OEcotextiles

Indulgent yet responsible fabrics

Textile Industry and Climate Change

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

“I believe we stand at a turning point in history. For the first time, humans are no longer just affected by weather cycles, we are affecting those cycles—and suffering the consequences of doing so.” Patricia Espinosa,  UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Climate change is without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most pressing problems …

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The promise of biotechnology

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

Plastics are a problem – and becoming more of a problem as time goes on because of our voracious appetite for the stuff: global plastic production grew by more than 500% over the past 30 years.  And we have limited fossil fuels available –  that fact alone dwarfs the plastics problem because we depend on …

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