Textile Exchange

How can a new Green Economy model save our seed? ... and what does this mean for the textile industry? [read more]

Is ‘sustainability’ happening fast enough to protect our precious resources: our climate, our water, our soils, and indeed protect ourselves..?  As we reel from one economic crisis to another, more ‘natural’ disasters and political unrest, and feel the force of a volatile commodity market and rising food prices... we simultaneously attempt to ‘manage sustainability’.  These days there is a focus on ‘upscaling’ and how we can change a little in the right direction to maximise reach.

In this guest blog, Jeff Wilson of Quiksilver explains how a holistic approach underlines all that they do – in parallel with organic’s philosophy. In their search for the best solution, Quiksilver takes all the evidence into account and maintains that all-important holistic view. (read more)

Land Use Intensity, is arguably at odds with other elements of sustainability, yet is undeniably a necessary consideration for the textile industry due to the massive need the industry currently has for raw materials. [Read more]

Welcome back! In this blog we will explore the advantage of organic through the biodiversity lens. For most environmental impact areas – or lenses - we want to be able to drill right down to quantifiable data based on a common measurement (KPI) - for biodiversity it is the same. However, first steps are sometimes to review any conservation or biodiversity management practices... [continue reading]

Welcome back to our series on organic cotton through the lenses of the Eco-Index. So far we have examined the organic advantage by considering impact through the Eco-Index lenses of: Water, Energy/GHG, and Waste. So what does the Eco-Index say about Toxics/ Chemistry to date - and how does organic cotton rate? [Read more]

If we zoom in on the potential waste sources in cotton production, and the waste reduction measures that exist within organic cotton growing, once again we can acknowledge the organic advantage. [Read more]

In my previous blog I spoke of the opportunity for organic cotton to shine through the lenses of the Eco-index. Over the next few weeks we will begin to explore the organic advantage a little further - starting today with a closer look at water and greenhouse gas emissions. Read on

Advocates of organic cotton have spent a lot of time dancing to a different tune. This year we reflects on our ten years of advocating organic cotton – of staging shin-digs at which we have invited growers and brands to find ways to dance together. As we reflect and project, we rejoice in the arrival of the Eco-Index. Continue reading

For most of us, reading a standard or a regulation, or the small print of a transaction certificate, is nowhere near as exciting as browsing the raves and rants on tripadvisor. Why not? [read more]