How GM Seeds Damage the Environment
Generically Modified Seeds – Your environment’s death-sentence? Source While many are pleased with this invention, GM seeds may have proven to cause more harm than good. While genetically modified seeds: They also: Read more to learn about the negative impact of GM …
How to tackle the greenhouse gas problem of textiles?
You must already be aware of ‘carbon footprint.’ And like the rest of us, you are probably eager to reduce it. Step one: Swap your existing clothes with ones whose greenhouse gas emissions are low. GHG emissions are the basis of the …
7 Major Fibers & Textiles In The World And Their Carbon Footprint
Ever considered how your clothes affect the environment? All clothes are made of fibers, but how we buy, wash and discard them makes all the difference. Unfortunately, about 3% to 6.7% of carbon emissions are caused by the irrational buying of clothes. …
Your tee-shirt’s bloody trail. Explained.
Delighted about the latest cotton t-shirt you bought? Here are three snippets of the t-shirt’s origin: Source Are you feeling as enthusiastic as before? No, right. The cotton industry poses huge downsides to the workers responsible for producing cotton. However, most of …
500 years of textile, and how they’ve shaped fashion today
Our history with textiles started 34,000 years ago with the fibre material flax fibre. And it’s no secret that a lot has changed over the last 34,000 years. Source The last 500 years of the textile industry have been well-catalogued. The history …
