "The Southern California Fibershed encompasses the region south of San Luis Obispo to San Diego, from the Pacific Coast to the Arizona border. Our Fibershed encourages community building and connections between textile artists, designers, fiber farmers, processing mills, suppliers, and retail businesses. The So Cal Fibershed launched in Summer 2019 and is eager to embrace this wide ranging, committed community. We will be gathering resources, posting and promoting events, and developing economic and artistic opportunities throughout our fiber system." -- from the website, 2020.09.03

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Textile Exchange

URL: https://textileexchange.org/

Description: "Founded as Organic Exchange in 2002, Textile Exchange is a global non-profit organization that works closely with all sectors of the textile supply network. Textile Exchange identifies and shares best practices regarding farming, materials, processing, traceability, and product end-of-life in order to create positive impacts on water, soil, air, animals, and the human population created around the world by the textile industry."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: The New Fashion Initiative

URL: https://thenewfashioninitiative.org/

Description: "A foundation creating interdisaplinary education and communication initiatives to promote circularity, collaboration, and accountability in fashion."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Acadiana Fibershed

URL: https://www.acadianbrowncotton.com/

Description: "The Acadiana Fibershed is dedicated to preserving the Acadian Brown Cotton heirloom seed and donates a portion of all cotton seed grown to the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Cade Farm Seed Bank. We are revitalizing ABC cotton production with farmers who are committed to responsible growing, pursuing organic certification and adhering to the requirements of the State Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Boll Weevil Eradication Commission. The Acadiana Fibershed is preserving the past and creating the future of Southwest Louisiana through our efforts to develop a supply chain that will support a sustainable fashion industry within the French speaking parishes of Southwest Louisiana. The Acadiana Fibershed encompasses twenty two parishes in southwest Louisiana. The area’s name recognizes the region’s historic role as the area in which approximately 3,000 Acadian refugees sought sanctuary after being exiled from present day Nova Scotia in the early 18th century. The time honored traditions of family, self-sufficiency and economic reciprocity remain intact to this day along with the cultivation of Acadian Brown Cotton. The natural brown cotton was used by the early settlers to weave dowry textiles for Cajun brides referred to as L’amour de Maman — a mother’s labor of love." -- from the website, 2020.09.03

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Common Objective

URL: https://www.commonobjective.co/

Description: "Common Objective (CO) is an intelligent business network for the fashion industry. Our technology matches members with the connections and resources they need to succeed - and makes it easier for them to work in the most sustainable way. Our members have a common objective - to build successful businesses, with a positive impact for people and the environment. Our ambition, working in collaboration with our partners, is to take sustainable fashion from niche to norm." -- from the website, 2020.10.08

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Connecticut Fibershed

URL: https://www.ctfibershed.com/

Description: "We are growers, farmers, and artisans with a strong belief in growing a local and sustainable farm to fashion network." -- from the website, 2020.09.03

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Ellen McArthur Foundation

URL: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/

Description: "At the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, we develop and promote the idea of a circular economy. We work with, and inspire, business, academia, policymakers, and institutions to mobilise systems solutions at scale, globally."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Ethical Trade Initiative

URL: https://www.ethicaltrade.org/

Description: "Our member companies, trade unions and voluntary organisations work together to tackle the many complex questions about what steps companies should take to trade ethically, and how to make a positive difference to workers' lives."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Fair Trade Foundation

URL: https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

Description: "The Fairtrade Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation that focuses on four key areas of work in the UK: We license the use of the FAIRTRADE Mark in the UK. We help to grow demand for Fairtrade products and empower producers to sell to traders and retailers. We find new ways of working with our partners to support producer organisations and their networks. We raise public awareness of the need for Fairtrade and the significant role of Fairtrade in making trade fair."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Fair Trade Certified

URL: https://www.fairtradecertified.org/

Description: "We’re leading the charge toward sustainable development and corporate social responsibility by forming fair and honest partnerships across the globe. "-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Fair Trade Federation

URL: https://www.fairtradefederation.org/

Description: "The Fair Trade Federation is a trade association of fair trade enterprises fully committed to equitable and sustainable trading partnerships. We strengthen and support our members in order to grow the global movement of trade that values the health of the planet, and the labor, dignity, and equality of all people."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Fair Wear

URL: https://www.fairwear.org/

Description: "Fair Wear Foundation is a non-profit organisation. We know there’s a better way to make clothes. Our mission is to see a world where the garment industry supports workers in realising their rights to safe, dignified, properly paid employment."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Sustainable development

Title: Fashion Revolution

URL: https://www.fashionrevolution.org/

Description: "OUR VISION. A global fashion industry that conserves and restores the environment and values people over growth and profit."-- from the website, 2020.10.09

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Global Organic Textile Standard

URL: https://www.global-standard.org/

Description: "Our mission is the development, implementation, verification, protection and promotion of the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS). This standard stipulates requirements throughout the supply chain for both ecology and labour conditions in textile and apparel manufacturing using organically produced raw materials. "-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Glow

URL: https://www.glowandsee.com/

Description: "Glow is simply Comet's passion to improve how we purchase, and to enable women from low socio economic backgrounds in the process. In that vein our accessories are fashionable, functional and individually hand crocheted by women in London offering warmth and protection as the collection is light reflective."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Title: New Standards Institute

URL: https://www.newstandardinstitute.org/

Description: "New Standard Institute: A think and do tank using data and the power of citizens to turn the fashion industry into a force for good."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Textile Lab Fibershed

URL: https://www.newyorktextilelab.com/

Description: "The Textile Lab Fibershed links together designers, end users, and local fiber systems to foster a resilient textile economy in New York State. We bring together New York designers with local fiber producers and manufacturers in order to grow an economically diverse, regional textile supply chain. Textile Lab currently operates within a 300-mile radius of NYC, with the goal to shorten the textile supply chain, and bring regionally sourced and processed materials closer to designers so they can create products that add value to our communities and the environment." -- from the website, 2020.09.03

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Clean by Design - National Resources Defense Council

URL: https://www.nrdc.org/resources/clean-design-apparel-manufacturing-and-pollution/

Description: "Clean by Design is an innovative program to use the buying power of multinational corporations as a lever to reduce the environmental impacts of their suppliers abroad. Clean by Design focuses on improving process efficiency to reduce waste and emissions and improve the environment."-- from the website, 2020.11.05

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Center for Sustainable Fashion

URL: https://www.sustainable-fashion.com/about

Description: "Based at London College of Fashion (LCF), we provoke, challenge, and question the status quo in fashion; contributing to a system that recognises its ecological context and honours equity."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Clothing workers Labor and globalization

Title: Sustainable Brooklyn

URL: https://www.sustainablebk.co/

Description: "We provide access and insight to sustainability from the lens of the African diaspora to: 1) address the limitations of the current sustainability movement; and 2) implement holistic strategies that provide regenerative solutions for Black liberation - a fertile foundation upon which to thrive, unencumbered."-- from the website, 2020.11.05

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

Title: Sustainable Fashion Alliance

URL: https://www.sustainablefashionalliance.com/

Description: "Sustainable Fashion Alliance is an online platform and community for sustainable entrepreneurs and creatives."-- from the website, 2020.11.04

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Subject:   Textile industry -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development

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