Colonialism, the fashion industry and sustainability
Former Lebanese refugee, Celine Semaan, is tackling issues of consumption and sustainability within the fashion industry as it relates to our colonial past.
Source: www.designindaba.com
Former Lebanese refugee, Celine Semaan, is tackling issues of consumption and sustainability within the fashion industry as it relates to our colonial past.
Source: www.designindaba.com
The responsibility for collective health and well being lies not only with local leaders, but also with decision makers at all levels of government, business, the research community and, last but not least, with citizens. We have to change systems, value chains, habits, processes and ourselves.
To celebrate the inauguration of Green Pea, Italy’s first dedicated green retail park, Cristina Celestina of Pianca recently presented Calatea Green, a chair that follows a circular economy model. The piece is a redesign of the company’s Calatea chair, originally developed in 2017, with new, eco-friendly materials and organic aesthetics for a greener version of the classic chair.
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The carbon-intensive production of plastics is on pace to emit more greenhouse gases than coal-fired power plants within this decade, undercutting global efforts to tackle climate change, a report released on Thursday said. The report by Bennington College and Beyond Plastics projected that the plastic industry releases at least 232 million tons of greenhouse gases each year throughout its lifecycle from the drilling for oil and gas to fuel its facilities to incineration of plastic waste. That is the equivalent of 116 coal-fired power plants. “The scale of the plastics industry’s greenhouse gas emissions is staggering, but it’s equally concerning that few people in government or in the business community are even talking about it,” said Judith Enck, a former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator and president of Beyond Plastics. Also, the report found that petrochemical facilities tend to be clustered in just 18 largely low-income and minority communities, where 90% of the pollution occurs.
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