Buying outdoor clothing that proves to be unsuitable for the outdoors is not sustainable. The Hohenstein Performance Index enables an objective assessment of the suitability of textiles for their planned use even before buying them....
Hazardous highly fluorinated substances or PFAS, are being phased out, but it's proving to be a job easier said than done. Lisa Skedung, co-editor of the recently released PFAS Substitution Guide, shares how to put an end to them....
The outdoor industry’s leading tool for measuring its environmental impacts is under fire. Higg's Senior VP of Market Impact, Del Hudson, responds to the recent controversy and critique surrounding the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (MSI)....
Suston's Editor-in-chief Gabriel Arthur reflects on what it takes to design a sustainable product: a degree, or personal, dirty, knee-deep experience in the outdoors?...
2021 Sustainability Achievement Award recipient - it looks like the early bird really does get the worm. Suston meets Earlybird Skis' founder Hanno Schwab to get the dirt on why the rest of the ski industry still hasn't woken up....
A recent report on the ski industry asked the tough questions to find there are (almost) no sustainable skis and that good ski or bad, they all end up in the same fiery inferno....
Nature continues to provoke and inspire ECCO’s researchers who have developed DriTan™, an innovative technology that drastically reduces the amount of water needed to tan leathers....
European Outdoor Group general secretary Arne Strait explains that for the industry to move towards a sustainable future, it must first identify its common ground....
New tools and continued consumer pressure is seeing product traceability and supply chain transparency more popular than ever, according to report....
Previously renowned for its steep price tag and as a go-to target of animal rights protests, the luxury performance brand Canada Goose’s first sustainability report demonstrates that a radical sustainable and ethical brand redesign is already well underway....
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