Big Closets Small Planet

A podcast by Michael Schragger

Categories:

Business Education

38 Episodes

  1. INNOVATION BITE - Can a simple phone call make invisible workers visible?

    Published: 30/10/2019

  2. FINANCE & INNOVATION - Today’s financing models don’t cut it. We need new approaches that are structured in a way to help reduce risk for all parties involved.

    Published: 16/10/2019

  3. INDUSTRY UPDATE - Sound the alarm? Or have we overestimated the problems associated with microfibers & microplastics?!?

    Published: 2/10/2019

  4. INNOVATION - The robots are coming! This development may be good for the environment, but is this the beginning of the end for garment workers in production countries?

    Published: 18/09/2019

  5. THOUGHT LEADERSHIP - A Sexy Update on the State of Chemical Management in Textiles Today. "As consumers, we've probably never been safer. As citizens, we have probably never been more unsafe..."

    Published: 4/09/2019

  6. INNOVATION – Subcritical Water… what the “!#@%” is that? And what can it do for the apparel industry?

    Published: 5/06/2019

  7. INNOVATION – Apparel Industry = Waste.

    Published: 29/05/2019

  8. INNOVATION IN CLIMATE ACTION - The H&M group boldly committed to becoming climate positive by 2040. But getting there requires unprecedented leadership and change. Is the H&M group in over its head? And what can the H&M group’s journey teach us about th

    Published: 22/05/2019

  9. INNOVATION & CLIMATE ACTION - What if using your credit card to purchase clothing could actually help combat global warming?

    Published: 15/05/2019

  10. INNOVATION - Edwin Keh thinks that to solve the fashion industry’s sustainability challenges we need to radically rethink R&D.

    Published: 8/05/2019

  11. INNOVATION - Do you want the inside scoop about which sustainable apparel innovations are hot and which are not? Then ask two passionate, albeit a bit wacky, business development and innovation experts for advice.

    Published: 2/05/2019

  12. THOUGHT LEADERSHIP - Jason Kibbey: “Beware of the ‘Circular Fairies’!”

    Published: 12/12/2018

  13. FINANCE & INNOVATION - Show me the money!

    Published: 28/11/2018

  14. THOUGHT LEADERSHIP – Linda Greer believes in radical transparency!

    Published: 31/10/2018

  15. INNOVATION – Akshay Sethi is convinced that all of our clothes will be made from recycled materials by 2030.

    Published: 17/10/2018

  16. CLIMATE CHANGE – Are you and your company serious about helping to solve the global climate crisis?

    Published: 3/10/2018

  17. INNOVATION – Style Lend & Good On You are betting that they can improve your consumer behavior.

    Published: 19/09/2018

  18. A Crash Course in Sustainable Fashion

    Published: 1/09/2018

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Fashion and apparel. It touches nearly everyone. When its at its best, fashion and apparel is not only functional, but also fun, expressive, sexy, and for some businesses, very profitable. But when it is at its worst, fashion and apparel is superficial, exploitative, polluting and extremely wasteful - in other words the essence of unsustainable consumption. And while it is argued that the industry's rapid growth has created employment opportunities for more than 300 million people worldwide, especially for women in poorer countries and those in extreme poverty, many garment workers still struggle to earn enough to pay to meet even their most basic needs. More alarming is the fact that as the industry grows - by 2030 more than 8 billion people will live on the planet, and nearly 5 billion of these will be part of the global middle class - its negative environmental impacts may become unmanageable, potentially undermining its social benefits and contributing to ecosystem degradation on local, regional and global scales. Who would have thought garments could be so destructive? The fashion industry must change now, but will we manage in time? Join Mike Schragger, founder of the Sustainable Fashion Academy, as he explores the challenges, incentives and disincentives and emerging solutions needed to rapidly transform the industry. Listen in as he talks with the business leaders, activists, researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs, investors, legislators, consumers and citizens - who are racing against the clock to find solutions that will transform the industry, thus ensuring it truly operates for the benefit of people and the planet. www.sustainablefashionacademy.org/podcasts/big-closets-small-planet
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