January 15, 2018 Responsible Wool Standard – a Safe Solution?
Can the Responsible Wool Standard guarantee that the sheep have been treated responsibly and the land is managed in a sustainable way?...
January 15, 2018 The Dust Settles on PETA’s Wool Exposé
In 2015, video footage showing the maltreatment of sheep in Argentina went viral, with PETA accusing the network Ovis 21. Suston’s reporter Karen Hensel interviews the founder Ricardo Fenton....
January 10, 2018 Fully Transparent
AKU Bellamont Plus has recently been awarded the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) following rigorous calculation involving all partners along the entire supply chain....
January 10, 2018 From Sheep to Shop
With over 150 years’ experience manufacturing wool clothing, Devold of Norway views wool sourcing as a key to quality. In 2016, the company decided to begin buying merino wool direct from selected sheep farms – and to pay them a...
January 10, 2018 Road to Ethical Wool
Since 2009, Fjällräven has been developing its 100% traceable down scheme known as the Down Promise, today considered to be among the best in the outdoor industry. Now they want to find a similar solution for wool....
January 10, 2018 A Look Inside Icebreaker
Transparency encourages scrutiny and accountability. Icebreaker, the natural performance clothing company, champions radical transparency with the launch of its inaugural Transparency Report. The journey made by clothes remains largely unseen. They may have started life in a field and then travelled...
January 10, 2018 A Sustainable Craft
“Think global, act local.” For Swedish glove manufacturer LillSport, this means building an environmentally adapted tannery and starting a solar-powered glove factory with their partners in Ethiopia....
January 10, 2018 The Natural Promise
With the Ortovox Wool Promise, the German mountaineering brand is challenging the industry’s standards for an ethically responsible sourcing of Merino wool – while making friends on the other side of the globe....
January 10, 2018 From the Mountains, for the Mountains
Mountaineering specialist Salewa combines wool from the Tyrolean mountain sheep with modern Celliant technology and utilizes a highly functional natural fiber harvested by local mountain farmers. South Tyrolean mountain sheep wool can be found in many winter jackets made by the...
November 19, 2017 Dirty Denim Getting Cleaner?
Canadian river activist Mark Angelo has paddled waterways all over the world for decades. In River Blue, a new featurelength documentary, he returns to rivers on several continents and finds pollution on an alarming scale. The textile industry, and denim...