Sustainability

Nadia Tandra had a vision for what working in fashion would be like. Growing up in Indonesia, with her mother who designed clothes and her grandmother who ran a garment factory, Nadia could not wait to become a designer. “I imagined this fashion world would be like a magical place,” Nadia said. “But when I grew up, I realized...

From her home in Maryland, Nadia Tandra launched Lunellery in 2020 with the help of family and friends in Indonesia who she trusts in the fashion industry. Her clothing brand focuses on small production of dresses made of selective, dead stock fabrics.

Clothes designed by Asate Maisé have sold out online in 6 minutes. Maisé gives a tour of her studio in Wilmington, Delaware, and talks about her use of sustainable, deadstock vintage fabrics in eye-catching clothing.

After committing to making all of its products sustainable by 2030, Danish toymaker LEGO announced that it will start rolling out new bricks made entirely of recycled bottles.

At the beginning of the pandemic, as grocery store shelved emptied of essentials, many people in the U.S. got a taste of a world where food isn’t easy to come by. But as climate change threatens the planet, experts say mass food shortages are a real danger. That’s why people like Elizabeth Medgyesy of California’s Sonoma County are turning to...

Two British designers have developed an eco-friendly approach to producing furniture — they grow it directly from trees. The co-founders of the U.K. furniture business, called Full Grown, coax trees to grow into the shape of tables, chairs and even lamps. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories met with the co-founders of Full Grown to see this “organic 3D printing”...

In Taos, New Mexico, a team is building a model of self-sustainable, off-the-grid living called Earthships. The concept was pioneered by Michael Reynolds 50 years ago and has been evolving ever since. He said the structures meet the six key human needs by providing shelter, water, food, energy, sewage treatment and garbage management.

Taking a toy out of the box can make a mess.

Vogue Italia has produced its first issue of the new year and decade with an eye on sustainability, substituting fashion illustrations for photographs in an effort to reduce the environmental impact associated with staging fashion photo shoots around the globe. Editor-in-chief Emanuele Farneti said the January issue was believed to be the first time a Vogue magazine has gone photo-less…