Sustainability starts in the ordinary. If we want to induce people to change their consumption habits, we also need to rethink retail strategies. The three names chasing this noble objective are GreenPea, Staiy and Renoon – three proudly Italian companies.…
The world generates more than 2 billion tonnes of trash each year. One third of it never goes to a landfill or gets recycled – that garbage pollutes our lives. Even if we remove all the trash in our parks,…
As Marilyn Monroe used to sing: Diamonds are a girl’s best friends. Are they also friends of the planet? To Recarlo the answer is yes. The jewelry house, founded in 1967 in Valenza, by the Re family and famous for…
Bebe Vio won the second Paralympic gold medal in the female foil after Rio 2016. An example to follow for the many people whom, with great admiration applaud her tenacity, determination and joy of life as she has made of…
Gender equality, social inclusion and women empowerment are topics that we are becoming used to hear about more and more. They seem, simply because of their names, light-years away from the concreteness of daily life, but that in various forms…
Circular economy, research, education – four examples to follow in the name of sustainability. Brilliant projects that find in collaboration the key tool to grow an ecosystem in which companies, institutions and people can be leaders of change. In this…
The fashion industry has long had difficulty with inventory distortion and subsequently, poor sustainability practices. The frequent overstocks lead to enormous levels of waste and overproduction, in general, contributes to the decline of our world’s environment. In fact, nearly 20%…
In today’s world, we have so many throwaway items, but a mechanical watch is made to last and made to be repaired. The proof is in the museums that are full of them, still ticking away after hundreds of years.…
Vacation time, time for books. According to data from the Italian Publishers Association, in 2020 book sales have increased considerably, a sign that reading has been able to cheer the daily monotony we all faced during the pandemic. Books, unlike…
Inclusive fashion is shaping the way sustainable development is meant to be when we talk about sustainable fashion. As readers of the Sustainable Mag fully understand, the market for sustainable fashion is growing at a record pace. Even more consequential,…
Oceans and fashion, a combination destined to become more and more mainstream in terms of protection of the planet and source of raw materials for the fashion industry. Bizarre but true. The oceans produce between 50 and 80% of the…
Ludovica Gualtieri’s sustainable beachwear collection has its origins in the melting pot of her life. Hailing from the city of Mantua, she has always lived between the north and the south of the peninsula and presented her collection in Forte…
