Witness the human and environmental health impact of the fashion industry for yourself and get inspired to influence change.
We know that health is a vital topic for us all, yet this talk will likely reveal news you're not aware of. Never did she imagine that having her twins would.
Learn more about PFAS and PFCS. Eight teams travelled to remote areas across three continents to collect water and snow samples, and test them for PFCs. Learn more about PFCs, where they come from and why they should be avoided.
Activists, bloggers, designers, scientists and models have been able to convince big brands including Zara, Mango, Valentino, UNIQLO and H&M to commit to toxic-free fashion.
Workers in many leather tanneries in the Hazaribagh, Bangladesh include children who become ill because of exposure to hazardous chemicals and are injured in horrific workplace accidents, according to Human Rights Watch.
TOXIC IS SO LAST SEASON. They say you can tell next season's hottest color by looking at the rivers in Mexico and China. That's because global fashion brands are using hazardous chemicals & dyes to make our clothes.
Exposing the scary secret behind Victoria’s Secret and La Senza and the lingerie and dresses women wear, the chemicals used to make them, and the impact that toxins have on our health.
"Detox: How Fashion is Cleaning Up Its Act" documents the voices of fashion companies, academics, NGOs, local communities and fashionistas - and shows how global #PeoplePower is pushing the industry to detox.
STINK! reveals the toxic chemicals unknowingly brought into homes and explores how hidden chemicals, endocrine suppressors, and a house full of toxins was inspired by the strange smell of children’s pajamas.
Verena from “My Green Closet” digs into the very requested topic of fabric dyes!
The ZDHC MRSL is a list of chemical substances banned from intentional use in facilities that process textile materials and trim parts in apparel and footwear. The MRSL establishes acceptable concentration limits for substances in chemical formulations used within manufacturing facilities.
From the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, this feature displays fashion’s cost to human health in the leather tanneries. Workers labor all day, engulfed with the nauseating stench of animal flesh, a “difficult, dirty & dangerous job.”
For more than 500 years, skilled artisans in Southern China have been hand making Xiang Yun Sha silk. All ingredients are natural and the process is of making the silk is completely sustainable.
An award-winning documentary reveals how the manufacturing of our clothing is destroying rivers around the world and challenging the way we look at how our clothing is made and the solutions that inspire hope.
Bangladesh's leather industry is worth more than one billion dollars a year, but that value comes at a significant human cost to the many workers employed in the country's leather tanneries. The process of tanning leather is highly toxic.
A shocking investigation into the hypocrisy of US pesticide laws. When the US government bans a pesticide, deemed too harmful for the American people, you would imagine that to be the end of it. What you would not expect is it to then be exported freely aboard for profit.
Created in collaboration with award winning documentary film-maker Eugenio Pogolvsky, "Un Salto de Vida" focuses on a family living in El Salto, a city on one of Mexico's most heavily polluted rivers: the Rio Santiago.
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. The story dramatizes Robert Bilott’s case against the chemical manufacturing corporation Dupont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals.
Clean freshwater is one of our most precious and most threatened natural resources. In China, as much as 70% of rivers, lakes and reservoirs are all polluted. Many chemicals released from textile factories threaten human health and the environment.
Learn more about the textile industry and how its processes affect the environment and what issues toxic chemicals are causing around the world.
As Executive Director of the environmental nonprofit Green Inside and Out, Beth Fiteni's passion is to help empower people to seek out healthier alternatives to common toxins and inspire them to create a greener, lower impact lifestyle.
Based on a true story, in 1993, an unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
Relatively few people are aware of the potential danger of toxic chemicals in their fabrics/clothing, which are explained in more detail in this video.
This is a story about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?