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How to Build A Sustainable Wardrobe. A Beginner Friendly Guide To Fabric

One thing that became clear as I’ve continued learning about sustainable fashion is the fabrics that make up our clothing matters. Understanding the production and manufacturing process of the fibers in today’s clothing plays an important role in building a cohesive/sustainable wardrobe filled with pieces that will last for years. Most of our clothes are …

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7 Guidelines for Getting Rid of Unwanted Clothes

So, you’ve recently gone through a closet purge and are left with the task of finding a new home for all your unused and unwanted garments. This stage might seem like a challenge at first especially when trying to maximize the potential that your items will be of good use. Figuring out what to do …

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How To Build a Sustainable Wardrobe: Phase 1 – The Closet Purge

One of the things I love about fashion is its ability to tell our story. The clothes we chose to wear reveals a lot about individuals in various yet subtle ways. It can be used as an expression of our ideas, values, and beliefs through slogans or brands we consistently wear. It can also be …

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5 beginner-friendly tips to reducing plastic waste

Living a zero-waste or low waste lifestyle is a lot easier than you might think and, in most cases, requires little to no effort. At times, the zero-waste movement alludes you to think that being sustainable requires buying a new product that’s often expensive and inaccessible to tha masses but that’s simply not the case. …

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Choosing an Eco-friendly alternative to single-use bags

Learning how to avoid plastic at all cost has become a hot button topic in society today. More and more each day, consumers are looking for ways to offset their plastic use and lean towards more sustainable and ethically minded alternatives. In recent years, there have been bans on plastic bags in about 150 California …

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Sustainable Living. More Than Just Aesthetics

When you hear the term “sustainable living” what are a few things that come to mind? Do you picture someone who’s a minimalist and has a zero-waste lifestyle? Does it mean buying “green” products and opting for organic foods? Or is it using your spending power to support artisans, buying fair trade products and shopping …

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Sustainable Living Blues

Living in Nigeria as a child, every day was a sustainable life. We bought food from the market from local farmers, nothing was ever put to waste no matter how much you had, manual labor was a common part of life, and there was a sense of community in every neighborhood. Moving to America took …

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Behind the scenes of Plastic

Original Photo by Peter Clarkson on Unsplash In case you didn’t know, the month of July was widely referred to as Plastic-free July; a month where people were encouraged to challenge themselves to forego the usage of single-use plastic. The initiative behind plastic free July is to spread awareness about the use of plastic and to encourage consumers …

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The Gift of a Bra

As I’ve continued the Kon Mari process and gone about the act of donating my clothes, I wanted to see how my donations could produce some good in this world. According to the council for textile recycling, the average US citizen throws away 70lbs of clothing and other textiles per year, and the EPA estimates …

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Tidying up. The KonMari Method Part 1

Close to the end of 2017, I read an article on Career Contessa titled “9 Self-Help Books For Women Who Hate Self-Help”. One of the books recommend was The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. The premise of the book is to encourage a way of tidying up that should eliminate a need to …

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