Brighter Planet's 350 Challenge

Recycling Textiles and Upcycling Textiles

We need to produce less textiles and recycle the textiles we already have.
It is possible to buy a t-shirt or even a pair of jeans for less than the price of a decent meal.  But this simply cannot be possible.  It is not possible in the long term.  It is not possible in the short term without [...]

A Patchwork Planet and Stitching Together the Fabric of Time

I’ve been trying ever so hard to be conscientious about buying (or more accurately not buying) clothes.  This also means I’ve been thinking about what to do with clothes once they are no longer serviceable as such.  Goldilocks generally manages to out grow clothes before they wear out too badly and so can be passed on [...]

Swap Shop

I’ve written posts on the subject of clothes before.  Without looking I can pretty much guarantee I’ve written something like, ‘I don’t give much thought to clothes’ or ‘clothes don’t occupy a great deal of my time or thinking.’  Nevertheless I am not walking around naked.  (Believe me that would not make the world a [...]