最佳Climateaction播客 (2024)

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Greater Farallones & Cordell Bank Marine Sanctuaries' Superintendent Maria Brown on NOAA's critical operations in these marine sanctuaries - why it is important now and for our future. 49:37

3d ago49:37

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Superintendent Maria Brown has been with NOAA for more than two decades and shares her background and responsibilities with the Cordell Bank and the Greater Farallones, and how our waters are protected along the Northern California coast, from San Mateo County past the Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area, all the way North to Mancheste…

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Eben Schwartz Marine Debris Mgr. for the California Coastal Commission Talks About Coastal Cleanup Day 2024 & What Can Be Done About Plastics in our World 53:05

9d ago53:05

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The CA Coastal Commission is charged with protection and regulation of the state’s 1,100-mile coastline, and Eben has served for 24 years as the technical expert for the agency, advising state and local governments, non-profit organizations, and members of industry on actions and programs that can reduce the causes of marine debris, especially plas…

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Tim Bray President Audubon Society Mendocino Coast CA - Birds: Their World on Our Coast & How to See Them 53:50

17d ago53:50

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The mission of the Mendocino Coast Audubon Society is to help people appreciate and enjoy native birds, and to conserve and restore local ecosystems for the benefit of native birds and other wildlife. President Tim Brey talks about the work they do, and the programs they offer for observing birds and other wildlife here on our coast, and the oftent…

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Howie Garrett, Founder Orca Network - How They Raise Awareness & Protections for Whales 53:22

24d ago53:22

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Howie talks with Resilient Earth Radio about how they got started, what their scope is, and to keep an eye out for a new documentary about the Snake River in which he participates. He will be presenting on the next annual Ocean Life Symposium Friday October 18 (airs live 9am-2pm Pacific on both public radio and YouTube) which is produced by the pro…

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Aeon for Ocean with Minnesota's Young Aeon Bashir- Helping Inlanders & Students Learn About the Importance of Our Oceans! 46:32

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Aeon Bashir talks with Resilient Earth about how they are helping our planet from inland Minnesota, USA. Recorded live on KGUA public radio July 19, 2024. Aeon for Ocean was founded by Aeon, a 7-year-old, to empower his peers to protect the ocean and this beautiful planet. Aeon has been passionate about marine life since he was 2 years old. He is a…

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Happywhale! Co-Founder Ted Cheeseman Shares How Whale Identification Helps Our Planet 45:04

1M ago45:04

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In this episode and radio show, we talk with Ted Cheeseman, founder of Happywhale, an organization that engages citizen scientists to help identify individual marine mammals, for fun and for science. Their mission is to increase global understanding and caring for marine environments and to make it easy and rewarding for the public to participate i…

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"Sounds in the Sea" Michael Stocker (Ocean Conservation Research) The Impact of "Human Generated" Sound on Marine Life 53:23

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In this episode we talk with Michael Stocker about the impact sounds in our oceans have on all marine life (including low to mid-frequency sonar, shipping traffic, and blasting). Michael is founding director of Ocean Conservation Research (Sound Science Serving the Sea), where he uses his fluency in bio-acoustics to explore the impacts of noise on …

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Short Intro for Episode 3 - Blue Frontier Campaign & Rising Tide - The Ocean Podcast 1:45

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This gives you a short overview of episode 3! https://inlandoceancoalition.org/rising_tide_podcast/ Send us a text KGUA Public Radio Sonoma & Mendocino CA KGUA 88.3FM is an independent public media station located in Gualala, CA on the Northern CA coast. Planet Centric Media (non-profit) Media production company promoting and creating community uni…

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Hear how they help! Blue Frontier's David Helvarg Rising Tide - The Ocean Podcast & Natasha Benjamin Filmmaker Sequoias of the Sea 54:51

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In this episode, meet American award-winning journalist David Helvarg & Natasha Benjamin of the Ocean conservation and policy group, Blue Frontier in the San Francisco Bay Area and hosts of Rising Tide, The Ocean Podcast. David is an Award-winning American journalist, author, and an environmental activist. Natasha is a Peabody-award winning filmmak…

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Environmental Hero Captain Paul Watson Facing Possible Life Sentence - A radio interview with Lamya Essemlali President Sea Shepherd France + Rising Tide's 2023 podcast with Captain Paul Watson 1:00:00

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Welcome to the first episode of RER. This is an interview we did on July 26th with the President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in France, Lamya Essemlali about the July 21st arrest in Nuuk Greenland of Captain Paul Watson, Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, co-founder of Greenpeace, and star of Whale Wars (who recently has…

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Deep Sea Mining - Richard Charter, Sr. Fellow of the Ocean Foundation, about their documentary DEFEND THE DEEP with Dr. Sylvia Earle 53:21

2M ago53:21

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In Episode 2, we talk with Richard Charter about the Ocean Foundation documentary DEFEND THE DEEP about the pending perils of deep sea mining. Deep seabed mining (DSM) is a potential commercial industry attempting to mine mineral deposits from the seafloor, in the hopes of extracting commercially valuable minerals such as manganese, copper, cobalt,…

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Dr. Jennifer Hinton Thinks Not-for-Profit Business Models Can Help Address The Problems of Fast Fashion. 53:25

6M ago53:25

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Is our current for-profit economic model a root cause of many of today's sustainability challenges generally, and specifically in apparel and fashion? Dr. Jennifer Hinton, author and Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at University of Lund, has concluded so. She studies how societies relate to profit and how th…

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: For Ken Pucker, circularity is just another win-win fantasy & distraction for the fashion industry. 1:02:48

1+ y ago1:02:48

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Ken Pucker, former Timberland COO and current Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, recently published a series of pieces critiquing the circular agenda for fashion. In this content rich interview, Ken explains the history of how market-led voluntary solutions became the norm and the rise of what he calls Sustainability In…

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It's Possible Podcast: Episode 5 | The Future of Food 31:07

1+ y ago31:07

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What’s for dinner? On a planet wracked by rising seas, disappearing biodiversity, and hotter temperatures, that’s a tough question to answer. The way we produce, eat and waste food is one of the largest drivers of climate change globally, with food production responsible for a whopping one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s also the primary dr…

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It’s Possible Podcast: Unpacking the Climate Emergency 37:14

2y ago37:14

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With the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 set to begin in just a few days, this episode of our It’s Possible podcast sets out to answer three key questions about the climate emergency: how did we get here, what does it mean and what can we do to change course? The first half of the podcast explores the latest science and explains why the world is…

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It's Possible Podcast: Episode 3 52:07

2+ y ago52:07

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Thirty years ago last month, the text of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted. This was a significant milestone because it solidified a collective commitment from countries around the world to tackle climate change, together. It was a recognition that climate change was a global problem that required a global soluti…

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HOT OFF THE PRESS: Climate & The 1 Trillion Dollar Question 58:35

2+ y ago58:35

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Now that climate action has rapidly moved to the top of the apparel industry's agenda, it is crucial that the industry moves from intention to action - and fast. The latest analysis indicates what we need to do, but the 1 trillion dollar question is how much capital will be required to do it. Enter the Apparel Impact Institute (AII) and Fashion for…

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It’s Possible: Episode 2 With Patricia Espinosa 25:52

2+ y ago25:52

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Patricia Espinosa is the Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, with perhaps one of the toughest jobs in the world. She is responsible for steering 197 countries toward tackling the greatest challenge facing humanity. No small task. In this episode, we sat down with Ms. Espinosa to look back at what the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) acco…

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Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison 38:01

3y ago38:01

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An astronaut’s first mission is to travel to space, do research and return home safely. At UN Climate Change, we believe that, their second most important mission is to tell their story and inspire the 0.000001 per cent of the world population who won't have the opportunity to see and experience that extraordinary journey. That is the reason why we…

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HOT OFF THE PRESS: Fashion is endangering our forests. A new report from Canopy weighs in on what we need to do about it. 1:11:53

4y ago1:11:53

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Forests play a crucial role in promoting biodiversity, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and supporting livelihoods, especially in poorer countries. But because wood is the basis for so many of our products, the pressure to exploit forests, usually in unsustainable ways, continues to increase. What does this have to do with the fashion in…

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HOT OFF THE PRESS: Are the Sustainable Apparel Coalition and the HIGG tools making a meaningful difference? A new report weighs in. 53:26

4y ago53:26

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It's been nearly a decade since Patagonia, Walmart and a number of other brands, retailers, manufacturers and NGOs established the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), an innovative industry collaboration. As the coalition's website states, its vision is "an apparel, footwear, and textiles industry that produces no unnecessary environmental harm an…

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DEBATE: Part 2 - A proposed Swedish chemical tax on textiles - is this a case study in great government leadership or political greenwash? 52:10

4y ago52:10

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Sweden has a reputation for being a sustainability leader in many areas, so you can imagine how curious we were to learn about a newish proposal from the current Swedish government for a chemical tax on textiles. The proposal was recently made available to stakeholders for comment, and of course, a robust debate has ensued. Is this proposal, as pre…

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DEBATE: Part 1 - A proposed Swedish chemical tax on textiles - is this a case study in great government leadership or political greenwash? 1:19:55

4y ago1:19:55

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Sweden has a reputation for being a sustainability leader in many areas, so you can imagine how curious we were to learn about a newish proposal from the current Swedish government for a chemical tax on textiles. The proposal was recently made available to stakeholders for comment, and of course, a robust debate has ensued. Is this proposal, as pre…

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Sustainable investment expert Sasja Beslik thinks the fashion industry is a very poor performer and possibly a stranded asset. 56:59

4y ago56:59

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Sasja Beslik, Head of Sustainable Finance Development at J Safra Sarasin, fled Bosnia when he was 18 to escape the war. He ended up in Sweden and today spends his time leveraging the power of the financial sector to improve the world. He is particularly interested in the fashion industry's impact on people and has recently attracted attention for h…

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MAKE YOUR CASE: Phil Patterson believes the way we use chemicals in the textiles industry is broken and here is his plan to change it! 26:32

4y ago26:32

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Phil Patterson, Managing Director at Colour Connections, has been working at the intersection between the textile industry and influential retail brands for over twenty years, and after some recent soul-searching he had an epiphany. He has come to the conclusion that the current way we use and dispose of chemicals is extremely wasteful and will not…

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FACT OR FICTION: Alden Wicker and Sandra Roos think the fashion industry has a misinformation problem... do you agree? 40:41

4y ago40:41

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In this episode we continue to explore the most commonly repeated "factoids" in fashion and sustainability in order to determine whether they are substantive and useful. As a reminder, a "factoid" is information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact. During Stockholm Fashion Week, Mike spoke with Alden Wicker, free…

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Femke Groothuis argues that tax reform is the best way to transform the apparel industry at the scale and pace required. 50:27

4+ y ago50:27

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You've heard it before: The global environmental challenges we face are daunting and time sensitive. If we want to avoid catastrophic tipping points, we need to move quickly and ambitiously. If we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) we need to invest trillions of dollars. And so we scratch our heads and wonder if the actions we…

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LEADING CHANGE: What can a new psychology of climate action teach us about being better change agents? 54:30

4+ y ago54:30

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As a listener of Big Closets Small Planet, you are likely interested and engaged in changing the apparel industry. So for those of you who are keen to strengthen your change agent skills, we are introducing a new segment called Leading Change. In this first episode we are joined by Per Espen Stoknes who is that rare combination of thinker and doer.…

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INDUSTRY UPDATE: Circular business models, like clothing resale and subscription rental, are taking off - but can they ever fully replace today's retail models and deliver the radical sustainability improvements ... 56:22

4+ y ago56:22

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Experts and practitioners agree that simply improving upon today's take-make-waste linear business models will not ensure the apparel industry can operate within the planet's ecological boundaries. Instead, a new circular economy is needed and thus new circular business models. Circular business models, like resale and rental, are not actually new.…

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FACT OR FICTION: Does the apparel industry really create more greenhouse gases than flights and shipping combined? 33:40

4+ y ago33:40

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In this new segment we will explore commonly repeated "factoids" in order to determine whether they are substantive and useful. Perhaps you have heard the statement that the production and use of clothing creates more climate impact than that of flights and shipping combined? A range of organisations - including the United Nations - have referred t…

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INDUSTRY UPDATE: COVID-19 - Are millions of workers at risk? Will Bangladesh ever be the same? 43:02

4+ y ago43:02

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The impacts of the corona virus on the apparel sector have been fast and furious. We are all affected, but millions of low-wage garment workers are facing a potentially catastrophic situation. In this episode we talk to a number of experts and union representatives to better understand what is happening on the ground, what responsibility buyers hav…

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INSPIRING INNOVATION: Is digital clothing the future of fashion and a solution to overconsumption? 31:02

4+ y ago31:02

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The Fabricant, a digital fashion house, recently sold a piece of digital clothing - clothing that is only available in digital environments - for over 9000 USD. This experience helped them realise that their expertise in 3-d digital modelling could be used for a better purpose: creating a new industry sector for digital only clothing which is very …

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HOT OFF THE PRESS: Pioneering analysis estimates 300 billion USD is needed by 2030... 54:58

4+ y ago54:58

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...to develop and mainstream the sustainable apparel innovations required to meet key sustainability goals for the apparel industry. Listeners of this podcast series are familiar with our on-going focus on the crucial role finance and investment plays in enabling industry transformation. For the past two years SFA and Fashion for Good have been con…

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MAKE YOUR CASE: Lewis Perkins warns the industry not to reinvent the wheel 11:41

4+ y ago11:41

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In this new segment - Make Your Case - Big Closets Small Planet provides industry experts and stakeholders a platform to argue for a particular position or perspective. In this episode, Lewis Perkins, President of the Apparel Impact Institute (AII), outlines his organisation’s vision and advice for accelerating change in the apparel industry. He ma…

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INSPIRING INNOVATION: Will molecular bonding of fibers mean the end of polyester? 9:30

5y ago9:30

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Here is a quick dose of inspiration! At Planet Textiles, Mike spoke to Spencer Null about Natural Fiber Welding's breakthrough solution: enabling natural fibers like cotton to behave like polyester. Is this a game changer? It is if it means poor quality fibers can be upgraded to premium fibers... Listen to this bite size pod to get a quick lesson o…

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BUSINESS LEADERSHIP: The optimist CEO of Lenzing, Stefan Doboczky, weighs in on circular business models, short-termism & watchdogs. 43:22

5y ago43:22

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Do you ever wonder how CEOs from some of our industry's most influential companies view the big social and environmental challenges we are facing today and the potential of business and innovation to adequately address these? TENCEL is a sponsor of this podcast series, so Michael took the chance and invited Lenzing's CEO Stefan Doboczky to discuss …

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INSPIRING INNOVATION: Can a simple phone call make invisible workers visible? 13:34

5y ago13:34

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Dr. Lea Esterhuizen, an expert in gathering sensitive data from scared populations, believes we are unwittingly eating and wearing products that have likely been made or assembled using forced labor. Typically the apparel industry has used the "social audit" to address this problem. But social audits provide an incomplete picture of the situation. …

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INDUSTRY UPDATE: Finance & Innovation - Today’s financing models don’t cut it. We need new approaches that are structured in a way to help reduce risk for all parties involved. 47:03

5y ago47:03

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Mike had the unique opportunity to sit down with an impact investor and a vertical manufacturer to share their real world views on what it takes to accelerate the uptake of sustainable apparel technologies in the apparel supply chain. Tanvi Karambelkar, representing the newly launched Good Fashion Fund, introduces the fund’s pioneering approach for…

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INDUSTRY UPDATE: Sound the alarm? Or have we overestimated the problems associated with microfibers & microplastics?!? 46:08

5y ago46:08

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Between 2014 and 2016, an increasing number of journalists began reporting on disturbing new research showing that microfibers from synthetic garments were making their way from our washing machines into fish and other aquatic animals. Since then the textile industry has been scrambling to understand the extent of the problem and what our industry …

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INSPIRING INNOVATION: The robots are coming! This development may be good for the environment, but is this the beginning of the end for garment workers in production countries? 17:43

5y ago17:43

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The United States Military is required to make their clothing in the United States. But because very little clothing is produced in the United States today, the U.S. Military needed to find alternative solutions. Enter Pete Santora, who launched SoftWear Automation 13 years ago to respond to this challenge. Today his technology, which automates sew…

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INDUSTRY UPDATE: A Sexy Update on the State of Chemical Management in Textiles Today. "As consumers, we've probably never been safer. As citizens, we have probably never been more unsafe..." 56:09

5y ago56:09

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At Planet Textiles, Mike Schragger spoke with two of his favorite chemical and textiles experts, Phil Patterson and Linda Greer, about the state of the industry regarding chemical management in textiles today. If this does not sound sexy to you, then you don't know Phil and Linda! In addition to getting a primer on chemical history and good and bad…

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INSPIRING INNOVATION: Subcritical water… what the “!#@%” is that? And what can it do for the apparel industry? 14:21

5+ y ago14:21

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The founders of Tyton BioSciences are not personally interested in fashion, but that won’t stop them from using subcritical water to help solve the current textile-recycling conundrum. Mike Schragger talks to Luke Henning, CFO of Tyton, about their unique process for separating cellulose from polyester in blended materials. This podcast is sponsore…

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INSPIRING INNOVATION: Apparel industry = waste. 34:29

5+ y ago34:29

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Nearly 6 million tons of leftover textiles - the equivalent 18 million new clothes - are wasted in South East Asia and China alone. If we could remanufacture these textiles and reuse them, or ensure we only produce what we need when we need it, we may be able to significantly reduce the environmental impacts of clothing production and support the t…

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BUSINESS LEADERSHIP: Climate Action - The H&M group boldly committed to becoming climate positive by 2040. But getting there requires unprecedented leadership and change. Is the H&M group in over its head ... 49:20

5+ y ago49:20

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In a refreshingly candid and constructive interview, Mike spoke with the H&M group’s Kim Hällström about what has happened since the company first made their important public climate commitment and what we can learn from the H&M group’s insights and experiences in order to help the entire apparel industry reduce its emissions in line with a 1,5 deg…

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INSPIRING INNOVATION: What if using your credit card to purchase clothing could actually help combat global warming? 32:06

5+ y ago32:06

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If we knew the specific climate impacts of each of our purchases, such as the greenhouse gas emissions of our favourite dress or shoes, would we make more climate friendly purchases? And would the companies who make fashion and apparel products – now knowing that we know the climate impacts of our clothing purchases - offer more climate friendly op…

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Innovation - Edwin Keh thinks that to solve the fashion industry’s sustainability challenges we need to radically rethink R&D. 45:28

5+ y ago45:28

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Mike speaks with Edwin Keh, CEO of the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles & Apparel Limited, about his team's pioneering and surprising breakthrough in the area of textile recycling, his deep conviction that to accelerate the development and uptake of sustainable solutions our industry needs to do R&D very differently, and why industry innova…

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INDUSTRY UPDATE: The Innovation Ecosystem - Do you want the inside scoop about which sustainable apparel innovations are hot and which are not? Then ask two passionate, albeit a bit wacky, business development ... 45:15

5+ y ago45:15

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Do you get excited when hearing about breakthrough sustainability apparel innovations - such as fibers made from fruit waste or blockchain technology being used to track and trace the origin and content of your clothing? Do you sometimes wonder if these breakthroughs are too good to be true? Greg Stillman and Rogier van Mazijk work with visionary e…

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Jason Kibbey: “Beware of the ‘Circular Fairies’!” 1:01:39

6y ago1:01:39

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Jason Kibbey, CEO of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), has been been leading one of the most important sustainability trade organizations in the apparel sector for the past 8 years. Jason joins Mike Schragger online from his office in San Francisco to chat about the progress the apparel sector is making, his assessment of the SAC to date, an…

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INDUSTRY UPDATE: Finance & Innovation - Show me the money! 48:10

6y ago48:10

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Sustainable solutions are emerging but is there enough investment capital available to ensure they succeed? Mike Schragger talks with Fashion for Good’s Rogier van Mazijk about the innovation process, the exciting sustainable solutions that could save the fashion industry, and the need for billions, if not trillions of dollars to ensure these innov…

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Linda Greer believes in radical transparency! 50:43

6y ago50:43

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Linda Greer, Senior Scientist at the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) joins Mike Schragger online from her office in Washington, D.C. to share her experiences working to improve the apparel sector, her initial ideas for creating a climate roadmap for apparel and her conviction that transparency as it is practiced today is not effective eno…

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