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Erin Hooper has woven a narrative about textile workers

As the academic year draws to a close, fashion design students have been busy finalising their end-of-year collections. For her fourth-year project, Erin Hooper not only considered the environment but also the collapse of the Cape Town clothing and textile...

October 14, 2018

Spaces

Architect of Change 1: Robert de Jager followed an organic process

It has been said that Goldilocks would find everything in the right place should she choose to visit House Burnett Prinsloo. By any standard that is fine praise for Robert Jager’s build, a finalist for the sustainable AfriSam-SAIA Awards which...

October 10, 2018

Fashion

What’s the Stitch: Ready to take the vegan challenge to your wardrobe?

‘What’s the Stitch?’ is a new monthly column by Emma Jones-Phillipson about dressing sustainably in our modern age. She’ll pair critical insights into the environmental and social impacts of the fashion industry with useful guides to conscious buying, wearing, and...

October 5, 2018

Opinion

Talking Rubbish: “5 ways I’m cleaning out my life this spring”

Spring has arrived, that time of the year I not only spring clean my house, but spring clean my lifestyle. While I try my best to lead a low waste, sustainable life, it’s impossible to have no impact on the...

October 2, 2018

Features

Meet the woman saving endangered forests from becoming viscose

Nicole Rycroft is one of a growing crew of people who work tirelessly at changing how we impact Earth. Most of her work has focused on protecting ancient and indigenous trees from becoming wood pulp. She does this through the...

September 25, 2018

Features

Q+A: Hanri Taljaard on the slow clothing consumption habits of South African women

With a passion for the natural environment and a fascination with the secret language we all speak through our clothes, Hanri Taljaard is currently knee-deep in a PhD study, focusing on “voluntary simplistic” clothing consumption practices in South Africa. Nadia...

September 20, 2018

Food

Review: The Modern Cook’s Year by Anna Jones

Food is undergoing intense scrutiny. One reason is we are becoming increasingly concerned about our health and what we put into our bodies. Besides the nasty toxins we’ve become aware of, there are increasing rates of heart disease, cancer and...

September 17, 2018

Fashion

Part 2: Extract from Dirty Fashion report: why viscose production needs to transform

When Dirty Fashion was released in June last year, most of us woke up to the horrific production processes of viscose. The Changing Markets Foundation which researched and compiled the report has since established a roadmap to better production processes...

August 28, 2018

Features

This kickass Slovakian sneaker brand pulls at our heartstrings

Shoes aren’t an easy product to make sustainably. Most mainstream mass shoe manufacturing involves toxic glues and plastics and unsustainably-sourced rubber and leather. A few companies have succeeded in making a shoe that is credibly sustainable and looks cool too....

August 17, 2018

Features

Damned if we don’t

Wrapped in post-consumer plastic, Rati Lekalakala imagines being an animal in the same situation. This is not much of a stretch of her imagination: high concentrations of plastic materials have been found blocking the airways and stomachs of hundreds of ...

July 29, 2018

Fashion

Will WWF save the planet by selling one polyester jacket at a time?

You may have seen the World Wildlife Fund’s promoted posts on Facebook and on Instagram. WWF South Africa has launched a technical apparel project in South Africa. I’m a huge fan of innovation in the garment sector and the fact...

July 25, 2018

Food

If you want to eat clean and green, is the future halaal?

When Muslims from India and Pakistan began arriving in the United Kingdom in large numbers in the 1960s, they imported two anxieties common to immigrants: what to eat, and where to pray. The new foreigners, usually men, sought places of...

July 23, 2018

Fashion

Ben Nivison’s new textiles are woven yarns of two cultures

In the Kullu Manali Valley valley lies Bhutti, a small hard-to-access village on the foothills of the Himalayas in Northern India. It’s here you’ll find one of the world’s last hand-weaving societies in the world. And it is here that...

July 19, 2018

Features

Who has pledged to Rethink The Bag this Plastic Free July?

Making very public commitments to give up single-use plastic shopping bags, influencers (including musicians, actors, public servants) reached thousands of people. For Plastic Free July 2018 one person per day pledged to “refuse to buy or accept single-use plastic shopping...

July 10, 2018

Features

Ditch the plastic bag this July and get one of these re-usable shoppers

If you’re pledging to give up single-use plastic shopping bags this Plastic Free July, you’ll be looking for a great shopper. We’ve curated a collection of sustainably-made ones for you. The bag featured in the main image is made in...

June 29, 2018

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Erin Hooper has woven a narrative about textile workers

Architect of Change 1: Robert de Jager followed an organic process

What’s the Stitch: Ready to take the vegan challenge to your wardrobe?

Talking Rubbish: “5 ways I’m cleaning out my life this spring”

Meet the woman saving endangered forests from becoming viscose

Q+A: Hanri Taljaard on the slow clothing consumption habits of South African women

Review: The Modern Cook’s Year by Anna Jones

Part 2: Extract from Dirty Fashion report: why viscose production needs to transform

This kickass Slovakian sneaker brand pulls at our heartstrings

Damned if we don’t

Will WWF save the planet by selling one polyester jacket at a time?

If you want to eat clean and green, is the future halaal?

Ben Nivison’s new textiles are woven yarns of two cultures

Who has pledged to Rethink The Bag this Plastic Free July?

Ditch the plastic bag this July and get one of these re-usable shoppers

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