Fashion and the Climate Crisis: An Introduction to Sustainability
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Course overview
- Provider
- Futurelearn
- Course type
- Free trial availiable
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Course author
- Amanda Johnston
Description
The climate crisis is at a tipping point and time is running out for the fashion industry to address its impacts.
On this two-week introductory course, you’ll explore the fashion industry’s extractive and linear practices through a resource and materials-focussed lens. This understanding will help you discover the importance of a diverse, responsibly created materials mix for a planet positive fashion future.
Understand how the industry affects the carbon cycleAs you delve into the environmental impacts of the fashion industry, you’ll understand their role in affecting the carbon cycle. This will help you explore the critical need for new models and practices to address the current imbalance.
Discover how fashion interlinks with environmental and social justiceTo gain a holistic overview of the impacts of the fashion industry, you’ll also explore the intersections between environmental and social justice.
This knowledge will help you understand how making sustainable changes in the industry has wider impacts on people and the planet.
Explore regenerative design and other sustainable solutionsYou’ll explore the key initiatives, such as regenerative design, and organisations that are influencing the industry and driving sustainable change.
By the end of the course, you’ll have both the knowledge and hope of creating a planet positive fashion future.
