In 1958, Leonard Read—founder of the Foundation for Economic Education—wrote “I, Pencil,” an essay chronicling the mysterious, global life of a pencil. For Read, the

Fashion is a dirty industry: It accounts for 20 percent of global wastewater pollution and 5 percent of global greenhouse emissions. The good news first:

TAU recently announced an investment deal with DyeCoo, a company that creates waterless dyeing machines. Amongst the various investment opportunities for sustainable technology in fashion and

In 1911, a bin of clippings caught on fire in a garment factory in Greenwich Village. The clippings—two months’ worth—were highly flammable, and the fire

A couple weeks ago I spoke with New York Times journalist David Gelles about his new book “The Man Who Broke Capitalism” and the problem

Consider the “old” ways that people recycled clothing: siblings passed along hand-me-downs as they grew up, tailors resized garments when customers gained or lost weight,