Learning From the Climate-Mental Health Convergence
The climate movement has lessons for all social impact practitioners working to create a more just and healthy world.
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The climate movement has lessons for all social impact practitioners working to create a more just and healthy world.
Ken Pucker responds to his readers’ critiques of his Up for Debate article “A Circle That Isn’t Easily Squared” and reiterates his call for a systemic shift in how the fashion industry does business.
The fashion industry could decrease its environmental impact by shifting its sources of revenue from material and energy to labor.
Currently, every predominant aspect of sustainability discourse and practice is white-centered. It’s time to change that.
Funders must examine how to realistically drive measurable progress on sustainability in the fashion industry.
People working within fashion supply chains must collaborate to determine where and how their evolving business models can contribute to circularity.
Rather than canning the circular-economy concept altogether, business leaders and policy makers should prioritize sufficiency over recycling.
Opportunities for innovative solutions exist across all areas of the value chain, including design, supply chain technologies, and molecular recycling.
Collaboration is an essential driver for discovering and scaling innovative approaches that can move the fashion industry toward circularity.
As the fashion industry’s environmental footprint attracts increasingly negative attention, circular business models are promoting opportunities to sustain growth by decoupling revenue streams from resource use.
In this Up for Debate series, Ken Pucker, former Timberland COO, explains the industry’s turn to circularity and the barriers to its adoption, then researchers and experts in the sector respond.