Environmental cost of ‘fast fashion’ is not sustainable

The International Copper Study Group (ICSG) has published October 2021 Copper Bulletin, which provides preliminary copper supply and demand data for the month of July 2021.  In accordance with the data provided by ICSG, the world copper mine production increased marginally by almost 3.6% in the initial seven-month period of the current year. The concentrate production surged higher by around 5.5%, whereas the SX-EW output declined by almost 4.3%.  Chile-the world’s largest copper mine producing country saw its output dip marginally by 1.0%. The output in Peru has increased by 11% over the year. The Indonesian output recorded 61% jump over the previous year, primarily on account of continued ramp up of underground production at the Grasberg mine. Significant production increases were also witnessed in the DRC and Panama.

Sustainability is increasingly becoming a key area for businesses to address and with climate change getting too obvious to ignore, regulators are becoming stricter as well as customers, employees, and investors.

‘Art Making for Earthly Survival’ is a series of workshops and a resulting exhibition curated by Rachy McEwan and supported by GSA Sustainability, GSA Exhibitions and Box Hub.  The workshops aim to help participants question their own practice and ideas by offering future solutions and inspiration to create art in a more ethical, environmental and sustainable way. The workshops on offer range from book-making; to discussions of art practices in community settings; group drawing whilst travelling on the ‘Clockwork Orange’; to gaining inspiration from a guided walk in The Botanics, identifying trees and lichen.  The workshops are led by Vita Lerche, Emma Lawrance, Robert McCormack, and Rachy McEwan & Raya Gray. There will be an opportunity to see work made from the workshops in an exhibition in Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art on 28 & 29 April.

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