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Browsing Whole-system Thinking

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Fashion

Fluff Stuff creates regenerative textiles from plant fibres

Consciously farmed, plant-based textile innovations could become viable alternatives for the fashion industry, helping to reduce carbon footprint – and regenerate environments.

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Fashion

The RUEI-01 shoe embeds ‘unmanufacture’ information

Product Design student Maxwell Ashford is challenging current systems around recycling with his robotically recyclable shoe.

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Retail

Pandora’s pledge for a recycled jewellery future

Jewellery brand Pandora is pledging to use only recycled silver and gold to make its future jewellery collections.

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Travel & Hospitality

Google reveals climate change impact on heritage sites

Google’s latest tool sheds light on the impact of climate change on five of the world’s most precious cultural sites.

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Food & Drink

McDonald’s coffee waste becomes Ford car parts

Fusing shared eco-values, the companies are using this unlikely material for vehicle components.

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Design

Silo elevates the zero-waste restaurant

Doug McMaster is upcycling his Brighton restaurant by taking over a warehouse in Hackney Wick.

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Fashion

Patagonia makes unwearable clothing wearable again

ReCrafted is a new fashion line made from garments that would otherwise have gone to landfill.

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Sustainability

Paris inters its first eco-friendly cemetery

The Ivry-sur-Seine green burial area will use wooden grave markers in the place of tombstones.

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Fashion

This fashion label has carbon-negative ambitions

Working across New Zealand, Spain, Italy and the UK, Sheep Inc. is a new premium fashion brand striving to be carbon-negative.