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Sustainability Education from the Ethical Fashion Forum

The Ethical Fashion Forum

“Is a network of designers, businesses and organizations focusing upon social and environmental sustainability in the fashion industry. The EFF aims to reduce poverty and create sustainable livelihoods by supporting, promoting and facilitating innovative values led business practices within the garment industry.”

In my opinion, EFF and ISO 14000 would be a match made in heaven. Currently, the EFF approach is:

1. INCLUSIVE: “The EFF provides a platform for shared practices, pooling resources, communication and links across the industry.” It is open to designers, retailers, buyers, fair trade producers, manufacturers, NGO’s, fashion teachers and students, as well as anyone interested.

2. PROGRESSIVE: Complex, global supply chains make it difficult for fashion companies to implement sustainable standards in a single step so the Ethical Fashion Forum encourages structured, progressive practices moving the industry towards sustainability.

3. GRASS ROOTS: EFF has been designed and developed by the industry, for the industry as it was founded by fashion designers and businesses in response to the many complex challenges transforming to sustainable practices.

4. NOT FOR PROFIT: As a membership org, (based in London) the EFF is focused upon
education and the environment, poverty reduction, and ethics like these in relation to the entire fashion industry.
Above image courtesy of the EFF Ads.

More Organizations with Ethical Fashion Awareness:

Written by Lucille Chi

Lucy Chi loves good green design, ethical fashion, environmental art and education, renewables, holistic healing and more. She has been dedicating her energies toward finding and drawing attention to all the ways in which products, companies, and industries are moving toward creating a more sustainable world on the global scale, as well as the way individuals are moving toward living sustainably, and healing at the personal level.

Sustainability studies: PresidioMBA.org &
B.S. Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Dept. of Textiles and Fiber Science.

Contact: lucillechi (at) gmail.com

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