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From Climate Anxiety to Climate Resilience

From Climate Anxiety to Climate Resilience

In 2018 when the IPCC announced we only had ‘12 years to limit climate change catastrophe’, I remember having an anxiety induced knee-jerk reaction which I immediately regretted. I sent a message to the WhatsApp junior infant parent group of my son’s school, more or less pleading with everyone to do something to save our children’s futures. The radio silence afterwards made...

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The Social & Environmental Impact of the clothes we wear

The Social & Environmental Impact of the clothes we wear

Fashion Revolution Week was created to mark the anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, where 1,132 garment factory workers, mostly young women, were killed and more than 2,500 were injured. We remember and honour them by demanding that no one should die for fashion! 80 Billion garments are produced each year with 400% more clothes being produced now...

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