Anyone have any sustainable maternity brands or sustainable brands that carry maternity clothes they can share? I’m 2.5 months along with a good prognosis via our ultrasound the other day so I’m starting to really believe this is happening and that I need to invest in some clothes.
There's a lot of greenwashing out there, are the best materials organic cotton and merino wool? e.g. bamboo and other materials have to go through harsh processes (typcially), but what's the payoff? please let me know if youve tried sustainable activewear and what material/brand it was and if it was good or not?
Hello everyone!
Recently I have been really trying to live a more natural and "connected to the earth" life style just because I love the way it feels to do so. I really want to get more natural and sustainable clothing as my next step in this identity shift, however I also really love alt and specifically goth aesthetic and mainly dress this way now. I guess I'm just trying to find the loose flowing style of the all natural vibe mixed in with some more goth inspired clothing but I can't find any mashups that I'd want to spend the money on.
Anyone have the same dilemma and/or know where a guy could get something of the sort? Thanks!
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Hi everyone! I really love long colorful funky socks, but whenever I try to find them on the internet, they either cost 10 euros per pair or are on websites like temu.
I’m searching for a more sustainable and ethical option that isn’t too expensive and delivers to Europe. I’m not sure how realistic this is, since I’ve never managed to find them, but if someone has any advice or knows any websites I would appreciate it!
Hey all,
I started a side project to deal with greenwashing, and wanted a gut check from people who know how messy the information available online gets.
Most ethical ratings feel pretty subjective to me - "Not Good Enough" vs "Great" type verdicts. I wanted something more rules-based so I built a Python scoring engine that scores brands using evidence publicly available (certification registries etc.). Nothing scores unless it links to actual proof, so a marketing statement on its own is worth zero.
The core idea is matching specific issues to specific certifications. For each problem (I.e. living wages, microplastics, chemical use whatever) there's a set of certs that actually address it. So the engine asks two things per issue: does the brand hold a cert that's genuinely relevant to the problem, and is that cert any good?
The certs themselves get graded first based on how much they are worth - who verifies it, is third-party enforcement real, etc. - so a self-declared commitment doesn’t count the same as an independent audit of all factories.
The main limit to this method in my opinion is that certs cost money. So an independent brand doing everything right but without a certification scores 0.
I just went live with the first batch of brand evaluations for fashion. Does this issue-to-cert matching make sense yo you, or am I missing something obvious?
. Cheers.
