Eco-Friendly

Reduce, reuse, recycle. It's a mantra used by people who want to spread the word of conservation efforts that people can do from their own home. And environmental issues have become a cornerstone of the print industry. One Australian university has taken the printing industry's connection to the environment to a new level by using…

While trends like mustard yellow and plastic trench coats were big hits at Paris Fashion Week, one designer decided to put the focus on the future of textiles. According to Engadget, Stella McCartney teamed up with an incubator called Fashion Tech Labs (FTL) to introduce new tech that breaks the textile pollution cycle. So what…

In August, the National Park Service reversed its 2011 ban on single-use water bottles. Originally put in place to minimize litter in parks like the Grand Canyon, the ban still allowed the sale of sweetened drinks. So, the NPS decided to go with what some might see as the lesser of two evils: People are…

The sale and use of single-use plastic bottles has taken a big hit, as many cities and states have made moves to outlaw their sale. Some tourist…

It turns out that the companies that create outdoor apparel and accessories really care about their clients having the chance to go out and experience nature. The New York Times reported that last week, thousands of members of the outdoor industry in Salt Lake City for the Outdoor Retailer trade show marched to the Utah…

As someone who is petrified of any and all spiders, I never thought I would spend so much time reporting on them. The thing is, spider silk has been the subject of a few recent developments that connect to the promotional apparel sector. So, I'm putting my deep-seated arachnophobia behind my duty to deliver the…

By now, we all (hopefully) know that staring directly into the sun is bad. It's also really boring, except for during phenomena like a solar eclipse. In that case,…

A group of scientists at the University of Cambridge have created an artificial spider silk made of water, paving the way for environmentally-friendly apparel manufacturing in the near future.

Sustainable fabrics and resources are all the rage right now. Even Patagonia is betting on feces and dried beetles for its next apparel campaign. So, when Sundried developed a 100 percent sustainable fabric from recycled coffee grounds (which sounds slightly more appealing than feces and dried beetles), we just had to check it out. According…

Since the 1963 publication of “Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow” by Edward Lorenz, scientists and laypeople have pondered the butterfly effect, which Merriam-Webster defines as “a property of chaotic systems (such as the atmosphere) by…