Sustainable Matters
Archeologia Arborea: a green time capsule preserving almost-lost fruit varieties
Turning back time – Archeologia Arborea preserves the local rural knowledge and history by studying and organically farming local fruit varieties on the brink of extinction
Chromatic Shifts: the impact of climate change on flower pigmentation and pollination
The science behind the silent transformation of flora due to climate change. Pigment changes could make plants less attractive to pollinators
Cacao Agroforestry: the Cacao tree is a symbol of the tropical forest’s preservation
Every time a tree is burned, its stored carbon is released. The planet is getting warmer because we are eliminating shade. In conversation with Diego Badaro, founder AMMA Chocolates
The story of an anthropogenic biological invasion – the Ailanthus Altissima
Ubiquitous anywhere from Portugal to Greece, in the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, the Ailanthus Altissima is an invasive alien species (IAS) one threatening the local flora
From Ukraine. Two million stories to begin to understand the war
Mediterranea Saving Humans activated right after the Russian invasion. Always standing by the civilian population – the only real victims
Washi, the art of Japanese papermaking: ancient craft, modern possibilities?
Japanese washi paper, a millennial UNESCO-certified heritage: what’s holding it back from becoming a sustainable solution for fashion and artisanal crafting
Collect, recirculate and recycle – A call to reuse from the fashion capitals
Spazio Meta, La Réserve des Arts, Materials for the Arts. The repurposing and reuse of objects and props used by fashion brands in the circularization process of the industry
Forests: primary forest loss stays at low levels in both Indonesia and Malaysia
Insight from the latest update of the GFR’s Forest Pulse: Indonesia is the top country for the reduction in primary forest loss as of 2022, with a sixty-four percent reduction
Nothing is forever, not even diamonds: from the Antwerp diamond district
Scandals linked to blood diamonds are coming back to Antwerp with the war in Ukraine. Zelensky speaks: «peace is more valuable than diamonds in shops»
Ganni teams up with Rubi to present a yarn from photosynthesis carbon emissions
Fashion giants Reformation and Patagonia to create prototype products : Can carbon yarn made from bio catalysis be a substitute for viscose? Ganni and Rubi working together
Flipping the Script: full story of cotton– Against the idea of ‘basics’
The world’s first sustainable fashion museum in Amsterdam invites consumers to expand their view on cotton beyond jeans and T-shirt with the exhibition Flipping the Script
Biophilia in the home: the art of growing furniture
Patience, Innovation, and Nature – from exclusivity to mass appeal. Full Grown's vision for the Future is about connections with the Natural World through furniture
Getting rid of the abstract goals: Mylo and the Global Fashion Summit 2023
The case of stop in production of Mylo, an alternative and ethical material created by Bolt Threads has created a stir: why does fashion still put little effort?
The Mangrove roots build up nurseries for organisms and ecosystems
Protecting from predators, strong heat, and forceful tides mangrove roots help the biosphere and remove five times more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than terrestrial forests
Design is a metamorphosis: the manipulation process of Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet
French designers Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet: «we use digital image manipulation tools: digital manufacturing is an area for bridging virtual and physical through objects»
Canada with its 895 million acres of forest experiences wildfires every year
Experts have expressed concern about the potential impact of Canadian wildfires on two species in particular: the Whooping Crane, which is found in Alberta, and the Wood Poppy
Plant breeding – cracking plants’ clonal mode of reproduction to improve agriculture
If implemented in agriculture, the propagation process of a commercial hybrid rice strain through cloning explored in the 2022 study could lower the price of hybrid rice seeds
We are what we fuck: microplastics are invading the male reproductive system
Traces of plastic microparticles found in semen samples of healthy men: prolonged exposure to plastic pollution might be putting the future of humanity at risk
Formafantasma – dismissing the biggest utopia of modernity: resources are not infinite
In conversation with Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin: «Everything for us starts with words and concepts, not shapes»
Hidden waste – 23 million returned and unsold garments sent to landfill or incinerated
From the report it emerged that thirty-six percent of the responders in the Millennials age group (26-41 years old) were classified as high-intensity returners
Hollywood writers on two months of strike out of fear of being replaced by AI
Why the Hollywood Writers’ strike matters: the Writers Guild of America has stated that while series budget has increased, writers’ share of pay has shrunk
Siamo Foresta, the Yanomami community: with Sheroanawe Hikihiiwe and Fabrice Hyber
We all have one goal for forests: to render them alive once again. Yanomami artist Sheroanawe Hikihiiwe and French-based artist Fabrice Hyber have created four hands for Siamo Foresta
If human stupidity destroys forests, artificial intelligence can save it
World Rainforest Day 2023: Conserve. Restore. Regenerate. This year’s theme captures the role that AI and Indigenous rights play in saving rainforests
Climate change awareness and weight among the public – an international perspective
A report published ahead of COP27 by Ipsos showed that sixty-five percent of British citizens support subsidies making environmentally friendly technologies cheaper
UN’s Convention to combat Desertification highlights gender inequality issues
Women play a role to ensure the health of the land. The UN’s Convention educates about effectively working the land and destroying barriers for women
Skyscrapers rise, New York sinks: How the many buildings are making the city sink
New research has found that New York City is sinking at an average rate of 1-2 mm per year. The Big Apple is in a race against time to find...
Using beauty and ugliness together – Thirza Schaap’s plastic waste sculptures
Hidden behind the surface – In her photographs, Dutch artist Thirza Schaap uses plastic waste as a material to create sculptures that mix daintiness and disgust
World Oceans Day: the impact of offshore oil and gas on the oceans
The Rosebank oil and gas field located 130 km from the Shetland archipelago could affect 16 British Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): the World Oceans Day
COP28 – we had 27 conferences already and still no real outputs
UAE Dubai's COP28: Nations around the world have taken measures towards dealing with the climate catastrophe, but with time its consequences have only worsened
What does the Rana Plaza disaster mean for the fashion industry after ten years?
The biggest disaster that happened in the fashion world and caused by the sick logic of the system, how the industry evolved
Climate change and infectious diseases – understating how the arthropod vectors work
Climate change and arthropod vectors - new research shows that climate change is causing the diffusion of the arthropod vectors in higher elevations and latitudes
BIG and Vestre: the most efficient factory in the world is built in Norway
Transparency, renewable energy, burnt wood and production flows. Optimizing to build the factory of the future: BIG and Vestre present The Plus
Fact-checking: is the use of coal making a comeback? – An international analysis
Expansion of renewables will lead to a decline of twenty-eight percent in the EU power sector's CO2 emissions by 2025 and in fossil fuel-fired generation from 2023
The Japan Meteorological Agency: how is arctic warming linked to East Asia?
The Japan Meteorological Agency: the city of Mohe close to the Russian border, recorded its lowest temperature, minus 53 degrees Celsius, on January 2023
Magic mushrooms implied in microdosing practice: Madison Margolin
After Adderall: increasing productivity through psychedelic substances in daily intakes, Madison Margolin's report
Trashion Report – Clothing waste from Europe is harming people and nature in Kenya
Trashion, the stealth export of waste plastic clothes to Kenya – Wealthy countries' fashion addiction is impacting the Global South through the used clothes trade
«Is it acceptable to kill animals for fashion?» – SLAY documentary
Produced and directed by Rebecca Cappelli, the documentary across the globe delves into the different steps in the critical production of leather and its use in the fashion system
NM3 – contemporary modernism: raw materials, geometric rigor and functionality
Milan Design Week 2023 - the Milan-based studio presents Sistema, a collection of lamps designed in collaboration with 6:AM Glassworks
Fashion lives and dies in the pipelines of consumerism
Otto von Busch: «what if fashion is just a byproduct of something else? What if fashion is just the exhaust of social processes? What if fashion is just the exhaust...
The unsustainable impact of patriarchy on the industry: Maryam Lotfi with Amy Boote
The globalization of fast fashion supply chains has raised concerns about gender equality, and the industry has irresponsibly accumulated social sustainability violations
Lampoon RUVIDO, the new issue is ‘rough’
Skin, patina, eyelids — anything that is rough on our hands and eyes; Ruvido, meaning ‘rough' in Italian, is the title of the new issue of Lampoon, and composes its...
Kayako Oki and Samuel Yal cases: between low-tech craft and audiovisual research
There is an area of audiovisual production that has always preferred broken word, timelessness, a-logical relations and spatial alteration. A rough ode to the non-fictional production
The Amazonian reforestation act: Plan B for planet A – International Day of Forests
For more than a decade Reforest’Action has been taking measures to counteract the effect deforestation has left in the Amazon. An interview with Jihane Guenoun on International Day of Forests,...
Is silk sustainable? Mulberry silk and the chance of a spider web
Spider-silk is estimated to be one of the natural fabrics of the future because of its strength. Tougher by weight than the steel of the same diameter, and as strong...
Why Animals’ images used in the fashion industry? Humane Society International
Schiaparelli is not the first one using images connected to the animal world, but what has changed today? beyond the Schiaparelli case to understand this phenomenon
Endemic design: Fernando Laposse bringing the focus back to outsourced Mexico
Fernando Laposse: «designing is not just a matter of materials». When social justice, unemployment, climate change, mass migration and violence are at stake
