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“Fashion for Now”
In this issue you will enjoy meeting a selection of designers whose approaches to style will encourage you to mend your ways and consider what really counts among the fashion trends we follow in today’s world.
Be inspired and activated by a selection of fellow individuals intrepidly devoting their genius and energies to bringing forward practical solutions to heal the planet despite daunting odds. May their example inspire all of us to step up to the plate with ideas of our own on behalf of Mother Earth.
This issue proves the case that today's young generation is indeed the hope of the future as they effectively attack our environmental quagmire with courage, energy, ingenuity, precocious entrepreneurship, persistence, and compassion.
Prepare to be amazed by truly regenerative solutions to the man-made perils of climate change inspired by the plant kingdom in this issue. We show how nature’s adaptability and cooperation partnered with the innovative technologies of visionary humans have the potential to assure the survival of our ecosystem if we don’t delay.
“Sustainability, Style, Whimsy & Wit”
In this issue, we focus on fashion: the industry’s global environmental impact, and some fun and intriguing ideas to expand your fashion thinking and fire up your own out-of-the-box creative impulses.
This issue serves you up energizing brain food in the form of provocative eye candy and out of the box recipes for a healthy and sustainable future, all digestibly served up in trash for your edification!
In this issue, we invite you to share our enthusiasm over six young visionaries, aged 15 to 29, made out of what it takes to reset our planet onto a regenerative course.
Presenting our third issue with a selection of favorite new discoveries and inventions designed with the health of our planet in mind.
This issue on fashion focuses on some salutary alternatives to this ruinous linear model by younger designers and fashion activists from around the world.
We are excited to share our new quarterly online magazine! In each issue, we will be celebrating creative actions and practical ideas formulated and implemented by a global selection of out-of-the-box thinkers.
Zero Waste Periods Are Overdue. Period.
Menstruation matters! The average woman consumes 11,000 single-use tampons or pads in her lifetime, which largely come with toxic chemicals and take hundreds of years to biodegrade. Here we examine the opportunities for zero-waste periods.
Artist Vivan Sundaram elevates unwanted medical detritus into wildly chic, witty and subversive sculptural garments suitable for a highly sophisticated runway or cutting edge contemporary art gallery.
Meet Captain Charles Moore: the man that discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
An in-depth interview with inspiring world ocean ambassador, marine conservation researcher and urban farmer.
Youth is wasted on the young?
Not this time around...
Climate change, ecosystem destruction, and mass extinction: This year, it is young activists who are mobilizing world-wide to confront our most pressing existential threat.
Green at eighteen: Interview with L.A environmentalist Kevin Patel
MOoW Interviews 18 year-old turbo-charged Los Angeles teen-ager Kevin Patel who is mobilizing shifts in legislation with army of youth activists “If we don't do anything, what future is going to be left for us?”
Our MOoW Spring Runway features designers who have been steaming ahead of the fashion curve with colorful collections and wearable art. The mere shift to conscious use of fabric remnants opens up an explosion of playful, fresh ideas among forward-thinking designers.
Three companies transforming coconuts, grapes and fungi into ‘leather’
These three companies have invented incredible materials that imitate the texture of leather, while providing a sustainable alternative to the toxic leather industry.
Fast fashion is passé, slow fashion is the future.
This month we interview Eliza Edwards, the founder of slow fashion platform Slow Exposure and collaborator at cutting edge e-commerce SARDIN. Eliza is a 24-year old voice of the young generation, shedding light on positive fashion trends and the designers that are paving the way forward, slowly but surely.
This woman is weaving high vibes into the Indian fashion industry
An in-depth look at Upasana, an Indian social enterprise founded by a woman with an inspiring vision to empower rural women while restoring cultural textile traditions and Indian soils.
Plastic bags: a convenience that kills?
Plastic bags are absolutely pervasive across the globe - from the Americas to Asia, Africa and Australia. We explore this super cheap commodity with a new video and related article.
Global E-waste: Scourge and Opportunity
From resource extraction, to the careless dumping of these products, e-waste is taking a toll on people and the planet.
Now that you are informed, here are some concrete actions you can take to be a part of the solution.
Japan is mining e-waste for 2020 Olympic medals
The Japanese are at it again, a small country that is creative with their waste. Next year is their turn to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games and they are drawing attention to the issue of e-waste in a beautiful way.
Dell sources gold from motherboards protecting mother earth and you can wear it!
Computer giant Dell has committed to sustainable practices, capitalizing on its own waste stream with innovative processes. It sources gold from motherboards protecting mother earth and you can wear it!
Art Out of E-waste - Poetry? Sci-Fi? Whimsy?
Three distinctly different artists have each chosen e-waste as the prime material for their work precisely to avail themselves of its evocative potential. associations and reflections on the state of our world.
The Mexican city of Oaxaca is a unique example of the economic success that has resulted from resistance to the pressures of rampant modernization and consumerism. Thanks to artist Francisco Toledo, the city thrives sustainably on its own cultural terms.
What do Mickey Mouse, artist Kenny Scharf and trash have in common?
Don’t miss the last days of a total experience dedicated to Mickey Mouse that rings the nostalgic chimes of just about everyone: children, art aficionados, sophisticates, punk rockers, night clubbers, you name it…
Japanese company turns baseball bats into chopsticks
Japan raises awareness about its single-use chopstick habit and resultant deforestation by repurposing baseball bats traditionally made of a precious Japanese hardwood. The baseball bats are transformed into chopsticks that become mementos of their highly popular sport instead of winding up in the trash.
This company has figured out how to close the loop on plastic recycling
The industrialized world is endangering the planet with its addiction to disposable plastic goods of all kinds. A Canadian start-up has worked out a real solution to the proliferation of plastic waste with an ingenious process for breaking it back down into its primary form.
“Creative Cures for Hospital Waste”
We take a closer look at one of the most abundant waste streams produced in hospitals today and how its potential for adaptive reuse is the embodiment of the circular economy.
Banner Image: Artist: Veronika Richterová
Photo by Michal Cihlář