• Fast Fashion: Shop or Stop?

    Fast fashion has taken over the fashion industry, but is less expensive, trendy clothing really worth the purchase? Those who say to “stop” argue fast fashion harms the environment in many ways and exploits workers in countries with lax regulations. Those who say “keep shopping” argue it’s up to shoppers to choose, as fast fashion offers affordable options, supports jobs, and boosts local economies. Now we debate: Fast Fashion: Shop or Stop?
    Arguing Stop: Kenneth Pucker, Former COO of Timberland; Professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University
    Arguing Shop: Katherine Mangu-Ward, Editor-in-Chief at Reason
    Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-to-debate/id216713308?i=1000678619812

     

     

     

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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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  • Climate Change is Heating Up the Global Business World

    We sat down with Kenneth Pucker, sustainability, fashion, and ESG (Environment, Sustainability, and Governance) expert and professor of the practice in the online Master of Global Business Administration (GBA) at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. We discussed how sustainability, ESG, and businesses’ bottom lines collide with the expanding global warming crisis.

    Pucker is an accomplished writer, with articles appearing in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Institutional Investor and the Harvard Business Review. Prior to his professorship at Tufts, he worked at Timberland, serving as chief operating officer from 2000 to 2007.

    https://globalbusiness.tufts.edu/experience/resources/global-business-and-climate-change/
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  • The fizz firm fudging its footprint

    How can Keurig Dr Pepper report a 12% reduction in scope 3 emissions when they’ve actually increased by 14%? David Burrows reports.

    If more companies commit to measuring and reporting publicly on their sustainability performance, four things should happen. ESG performance should improve; more ‘sustainable’ companies should be rewarded; a link tying companies with better ESG records to better equity returns should emerge; and the measurements and reporting should become more rigorous. “Over time, this virtuous cycle would result in a more sustainable form of capitalism,” wrote professor Kenneth Pucker from Tufts University, Massachusetts, in an HBR paper in June 2021.

    The fizz firm fudging its footprint

     

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  • WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT SHEIN

    Up until this point, there’s something we’ve avoided talking about almost entirely. Giving this thing extra air time, extra oxygen, felt counterintuitive to everything we stand for. Even if we were being critical – which we would be – we wouldn’t be telling people anything they didn’t already know; preaching to the converted just for clicks. And that’s not what we’re about.

    That thing is SHEIN. And, try as we might, we can no longer avoid it; the fast fashion giant has inserted itself into the conversation, not by virtue of its planet-destroying practices, the ones we all know about, but by making claims at sustainability and circularity. By declaring itself a force for good. And let’s be clear: it is most certainly not that.

    https://futurevvorld.com/fashion/shein-sustainability/

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  • Inside Shein’s plan to recycle ‘deadstock’ material into new clothing

    Shein has many vocal critics such as Tufts’ Pucker, who say the company’s low prices and hyper-fast new product cycle encourage unsustainable consumption and resource use. “It’s not just that it’s more polyester, chemicals and microfibers, it’s the associated negative externalities that are unfunded and impact all of humanity.”

    https://www.greenbiz.com/article/inside-sheins-plan-recycle-deadstock-material-new-clothing

     

     

     

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  • Why It’s So Hard to Track the Fashion Industry’s Emissions

    A growing number of fashion companies are talking about substantially cutting their greenhouse gas emissions. But evaluating those efforts is tricky.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-16/is-your-favorite-fashion-brand-cutting-emissions-it-s-tricky?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNTg2MzMxMSwiZXhwIjoxNzE2NDY4MTExLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTREtUQUtEV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFMkUzODg2QzgzREM0NTUxOEVFM0M2MDRGN0ZBRTlGMyJ9.B64jSM_CdVSN7A39q7ZLbDr9cAb74sWGex6lDznvwLQ&sref=fnjoKOAK

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