Are you just starting to learn about fast fashion? Do you want to dive deeper into how fashion, sustainability, ethics and economics are connected? No matter where you stand, in this list you’ll find at least one ideal sustainable fashion book for you. SHARE Some of the links included in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through them, we will earn a small commission at no additional cost for you. Non-fiction books on sustainable fashion are one of the main reasons why we have this platform today. There are so many brilliant communicators and activists that we should tha ..read more

A wee look into the wasteful habits that were handed down through generations of an Irish family and the things we’re not doing too bad either. SHARE As a child, you learn about life through your parents. You listen if they tell you not to stick your hand in the fire. Because that’s good advice. And when your mother barks at you: “not to leave the lights on!” for the umpteenth time, you figure there must be a good reason for this order, so you follow suit (sometimes).  Most of the things we learn from our family are incredibly valuable, make us the people we are today and keep us safe. H ..read more

SHARE The food industry is one of the most important and complex industries in the world. It’s responsible for producing and delivering food to billions of people each day, but unfortunately, it has a massive environmental impact. That’s why more and more people are choosing to buy only from brands with sustainable food certifications. This article will walk you through some of the most common sustainable certifications that exist for the food industry in order to help you make smart, sustainable eating choices. Sustainable Food Certifications While the term “sustainable food” is often used t ..read more

From carbon emissions to water pollution, the fashion industry is famously bad for the environment. Many of us are trying to buy more sustainable clothing, but it can be nearly impossible to actually figure out whether a brand is truly better for the environment. From greenwashing tactics to simply not knowing what sustainable fashion really means, the simple act of buying an eco-friendly t-shirt can become tricky pretty quickly. This article will walk you through sustainable fashion labels to help you distinguish between truly sustainable brands and the fakers. Sustainable Clothing Certifica ..read more

SHARE We live in a society where our broken and unwanted goods are thrown away as easily as they’re replaced. Our clothes alone produce an average of 17 million tons of landfill waste per year, and this number is only growing. That doesn’t even take into consideration all of the waste generated from producing clothes! Our environment is continually overwhelmed with waste, resource consumption, and production, and it’s becoming increasingly obvious that we need a new system. The circular economy concept hopes to fix this cycle of waste-and-replace with one that reuses and recycles to the full e ..read more

SHARE On this corner of the interwebs, we focus on the environmental side of sustainability, and on how to solve this climate mess we’re in. But we are also aware that we can’t fix anything if we don’t address many other problems that seem to have no direct link to climate at first sight. Because climate change has a bunch of rather unpleasant roommates. Some are quite predictable, including food scarcity and poverty, and others might be a bit more unexpected, like gender inequality, lack of access to education and illiteracy. The issue here is that society, economy and environment have a ver ..read more

SHARE Have you ever asked yourself how green your blue jeans are? Something I didn’t know before I got into sustainable fashion and made a habit of reading the tags on my clothes was that denim is made of cotton. And I definitely had no idea about how bad our jeans are for the planet. On average, producing a pair of jeans requires 7,500 liters of water. Mind = blown. Probably our good old trusty jeans are the clothes in our wardrobes we wear the most and for the longest time (given that they’re true denim and not some synthetic substitute). They already have a huge potential to become slow fa ..read more

SHARE You already know that your fashion choices can really have an impact on Mama Earth. You can create your perfect green wardrobe by shopping second hand, renting your clothes or swapping them, you decide. But there’ll always be one more thing dictating whether your clothes are eco or not: the fabric they’re made of. There’s no such thing as a perfectly sustainable wonder-fabric. Anything we buy is going to have a list of pros and cons, so the best thing we can do is make reading tags a habit and really understand what they say. It kinda sucks that we, as consumers, have to always think th ..read more

When I was given a half’baked definition of minimalism for the first time, I…wasn’t convinced. Are you telling me that if I want to minimize my life I need to own less than 15 pieces of clothing including shoes, get my books exclusively from the library, and get rid of my childhood knick-knacks? Well, that’s a problem because I definitely own more than 15 pairs of shoes (shame on me), I absolutely love writing on books as I read them, and I would never in a million years get rid of my teddy bears and useless little trinkets. Did you think that minimalism was about that, too? Turns out minim ..read more

Did you know that a load laundry full of synthetic clothes creates between 100,000 and 700,000 microfibers? And did you know that more than 60% of the clothes we own are synthetic? And, you guessed it, right now most swimwear is made of virgin synthetic fibers. Until the 1940s, swimwear was commonly made of wool-based materials, which, as you can imagine, weren’t the most practical option to go for a dip and lounge around the beach. That sure is a fun fact, but it can’t be used as a strong argument to defend the use of a non-synthetic material such as wool in swimwear. Just try to imagine t ..read more