12 Fast facts about fashion
We buy clothes every season that we can replace the next without breaking our bank accounts. But this fast fashion comes at a cost to the people making those clothes and to the environment.
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Helsinki Fashion Week walks the green talk this year
A mere babe on the fashion week scene, Helsinki Fashion Week has taken a giant leap into the future. This year the fashion week will be showing 30 sustainable brands in an eco-village environment.
Q&A: SA Fashion Week director Lucilla Booyzen on her visit to Buckingham Palace
Lucilla explains how she took a design created by Clive, in collaboration with House of Thethana, to London.
Q&A: Photographer Mário Macilau on his work and the collapse of the Mozambican trash heap
Mário has focussed his work on environmental issues and the living and working conditions of the most vulnerable people for most of his life. We chatted to him about his most recent work.
Look out for these speakers at Design Indaba 2018
We have combed through the list of Design Indaba speakers looking for those talking directly to sustainability. These are the four speakers we will follow closely.
Last minute Valentine’s Day ideas for sustaining love
We've compiled a list of local, sustainable ideas for you to share with your loved one.
How sustainable is the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa?
During the drought, it is apt to be thinking critically about the sustainability of Cape Town's buildings. The MOCAA is no exception.
If you are vegetarian, have you thought about cows going extinct?
Do you believe that because they are a domestic species it is not as important to lose them as it is to lose pandas or wolves?
Wild about this 100% natural, organic cosmetic brand
This Cape Town brand takes inspiration from African botanicals and traditional beauty remedies.
All at Sea: Meet Three Women Saving Our Ocean
Our oceans are under threat. Be it pollution, destruction of ecosystems, overfishing, ocean warming and acidification, humankind has been damaging the seas. These women are cleaning up the mess.
Biodiversity isn’t just pretty: it future-proofs our world
Ecosystems provide services that support life and here is why we need to protect it.
Everyone in the world should be taxed on their energy footprint
Isn't it time restructure national taxation systems to a collaborative global regime, whereby individuals are charged on the basis of their personal energy footprint?
Sinahko offers opportunity in Langa One Stitch at a Time
Nontuthuzelo Pahlana runs a sewing school in Langa, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, to upskill unemployed people.
Hannerie Visser is designing food for a much drier future
Studio H has been exploring the future of food: the how and what we might be eating if we become more efficient as resources become scarcer. We sat down with the studio's founder to find out more.
Luxury fashion brands lead innovation for a sustainable way
With the funding to innovate and experiment, luxury brands are creating a greener aesthetic.