Response: Collaborating Can Optimize Circularity’s Benefits
People working within fashion supply chains must collaborate to determine where and how their evolving business models can contribute to circularity.
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Response: Driving Sustainability From Within Business
Rather than canning the circular-economy concept altogether, business leaders and policy makers should prioritize sufficiency over recycling.
Response: Investing in the Transition to a Less Wasteful Future
Opportunities for innovative solutions exist across all areas of the value chain, including design, supply chain technologies, and molecular recycling.
Response: Using Industrial Symbiosis to Address Barriers to Circularity
Collaboration is an essential driver for discovering and scaling innovative approaches that can move the fashion industry toward circularity.
A Circle That Isn’t Easily Squared
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.
Putting the SDGs Back on Track
Worldwide SDG efforts are failing. How can businesses do their part to make things right?
Open access to this article is made possible by a research grant from E4S (Enterprise for Society Center)
Queering Mentorship
The Minneapolis-based nonprofit QUEERSPACE Collective provides mentorship and community to queer youth at a time when they are facing endless attacks.
Archiving Indigenous History
Native Bound Unbound is digitally documenting the long-overlooked history of enslaved Indigenous people throughout the Americas.
Cabin Solutions
DignityMoves’ interim housing provides immediate support to urban homeless populations.
Accelerating LGBTQ+ Health Solutions
UPenn’s ambitious Eidos initiative marries business innovation with health research to tackle LGBTQ+ health inequities.