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Fashion
On average, it takes 10,000 litres of water to produce 1 kilo of cotton, or 2,500 to 3,000 litres for a standard T-shirt (250 to 300 grams of cotton). That’s a lot of water consumption for such a small piece of fabric! 4% of the world’s drinking water is used to produce our clothes. The…
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Protecting water
We recently received instructions to save water. We all agree that water is a precious resource that must be preserved. Why aren’t the big water consumers targeted by these measures? Intensive corn, cotton and soya farming (including in deserts and devastated forests), concrete buildings, golf courses or clothing manufacturing consume a lot of water. What…
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Family sunglasses holder
As a mother of two children, I often end up carrying three pairs of sunglasses — on my T-shirt… It is not that convenient, so, I’ve thought about this little family sunglasses holder. My husband usually deals with his sunglasses, that’s why I’ve created one for three pairs. This is just an idea, this is…
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Clean Clothes
Shirt on your back: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/apr/bangladesh-shirt-on-your-back To go further: https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour Child Labour map: To know more about Clean clothes campaign: https://cleanclothes.org To know more about Better Work: http://betterwork.org About MFA (Multi Fiber Arrangement): https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/texti_e/texintro_e.htm Countries which have promoted MFA : Australia, Canada, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, United States. About Maker Culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_culture Buy second hand clothes on a shop…