Peleke Flores is the Director of Community Engagement for Mālama Hulēʻia, the nonprofit organization stewarding the Alakoko Fishpond on Kauaʻi. In this conversation, he shares
TAU’s Ken Katz explores how decoupling manufacturing from water use can drive resilience and value creation. Read his full article in Sourcing Journal here.
The cost of everyday goods in the U.S., from clothing to small home appliances, may soon rise sharply—and that’s on top of recent inflation, and
Phil Courtenay is an Operating Partner at TAU Investment, where he assists portfolio companies with a wide range of growth opportunities ranging from manufacturing capabilities
The average American woman wears a size 16 to 18, but plus size clothing only accounts for 19% of the American apparel market.[1] Why are
Fran Dunaway is the CEO and Co-Founder of TomboyX, a gender neutral apparel company. In 2013 Fran and her wife Naomi Gonzalez founded TomboyX, which
Kristy Caylor is the CEO of Trashie, an innovative textile recycling company, and For Days, a zero-waste fashion brand. Trashie’s “Take Back Bag” allows customers
Simon Weston is the CEO of CleanDye, a textile factory in Vietnam that exclusively uses DyeCoo’s waterless dyeing technology. Simon has worked in textile manufacturing
Considering the size of the textile and fashion industry—a roughly $2 trillion market annually—as well as its environmental impact—roughly 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions—it is
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,
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
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
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 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: