Sustainability Resources
In order to help you to jump start a new sustainability strategy for yourself and or your company, you will find below a series of resources and links that will help you on your journey.
Remember, there is no magic way to get to sustainability quickly other than saving water and turning off the lights. It is a journey and a process.
Fortunately there are many exciting rabbit holes to get lost in along the way (start with the links below and get lost in the depth of each one).
Some rabbit holes you may pop into…
UN-SDG’s - https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
And more…
Textile Exchange - https://textileexchange.org/materials/
CFDA - https://cfda.com/resources/materials
https://cfda.com/resources/sustainability-resources
SAC - https://apparelcoalition.org/the-higg-index/
Global Fashion Agenda - https://globalfashionagenda.com/#
Ellen MacArthur Foundation - https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org
Fashion Positive - https://www.fashionpositive.org/circular-materials
Playing to Win - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vAIur-N8gM
Natural Capital Coalition - https://naturalcapitalcoalition.org/apparel/
Six Sigma - https://www.isixsigma.com/new-to-six-sigma/what-six-sigma/
DyStar - https://www.dystar.com
And so the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland starts:
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
So, be like ALICE, let’s jump in and by the way, stay in touch when you finally pop out again.