ATTRA
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Growing concerns about textile-derived microplastics, land-use impacts, “fast fashion,” and human rights have prompted an industry-wide shift to seek natural fiber sources with verified benefits to land and climate.
Sustainable Food Trust
JANUARY 31, 2024
He went on to talk about the studies being done on greenhouse gases in relation to sheep farming and the potential for wool to be a carbon sink, with around 40% of a sheep’s fleece consisting of carbon. Why are we competing on a global scale when we have good markets in the UK for fibres and textiles?
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Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
It was there she met Meg Erskine, co-founder and CEO of the Multicultural Refugee Coalition (MRC), the non-profit that oversees New Leaf and a textile manufacturing studio located at the church. Bista’s son Bal is New Leaf’s chicken and greenhouse manager, and he and his in-laws also have community farmer plots.
Agwired
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
The answer…soy-based textiles which are on the rise. Soy announces Clara Padgham from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the national winner of the NEXTILE: The Soy in Textile Design Challenge. He has also been appointed as a member of the Boards Compensation Committee and Audit Committee. billion pounds.
Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
(Graph by Our World in Data) “If we targeted just a small amount of some of the very worst offending sources of these oils, palm oil plantations or soybeans that are grown on areas recently cleared in the Amazon, we can make very large reductions in some of the greenhouse gas emissions,” says Davis.
Modern Farmer
MARCH 1, 2024
Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. In the US, 85 percent of used clothes and other textiles are sent to the landfill.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.
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