• ClimateVoices Featuring Ken Pucker

    Engaged citizens can organize to insist that their employers and legislators better represent their interests and those of their children and grandchildren.

     

    https://climatevoice.org/climatevoices-featuring-ken-pucker/

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  • Fast fashion confronts a reckoning on sustainability under Trump tariffs

    New tariffs and the potential end of a duty-free loophole bring new challenges to fashion brands, resellers and manufacturers.

    The trade policy, although a “fine step,” won’t kick consumers’ addiction to low-cost, polluting polyester clothes, according to Ken Pucker, a former Timberland executive who teaches business at Dartmouth College and Tufts University. “Even with the addition of a few dollars of duty to a Shein dress, it will still cost less than half many competitors’ garments,” he said.

     

     

    https://trellis.net/article/fast-fashion-confronts-a-reckoning-on-sustainability-under-trump-tariffs/?mkt_tok=MjExLU5KWS0xNjUAAAGYmTgzF-jqZWzL04iHD3P5XzrWZxaBESuRN1u_GlwIHVUwb9dAhk-35Plz1K1MrPfqaHiblWbaIozB_3DOiiHV1zMTc70mcOptONXTI10a_w

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  • Allbirds goes wide with ‘net-zero’ shoe hoping other footwear companies copy it

    “Since the outset, Allbirds has been clear that consumers do not buy their shoes because they are sustainable,” said Ken Pucker, professor of practice with the Tufts Fletcher School. “Instead, they seek to make the most comfortable, simple and purposeful products that happen to be lower in carbon.”

     

    https://trellis.net/article/allbirds-wants-footwear-companies-to-copy-net-zero-shoe-design/

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  • Reasons to be cheerful: Will sustainability change for the better in 2025?

    Looking for reasons to be cheerful has always been challenging for those working in sustainability, but 2025 is set to be particularly tough.

    The new year follows one in which global CO2 emissions hits record levels, and warming crossed the 1.5°C threshold for the first time since records began.

    https://real-economy-progress.com/reasons-to-be-cheerful-will-sustainability-change-for-the-better-in-2025/

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  • Sustainability plummets as priority in 2025 for fashion brands

    Climate issues are near the bottom of the list of apparel execs’ concerns for the year ahead, according to McKinsey’s 2025 State of Fashion report. Here’s how sustainability teams can push ahead.

    https://trellis.net/article/sustainability-plummets-as-priority-in-2025-for-fashion-brands/?mkt_tok=MjExLU5KWS0xNjUAAAGXAmGp0G2GPbEnU0HyUwfGxh-bgvsnqPEt_exhawr2gKtx1wVMls7RfKdbQOmsW4KsbmMzeQyyVzKOC-uu5UtKGNYecmf3Lgod6v2Ne7UIrA

     

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  • Dark times, bright ambitions: Sustainability leaders on finding the energy to keep going

    Climate change efforts and social protections are at stake following the outcome of the US election. We asked prominent voices for change how they will keep doing the work.

     

    https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/sustainability/dark-times-bright-ambitions-sustainability-leaders-on-finding-the-energy-to-keep-going?uID=c079429c4c8bcfad965db9e40456b31002c73fcb7dd8cecdc470e0fcfbdde17d&utm_campaign=VB_NEWS_MEMBER_SustainabilityEdit_4_071124&utm_source=newsletter&utm_brand=vb&utm_mailing=VB_NEWS_MEMBER_SustainabilityEdit_4_071124&utm_medium=email&utm_term=VB_PaidSustainability

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  • Fashion’s carbon footprint is outpacing its climate progress

    As brands and sustainability leaders descend on New York for Climate Week, we take stock of where commitments lie and what needs to happen for progress to pull ahead.

    https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/sustainability/fashions-carbon-footprint-is-outpacing-its-climate-progress?uID=c079429c4c8bcfad965db9e40456b31002c73fcb7dd8cecdc470e0fcfbdde17d&utm_campaign=VB_NEWS_MEMBER_SustainabilityEdit_4_190924&utm_source=newsletter&utm_brand=vb&utm_mailing=VB_NEWS_MEMBER_SustainabilityEdit_4_190924&utm_medium=email&utm_term=VB_PaidSustainability

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  • THE MYSTERIOUS, METEORIC RISE OF SHEIN

    The most remarkable thing about Shein might be how opaque it remains even as it dominates U.S. retail. Its origins in China—where most Shein items are made—should, in theory, subject the company to extra scrutiny in the United States. Yet much about Shein is still unknown. How did it so quickly take over American retail? Who runs it, and how does it offer so many products so cheaply? Over the past year, I sought answers to these questions, and what I learned was hardly reassuring.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/09/shein-ceo-chris-xu-fast-fashion/679709/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20240906&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Atlantic+Daily

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