Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy

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From the Publisher

photo by Kalie Cassel-Feiss

DAN MALLOY

surfing ambassador, Patagonia; cofounder, Poco Farm, Ojai, CA

PAUL HAWKEN

author of Blessed Unrest; editor of Drawdown

MEGAN MEIKLEJOHN

Sustainable Materials and Transparency

Manager, Eileen Fisher

illustration by Andrew Plotsky

From the introduction:

“Because we have been disconnected from the impacts our clothes have on land, air, water, labor, and our own human health for such a long time, we’ve been lulled into a passive, non-questioning state of being as consumers. When we begin reconnecting these dots, however, we create opportunities to build new relationships that are rooted in sharing skills, physical labor, and creativity, all of which carry meaning, purpose, and a way to belong to one another and to the land. While there has been important work in recent decades to ensure access to safe, local, nutritious food as a culture, we have largely overlooked the production of fibers and dyes that make up our clothing. In fact, when people hear the word clothing, most automatically think, Oh, I don’t care about fashion, and assume it has nothing to do with them. But clothing—like food—matters because we directly engage with it every single day.”

Chapters include The Cost of Our Clothes The Fibershed Movement Soil-to-Soil Clothing and the Carbon Cycle The False Solution of Synthetic Biology Implementing the Vision Expanding the Fibershed Model

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chelsea Green Publishing; Illustrated edition (November 19, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1603586636
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1603586634
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.58 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.63 x 10 inches