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Personal life: This article describes a few sustainable furniture companies. This is useful information, because I have to decorate my dorm room and future homes. One of the brands mentioned is West Elm, which I had no clue used such sustainable practices! It also recommends buying reclaimed furniture off of Etsy.

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Professional life: This is a list of fabrics that are sustainable in how they are grown and processed. This list will be useful for me in the future if I am working in the fashion design process, because I do not want to use harmful fabrics. If I am a buyer, I need to choose clothing made from sustainable fabrics like these.

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Professional life: Sustainable packaging is not something I would have thought about if I am to work for a clothing company. This is an easy way to make a huge impact on the planet, especially in the fashion industry that contributes a lot to waste. I will have to remember this in the future!

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Personal life: This article gives a list of brands that are not only sustainable, but use upcycling. I love the brand Re/Done, which is listed in the article. I think this is a fun, trendy, and unique way to practice sustainability, and I am excited to learn more about these brands.

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Personal life: This website gives a great “master list” of clothing brands that use sustainable practices. Some of them I know of and enjoy their clothing, and others I am excited to look into!

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Personal life: This article gives simple, easy tips on how to start living a sustainable lifestyle. It has tips that I would have never thought about, but will make a huge impact! It also tells you what not to do when just starting out.

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Personal life: I love this article on how to avoid greenwashing. I want to be able to avoid companies that use greenwashing, and this article gave me tips on how to spot them as well as a few examples.

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Professional life: This article from Refinery 29 is about how thrift stores, both online and brick-and-mortar, are becoming more and more popular. Not only do people who have a lower budget like to shop at them, but they are popular among all incomes because they are sustainable. I thought that it was less profitable to own a thrift store, but this article proved me wrong. With their increasing popularity, they seem to be the future of fashion.

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Personal life: I had no clue that apps like this existed! There are so many easy ways to be sustainable in your everyday life, one of them being as easy as changing your search engine to plant trees! Hopefully this will help with the problem of depleting our natural resources.

This is Ecosia. Ecosia is a free app/search engine that plants a tree for every 45 searches. Look,

Ecosia keeps track! I’ve used it for weeks; it works as a good search engine. I still use DuckDuck Go and Safari for some searches, but this is a no effort way to contribute a little when unable to donate time or funds. Use Ecosia!

@harbinger-313

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Professional life: This article is about Zara’s announcement that they plan to be much more sustainable by 2025. With fast fashion being so popular right now, it is good to know that these companies can still be somewhat sustainable. With the future goal of owning my own fashion company, I need to keep in mind that, even if I choose to go into the fast fashion industry, I can still use sustainable practices.

Can Fast Fashion And Sustainability Be Stitched Together?

As a fashion brand, Zara has made a name for itself by democratizing the latest clothing styles for consumers at an affordable price. But the rapid pace of that trend-driven business model, known as “fast fashion,” can come at high environmental and social costs.

Last week, Zara’s parent company, Inditex, announced its plans to grow more sustainable.

The fast-fashion giant pledged that by 2025, all of its eight brands will only use cotton, linen and polyester that’s organic, sustainable or recycled, which is 90% of the raw materials its uses. CEO and executive chairman Pablo Isla said that renewable sources will power 80% of the energy consumed by the conglomerate’s distribution centers, offices and stores. It also plans to transition to zero landfill waste.

It’s a significant step for a company that churns out 500 new designs per week, says Elizabeth L. Cline, the author of two books on the impact of fast fashion.

Read the full story here

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Professional life: I never knew that it was possible to turn complete garbage into clothing! This is something I will have to keep in mind in my future career in fashion, whether I am producing the clothing or selling it. I need to pick brands like ECOALF that are sustainable if I am a buyer or use similar practices if I am in the design process.

D.ISTINTO - FASHION ADVISE

ECOALF, the Spanish company that transforms the garbage, found in the Mediterranean Sea, into clothings. This is great.

This is the future of fashion, conciousness and sustainability. This should be the future of the world!

https://www.instagram.com/ecoalf/

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Personal life: Usually I do not think to go to thrift stores to shop for cute clothes, because I am scared they will not have the brands I like. I have a Buffalo Exchange where I live, though, which I feel like is a more trendy thrift store. I will definitely start shopping there more if I can get a cute outfit like in this post!

Laquesha, 29

“I’m wearing a denim jacket by a brand called Faith Connexion, some soft khakis by Chie Fever, the neon turtle neck is from Pretty Little Thing, and the boots are by Stuart Weitzman; everything bought at Buffalo Exhange in East Village. Lately my style has been heavily influenced by the 90’s cross color movement.”

Mar 31, 2019 ∙ East Village

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Personal life: Who knew you can even recycle markers?! Usually when I have a marker that runs out of ink, I throw it straight in the trash. I now know that I can send old markers to Crayola and they will recycle them! I go through so many markers because I like to color-code my notes when I study, so this is a very useful tip for being sustainable in my personal life.

YOO SPREAD THE WORD PEOPLE

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Personal life: I love to cook in my free time, but I know this can sometimes be a wasteful hobby. I love this tip for re-using cooking water by watering your plants with it. Not only does it not waste the water, but it helps your plants grow. Especially if your plants are growing food, this is a very sustainable way of cooking.

In honor of Earth Day, here’s a sustainability pasta pro-tip from Danielle Nierenberg, President of Food Tank: The next time you make pasta, don’t waste your used cooking water by pouring it down the drain. Instead, let it cool, and use it to water your plants. The starchy H2O will give them a beneficial nutrient boost and help them grow. Just be sure to avoid using cooking water that has been salted or seasoned.

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Personal life: I love this “Buyerarchy of Needs” as an example of how my thought process should be when I need a new item, especially clothing. I can think: Do I already have what I need? Could I borrow something from a friend? Could I upcycle something from the thrift store? My last choice needs to be buying a new product.