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    Fast fashion brands lead us to believe it’s as easy as buy, buy, buy. There’s no time to wonder about the humans behind T-shirt production because we’ve found a good deal. Now, as we learn more about the human cost of garment production, we know fast fashion cannot continue. Garment workers are facing food insecurity, poverty, and unsafe working conditions. Changemakers everywhere have the power to work collectively and spark lasting change. Sure, regulating labor rights and protecting garment workers won’t be easy. But Ayesha Barenblat, founder and CEO of Remake, shows us we can all play a part in advocating for garment workers. In a conversation with Cory on the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Podcast, Ayesha explains why workers’ rights are central to the future of fashion. Fast fashion can’t continue distancing itself from the people behind the products. In this interview, we’ll dive deeper into factory working conditions and provide a roadmap for protecting garment workers and advocating for a better future together.Enjoy the full interview here, and find the corresponding post on our website below.More on Fast Fashion Factories — https://growensemble.com/fast-fashion-factories/Remake — https://remake.world/ + Emake's Brand Directory— https://directory.remake.world/Socials — Remake on Instagram — https://instagram.com/remakeourworld/#fastfashionfactories #fastfashion #garmentworkers #workersrights #fashionindustry🌎 KEEP UP WITH GROW ENSEMBLE: 🎬 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnkEPD9stzO2dpg-B5gfjgw?sub_confirmation=1💌 Our Better World Weekly Newsletter - https://growensemble.com/newsletter/🎤 The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast - https://growensemble.com/podcast/📚 Check out our Books, Guides, & Courses on all topics building a better world - https://growensemble.com/products/📊 Partner with Grow Ensemble on using content to build a community around your better-for-the-world business + mission - https://growensemble.com/advertise/SOCIAL: 🐦 Twitter*Grow Ensemble - https://twitter.com/GrowEnsemble*Cory Ames - https://mobile.twitter.com/AmesCory📊 LinkedIn*Grow Ensemble - https://www.linkedin.com/company/grow-ensemble*Cory Ames - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/
    How to End Fast Fashion Factories & Improve the Lives of Garment Workers | Ayesha Barenblat, Remake
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    Even if you’re not interested in fashion, the fact is everyone wears clothes. As social entrepreneurs and changemakers, it’s important to recognize how far we’ve come in the fashion industry. Reflecting on our progress gives us the motivation to keep going.In this interview, Host Cory spoke with eco lifestyle expert and serial social entrepreneur Marci Zaroff. They discussed fast fashion, its environmental impacts, and how brands are joining the momentum to disrupt the fashion industry as we know it. Disrupting the fast fashion industry may be a slow process, but the good news is we’re moving in the right direction. In this video, we’ll cover why eco fashion matters, how eco fashion has evolved, and what’s next for the fashion industry.Enjoy the full interview here, and find the corresponding post on our website below.More on Eco Fashion — https://growensemble.com/eco-fashion/ECOFashion Corp — https://www.ecofashioncorp.com/ + Marci Zaroff — https://marcizaroff.com/Socials — Marci on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/marci-zaroff-b5990a3/#ecofashion #sustainablefashion #fastfashion #cirularfashion #ecofriendly #sustainability🌎 KEEP UP WITH GROW ENSEMBLE: 🎬 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnkEPD9stzO2dpg-B5gfjgw?sub_confirmation=1💌 Our Better World Weekly Newsletter - https://growensemble.com/newsletter/🎤 The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast - https://growensemble.com/podcast/📚 Check out our Books, Guides, & Courses on all topics building a better world - https://growensemble.com/products/📊 Partner with Grow Ensemble on using content to build a community around your better-for-the-world business + mission - https://growensemble.com/advertise/SOCIAL: 🐦 Twitter*Grow Ensemble - https://twitter.com/GrowEnsemble*Cory Ames - https://mobile.twitter.com/AmesCory📊 LinkedIn*Grow Ensemble - https://www.linkedin.com/company/grow-ensemble*Cory Ames - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/
    The Evolution of Eco Fashion: What it Means and How it’s Changed | Marci Zaroff of ECOFashion Corp
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    Take a look around you—carpets, curtains, sheets, upholstery, the clothes we wear. TeXtiLes aRe evErywheRe! Textiles are so embedded in our everyday life that we barely notice them, let alone spend time visualizing all the textiles that exist in the world and those still being created.For this reason, and because textile pollution is much less visible than other kinds, we don’t usually think of textiles in terms of sustainability. And yet, the fashion industry is the fourth most polluting industry in the world after energy, transport, and agriculture.As such, considering the development of sustainable textiles and processing systems is central to addressing the climate crisis.Developing sustainable textiles and in a more sustainable way won’t be easy—the textile industry’s ubiquity and ties to agriculture, science, manufacturing, culture, and so many other fields means we must develop multidimensional solutions that reach across industries and ideologies.As Materevolve’s Krystle Moody Wood explains to us, it is exactly this ubiquitous and intersectional nature that makes the textile industry so poised to create revolutionary change. The sustainable textile movement is key to bringing about a more regenerative world. In this interview, host Cory Ames and Krystle discuss the current environmental impacts of the textile industry and how we, as both consumers and companies, have the power to ignite systematic change at every level.Enjoy the full interview here, and find the corresponding post on our website below.More on sustainable textiles — https://growensemble.com/sustainable-textiles/Materevolve — https://www.materevolve.com/Socials — @a_new_material_world (Instagram), Materevolve on LinkedIn —https://www.linkedin.com/company/materevolve/ + Krystle on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/krystle-wood-8887478/#sustainabletextiles #textileindustry #cirularfashion #sustainablematerials #ecoconscious #sustainability🌎 KEEP UP WITH GROW ENSEMBLE: 🎬 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnkEPD9stzO2dpg-B5gfjgw?sub_confirmation=1💌 Our Better World Weekly Newsletter - https://growensemble.com/newsletter/🎤 The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast - https://growensemble.com/podcast/📚 Check out our Books, Guides, & Courses on all topics building a better world - https://growensemble.com/products/📊 Partner with Grow Ensemble on using content to build a community around your better-for-the-world business + mission - https://growensemble.com/advertise/SOCIAL: 🐦 Twitter*Grow Ensemble - https://twitter.com/GrowEnsemble*Cory Ames - https://mobile.twitter.com/AmesCory📊 LinkedIn*Grow Ensemble - https://www.linkedin.com/company/grow-ensemble*Cory Ames - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/
    Sea, Soil, & Circularity: A New Guide for Sustainable Textiles | Krystle Moody Wood of Materevolve
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    The dirtiest item in fast fashion sits in most of our closets. With its use of cotton, chemicals, pesticides, and indigo dyes, denim has been making its mark on the environment for decades. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Changemakers in the fashion industry are disrupting the denim space. Brands like MUD Jeans are choosing recycled and organic cotton and leading the way in circular, sustainable production. We’ve talked to fashion industry leaders about how to reduce textile waste, what to do with unwanted clothes, how to shift from linear to circular fashion, and more. Today, we’re taking sustainable fashion a step further to talk all about denim production. Laura Vicaria is the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Manager at the first circular denim company, MUD Jeans. In this episode of The Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Podcast, host Cory and Laura discuss the challenges and opportunities of producing sustainable denim. In this post, we cover how MUD Jeans is leading the way for eco-friendly fashion, and you’ll learn Laura’s tips for sustainable denim production.Enjoy the full interview here, and find the corresponding post on our website below.More on sustainable denim & the denim industry — https://growensemble.com/sustainable-denim/MUD Jeans — https://mudjeans.eu/Socials — @mudJeans (Instagram) + Laura on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-vicaria-20b3b857/#sustainabledenim #cirularfashion #sustainablefashion #ethicaldenim #ecoconscious #sustainability🌎 KEEP UP WITH GROW ENSEMBLE: 🎬 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnkEPD9stzO2dpg-B5gfjgw?sub_confirmation=1💌 Our Better World Weekly Newsletter - https://growensemble.com/newsletter/🎤 The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast - https://growensemble.com/podcast/📚 Check out our Books, Guides, & Courses on all topics building a better world - https://growensemble.com/products/📊 Partner with Grow Ensemble on using content to build a community around your better-for-the-world business + mission - https://growensemble.com/advertise/SOCIAL: 🐦 Twitter*Grow Ensemble - https://twitter.com/GrowEnsemble*Cory Ames - https://mobile.twitter.com/AmesCory📊 LinkedIn*Grow Ensemble - https://www.linkedin.com/company/grow-ensemble*Cory Ames - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/
    Sustainable Denim: Is it Possible? | Laura Vicaria, CSR Manager of MUD Jeans
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    If anyone has a say on the best route to becoming a social entrepreneur, it’s our friend Madeleine Shaw. Madeleine has been an entrepreneur focusing on impact and social change for over 25 years. At age 25, she founded what would become Lunapads (now rebranded as Aisle), a Certified B Corporation that “was one of the first brands in the world to champion natural menstrual care.” Since then, she’s founded other nonprofit and for-profit social impact ventures. Now, Madeleine has assembled a book on her experiences and lessons learned, The Greater Good: Social Entrepreneurship for Everyday People Who Want to Change the World. Host Cory Ames had the pleasure of being an early reader of the book and welcoming Madeleine back to the podcast for a second time to dive deeper into the material they'll cover in this episode: How YOU Can Become a Social Entrepreneur.Enjoy the full interview here, and find the corresponding post on our website below.🔗LINKS FROM THE VIDEO:More on how to become a social entrepreneur — https://growensemble.com/how-to-become-a-social-entrepreneurMadeleine Shaw — https://madeleineshaw.ca/The Greater Good Book — https://wonderwell.press/books/the-greater-good/#HowtoBecomeaSocialEntrepreneur #SocialEntrepreneurship #SocialEntrepreneurs #socialEnterprise #Entrepreneurs #Business 🌎 KEEP UP WITH GROW ENSEMBLE: 🎬 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnkEPD9stzO2dpg-B5gfjgw?sub_confirmation=1💌 Our Better World Weekly Newsletter - https://growensemble.com/newsletter/🎤 The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast - https://growensemble.com/podcast/📚 Check out our Books, Guides, & Courses on all topics building a better world - https://growensemble.com/products/📊 Partner with Grow Ensemble on using content to build a community around your better-for-the-world business + mission - https://growensemble.com/advertise/SOCIAL: 🐦 Twitter*Grow Ensemble - https://twitter.com/GrowEnsemble*Cory Ames - https://mobile.twitter.com/AmesCory📊 LinkedIn*Grow Ensemble - https://www.linkedin.com/company/grow-ensemble*Cory Ames - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/
    How to Become a Social Entrepreneur | Madeleine Shaw
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    When thinking about how to address changes to individual action, it often starts and ends with raising awareness and building knowledge. However, the issue with this approach is that both knowledge and awareness only go so far if you’re looking to make a change. Unfortunately, for many of us who want to make a change for our communities and planet, simply informing people is often not enough to change their behavior.For this episode of the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Podcast, host Cory Ames interviews Brett Jenks, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Rare, which is an organization that is dedicated to utilizing behavioral insights to effectively encourage individuals to take action to help the environment. Enjoy the full interview here, and find the corresponding post on our website below.🔗LINKS FROM THE VIDEO:More on taking individual action for the environment -- https://growensemble.com/individual-action/Rare.org -- https://rare.org/Socials -- @Rare_Org (Twitter and Instagram) + @brettjenks on Twitter#ClimateAction #Sustainability #CollectiveAction #EcoConscious #ClimateChange🌎 KEEP UP WITH GROW ENSEMBLE: 🎬 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnkEPD9stzO2dpg-B5gfjgw?sub_confirmation=1💌 Our Better World Weekly Newsletter - https://growensemble.com/newsletter/🎤 The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast - https://growensemble.com/podcast/📚 Check out our Books, Guides, & Courses on all topics building a better world - https://growensemble.com/products/📊 Partner with Grow Ensemble on using content to build a community around your better-for-the-world business + mission - https://growensemble.com/advertise/SOCIAL: 🐦 Twitter*Grow Ensemble - https://twitter.com/GrowEnsemble*Cory Ames - https://mobile.twitter.com/AmesCory📊 LinkedIn*Grow Ensemble - https://www.linkedin.com/company/grow-ensemble*Cory Ames - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/
    How Individual Actions Contribute to Collective Action for the Planet | Brett Jenks, CEO of Rare
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