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A little information about me and my health & wellness background

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Introducing my 1 year challenge!

I didn't buy clothes for an entire year
"Fast Fashion"
My heart-breaking experience while travelling to poorer countries 

The decision to make a change

BOOK: The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store By Cait Flanders 

#1 Set the Rules
#2 Eliminate Temptations
#3 Look for Solutions/Alternatives
#4 Celebrate Milestones
#5 Remember Why I started

The Environmental Impact of Fashion

Wikipedia Article: Fashion is one of the major polluting industries in the world.

Main contributing factors:

• Overproduction of fashion items
• Use of synthetic fibres
• Agricultural pollution of fashion crops

New York Times Article:"more than 60% of fabric fibres are now synthetics, derived from fossil fuels, so if an when our clothing ends up in a landfill (about 85% of textile waste in the US goes to landfills or is incinerated), it will note decay"

BOOK: Fashionopolis The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas

2013 Rana Plaza Factory Collapse in Bangladesh [VIDEO here]

Fashion Revolution's Transparency Index

Sustainable Fashion

Addressing the whole system of fashion:

• Types of textiles
• Production practices
• Social, ecological, and financial systems

"Slow Fashion" 

Conscious Consumerism

Upcycling
Clothing Swapping
Clothing Donations
Consignment
Familiarize yourself with Sustainable Fashion Organizations and Companies

ConsumersAdvocate.org- a small organization that helps people make better-informed decisions based on solid research

List of Sustainable Fashion Organizations & Companies

My biggest takeaways from the experiment