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Pineapple leather-alternative used in Africa to make vegan bags

If you’re interested in innovative solutions, you’ll be interested in Piñatex. Lucky for us, WeAllShareRoots, a small French-South African company, is the first African brand to feature this new fibre. Piñatex is a PETA-certified leather alternative made from pineapple leaves....

June 20, 2018

Features

The T-shirt that keeps plastic bottles out of the ocean

Update: Since this article was published, Into The Green has closed. Roxanne and Stefan have referred us to a colleague for a similar offering Fashion labels across the world, including G-Star Raw, H&M, Gucci, Adidas and North Face, are using fabric made...

June 12, 2018

Features

Designer Porky Hefer’s Endangered works invite a weep and a cuddle

South African designer Porky Hefer’s new artworks depict a kingdom of giant soft toys. Called Endangered, the collection will make you weep. The day before the sculptures were shipped off to Switzerland to be exhibited, a group of journalists were...

June 4, 2018

Opinion

Talking Rubbish: “The more I refuse, the more plastic I find to give up”

Welcome to Twyg, Sarah Robyn Farrell! Talking Rubbish is Sarah’s new monthly column about living as lightly as she possibly can. She writes about the trials and tribulations of reducing, recycling and refusing, and of finding ways to lessen her carbon...

June 4, 2018

Features

Message in a bottle: Thirza Schaap makes plastic ocean art that is both beautiful and scary

When you walk along the Atlantic coast’s sandy white beaches in Cape Town, it’s easy to be distracted by the startling magnificence of the scenery. The ice blue waves crash down onto beaches and smash into black brown rocks. On...

June 3, 2018

Features

Aaniyah Omardien: We do beach cleanups to help reduce and eliminate single-use plastic

Not far from where she does new moon beach cleanups in Muizenberg, Aaniyah Omardien spent her happiest times as a child. “On hot days, my mother would pack a picnic supper and we’d go to Dalebrook tidal pool in Kalk...

June 1, 2018

Fashion

Should fashion retailers ban mohair?

For anyone with a modicum of respect for life, it is upsetting to watch the PETA video about mohair farming in South Africa. The sound and visuals of goats in distress are powerful and emotive. The video makes a call for...

May 27, 2018

Fashion

4 Fashion activists tell us why we should care about our clothes all year round

Fashion Revolution week has been and gone. But, that doesn’t mean we should forget about what the campaign is all about. A key aim of the Fashion Revolution is to keep asking #WhomadeYourClothes? throughout the year. We asked four South...

May 11, 2018

Fashion

How to find a puffer jacket that doesn’t warm the Earth

A good winter coat is an investment, and puffer jackets are a timeless classic that speak to the mountaineering, outdoor lifestyle of Patagonia and Kathmandu, whose names alone evoke wintry wildernesses and wild geese in flight. If you’re looking to...

May 8, 2018

Features

Ring of truth: the Smiths don’t throw anything away

Carin Smith, a freelancer in the creative industry, does a “ little bit everything”. She’s a crafter, stylist, painter, illustrator, window display-maker, paper-flower artist and occasionally she hosts workshops. Recently she and her brother, Norman, formed Next of Kin and...

May 3, 2018

Features

Bolt Threads makes a new “leather” from mushroom roots

You’ll remember Bolt Threads from a striking yellow dress designed by Stella McCartney last year. She used a spider silk grown in Bolt Threads’ laboratory. The fabric innovators this week introduced the world to its second new-generation material. Called Mylo,...

April 19, 2018

All at Sea: Meet Three Women Saving Our Ocean

Opinion

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.

January 22, 2018

Biodiversity isn’t just pretty: it future-proofs our world

Opinion

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.

January 21, 2018

Everyone in the world should be taxed on their energy footprint

Opinion

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?

January 18, 2018

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Pineapple leather-alternative used in Africa to make vegan bags

The T-shirt that keeps plastic bottles out of the ocean

Designer Porky Hefer’s Endangered works invite a weep and a cuddle

Talking Rubbish: “The more I refuse, the more plastic I find to give up”

Message in a bottle: Thirza Schaap makes plastic ocean art that is both beautiful and scary

Aaniyah Omardien: We do beach cleanups to help reduce and eliminate single-use plastic

Should fashion retailers ban mohair?

4 Fashion activists tell us why we should care about our clothes all year round

How to find a puffer jacket that doesn’t warm the Earth

Ring of truth: the Smiths don’t throw anything away

Bolt Threads makes a new “leather” from mushroom roots

All at Sea: Meet Three Women Saving Our Ocean

Biodiversity isn’t just pretty: it future-proofs our world

Everyone in the world should be taxed on their energy footprint

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