March 16, 2022 Performance Days Sets New Key Focus: Carbon Neutrality
Performance Days and Functional Fabric Fair announce that they will devote their next three fairs to the key Focus Topic of Carbon Neutrality...
February 3, 2022 Amazonian Leather
Two recent reports have made a compelling case that Outdoor brands are complicit in the number one cause of Amazon deforestation. Textile Exchange responds that it's past time to clean up leather supply chains....
January 29, 2022 Not All Climate Goals Lead to Net-Zero
According to the Science Based Targets Initiative, some businesses' climate efforts risk being "misguided" or outright "misleading." Its newly launched Net-Zero Standard is meant to help get businesses back on track. With the clock ticking to 2050 and carbon emissions still...
January 26, 2022 Snowsports Industry Gets Powerful Climate Toolbox
Snowsports Industries America (SIA) unveils new ClimateUnited Lab, a free online tool for SIA members to build and execute climate action plans....
January 25, 2022 European Wool for the Win!
Natural, renewable and highly functional: wool is nature-based high tech, and is the perfect insulation material, as demonstrated by lavalan's washable wool wadding. The Bavarian family business uses exclusively traceable, European virgin wool, delivering a contemporary and sustainable alternative to...
January 10, 2022 New Carbon and H20 Footprint Tool by Oeko-Tex
More and more companies have publicly pledged to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. To help them meet this target, Oeko-Tex launches the Impact Calculator....
January 1, 2022 Regenerative Resolution in 2022
For Textile Exchange's Beth Jensen, going beyond simply doing less damage to actually restoring planetary health with Regenerative Agriculture provides a reason to hope in the New Year....
December 16, 2021 Decarbonize or Get Out of the Way in 2022
Suston reaches out to UN High Level Climate Action Champion Nigel Topping, who says that if business leaders want to see their companies survive, they must decarbonize now or retire and make way for the willing....
December 16, 2021 Patagonia Film Spotlights Diminishing Wilderness in the Alps
On December 16, Patagonia released its latest film, "Vanishing Lines," which aims to shine light on the movement to protect the last wild places in the European Alps....