Sustainability
How To Be More Eco-Friendly
Here’s your ultimate (+ easy!) guide to making more eco-friendly choices in your day-to-day life.
The Problem with Plastic
In honour of Plastic Free July, I thought it might be good to have a re-fresher on why plastic is so bad for the environment and why we should continue to phase it out of our lives - and if you do already know how bad plastic is and avoid it at all costs anyway, this can be a good reminder of why you’re doing what you do! Keep reading for the scoop on why plastic is so bad and to find out what the largest contributors to plastic pollution and how you can replace them…
Positive Eco News
If you don’t follow us on Instagram (firstly, you’re seriously missing out), then you might not know that we like to post about positive news stories now and then to show that the world isn’t all bad - though I don’t blame you if in recent years you have developed a pessimistic streak. In honour of this year’s World Environment Day (5th June) and World Ocean Day (8th June), I thought I’d follow suit and put together some of the positive things that have happened in the past year – with an environmental theme of course!
Invest in Our Planet
Every year on the 22nd April it is Earth Day, and this year’s theme is “invest in our planet”. This theme, according to EARTHDAY.org (the global organiser of Earth Day), aims to generate a greater focus on solutions to climate change and inspiring everyone, including businesses and governments, to do their part. So, in today’s blog post I am going to run through what investing in our planet can look like, from what us as individuals can do, to what governments urgently need to implement.
One Ocean, One Planet
If you still haven’t got round to watching Seaspiracy yet, you’ll likely have at least heard of the outcry it sparked. If not, you’re in for a treat today as we ponder why the Netflix documentary caused such outrage ahead of World Ocean Day tomorrow.
Re-learning to Share
As a kid, sharing was how we engaged with the world: share the TV with your sister; share your sweets with your friends; share a textbook with the person sitting next to you. As we grow, we develop our own sense of ownership over the things around us and our own lives. Unfortunately, our current capitalist society has taught us to prioritise competitive individualism and to find our value in the money we earn and the assets and commodities we gain with it.
Every Day is Earth Day
There is no way to detach ourselves from the earth - unless Elon Musk actually works out how to live on Mars in his quest to make humanity multiplanetary - thus we know that every day is earth day but through large-scale, collective celebrations organised around Earth Day we can get everyone else up to speed.
Earth Day is our chance to shout louder than we’ve done before (whilst continuing to bore the tits off our family and friends every other day). Starting tomorrow, we can all take part in 3 Days of Climate Action.
Valuing Water + How the Fashion Industry Doesn’t
Why, you may ask, is there an international awareness day entirely for water? In our everyday access to it we perhaps forget to value it for the beautiful and vital resource that it is. For those of us with this unimpeded access, we only tend to realise it’s essential worth when a local pipe bursts or our housemate starts washing their dishes when we’re in the shower. It’s also tricky to contemplate water shortages when we live on a blue planet.
Going Green in 2021
If being more sustainable was one of your New Year’s resolutions and you’re struggling already then we’re here to help! “Sustainability” has become such a general term that it’s hard to know where to begin. This week’s blog post gives you clear and useful tips on how to be kinder to the planet across different aspects of life. Some tips are easier than others but to start off with, just pick the ones that fit most easily into your life.
The Importance of A Sustainable Fashion Future...
When One Wear Freedom was created in 2019, it was done so with a clear purpose and objective. To create an affordable alternative, to the fast fashion culture that our society has become so immersed in. To contribute to the emergence of a more sustainable fashion future.