My other shirt is a truck!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ClimateTown
sUbScRiBe FoR mOrE ViDeOs: https://www.youtube.com/c/climatetown?sub_confirmation=1
Contact your representatives and join groups:
List of the other senators: https://contactsenators.com/
https://www.borgenmagazine.com/5-organizations-who-are-in-the-fight-against-fast-fashion/
Join the Climate Town subreddit y’all: https://www.reddit.com/r/climatetown/
Follow Climate Town on Instagram I guess? https://www.instagram.com/climatetown
Read Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas – http://www.danathomas.com/
United By Zero: https://unitedbyzero.com/
References:
History of Fashion:
https://fashionista.com/2016/06/what-is-fast-fashion
https://www.apparelsearch.com/terms/f/fashion_industry_history.html
Fast fashion stats and analysis:
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1033&context=senproj_f2016
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/2/3/21080364/fast-fashion-h-and-m-zara
https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/a-new-textiles-economy
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/why-regulations-arent-solving-the-fashion-industry-s-environmental-problem-9a50be4c2843
https://www.voguebusiness.com/sustainability/fashion-and-carbon-emissions-crunch-time
Videos in case you don’t wanna read:
https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/fault-lines-made-in-bangladesh-al-jazeera-america
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZyDdPaXLWE
https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/the-impact-of-a-cotton-t-shirt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGF3ObOBbac
Zara annual report:
https://static.inditex.com/annual_report_2019/pdfs/en/memoria/2019-Inditex-Annual-Report.pdf
Clothing thrown away:
https://www.treehugger.com/clothes-you-donate-dont-always-end-peoples-backs-4863686
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200710-why-clothes-are-so-hard-to-recycle
Legal stuff:
https://www.thefashionlaw.com/is-the-tide-changing-for-the-fashion-industrys-regulatory-environment-in-the-u-s/
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/new-german-supply-chain-due-diligence-act-view-across-border
https://sourcingjournal.com/topics/sustainability/france-climate-bill-carbon-label-textiles-clothing-292209/
Genuinely Good Reporting:
Heated: https://heated.world/p/a-lie-for-a-lie-makes-exxon-cry
NYT Coverage: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/climate/exxon-greenpeace-lobbyist-video.html
WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/07/02/exxon-climate-change-video-leaked/
Grist: https://grist.org/accountability/how-exxon-sabotages-climate-legislation-lobbyist/
Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/07/exxon-mobil-climate-manchin-lobbying-infrastructure.html
Organizations you can join right now:
Sunrise Movement: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/volunteer/
Extinction Rebellion: https://extinctionrebellion.us/get-involved
Citizens Climate Lobby: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/
Climate Action Network: http://www.climatenetwork.org/
Heated (newsletter): https://heated.world/
350.org – that one’s right in the name
Union of Concerned Scientists: https://www.ucsusa.org/
Some reading to do:
The Merchants of Doubt: https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
All We Can Save: https://www.allwecansave.earth/
The Uninhabitable Earth: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells/
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate: https://thischangeseverything.org/book/
Writing team:
Rollie Williams, Nicole Conlan, Ben Boult, Matt Nelsen
Shot by:
Matt Nelsen
Banger intro song by the one and only Gratis: https://www.gratistheband.com/
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