Fashion Brands Are Claiming To Be ‘Carbon Neutral’ — But Is It Greenwashing?

There was a time when climate change seemed like one piece on the checkerboard of world problems, a piece perhaps sandwiched between war in a remote country and the fact that the bees were dying, which you knew you were supposed to be upset about even if you weren’t sure exactly why. But then a terrifying article in New York Magazine about the soon-to-be “uninhabitable earth” went viral, and teens all over the world ditched school to protest in the streets, and fires ravaged California and storms pummeled the Bahamas, and a bunch of UN scientists told us we had a little over a decade to turn things around. In short: The zeitgeist began to change. For many, climate change went from feeling like one problem piece out of many to the board on which the whole game is played. Read more at Fashionista.