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I can count my clothes
Why can't brands?
Sep 15, 2024 • 
Ruth MacGilp

August 2024

What fuels fashion?
New report calls on brands to invest in decarbonisation
Aug 1, 2024 • 
Ruth MacGilp

May 2024

A postcard from Global Fashion Summit
Are we overcomplicating this?
May 24, 2024 • 
Ruth MacGilp

February 2024

Fashion is gassy
How 'natural gas' became a 'sustainable solution'
Feb 20, 2024 • 
Ruth MacGilp

January 2024

Diet culture, beauty culture, fast fashion culture
Optimise everything, just not workers rights!
Jan 16, 2024 • 
Ruth MacGilp

December 2023

How will fashion's green transition *actually* happen?
Field notes from COP28
Dec 14, 2023 • 
Ruth MacGilp

November 2023

Tech won't save fashion
Clothing is quite simple, really. So is paying your workers.
Nov 10, 2023 • 
Ruth MacGilp

October 2023

Yoga and sustainability
hey, you don't need new leggings for yoga class
Oct 3, 2023 • 
Ruth MacGilp

September 2023

Fashion is a social license for fossil fuels
Challenging the social license that fashion provides to Big Oil
Sep 4, 2023 • 
Ruth MacGilp

August 2023

Trend immunity
The tied jumper saga
Aug 6, 2023 • 
Ruth MacGilp

July 2023

Interpolations
What was unsaid at the Global Fashion Summit?
Jul 4, 2023 • 
Ruth MacGilp

May 2023

Beyond growth?
Redefining overproduction as 'excess'
May 22, 2023 • 
Ruth MacGilp
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