March 3, 2022 Keeping Wool in the Loop
There is a growing consensus that the only path to sustainably maintain current consumption levels in the future is through circularity. Wool is the tailor-made circular fiber....
March 3, 2022 Change requires the entire value chain
General Secretary Arne Strate explains why European Outdoor Group has decided to open to formally include stakeholders from across the value chain....
February 3, 2022 Get outside to design sustainable outdoor gear
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?...
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 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 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 22, 2021 Tecnica’s Ski Boots Recycling Project
Within sustainability circles in the outdoor community, hardgoods producers have by and large been seen as stragglers. Can a recycling program by ski boot producer Tecnica turn over a new leaf for the sector?...
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....