
Call for submissions

Join us for a speacial session at the ISEE-Degrowth 2025 conference in June
2025 is the last year for the CHANGE project and one of the closing activities is a special session at the 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and the 11th International Degrowth Conference in Oslo, Norway, 24th – 27th of June 2025 (isee-degrowth2025.no) . The special session on “Degrowth dialogues in fashion: cultivating the seeds of change”, co-chaired by Kate Fletcher and Irene Maldini welcomes contributions by the 20th January 2025.
The latest…..
Books

Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion
Wool as a Fabric for Change
Ingun Grimstad Klepp og Tone Skårdal Tobiasson (eds.), 2022

Inclusive Consumptions
Immigrants’ Access to and Use of Public and Private Goods and Services
Anita Borch , Ivan Harsløf , Ingun Grimstad Klepp & Kirsi Laitala (eds.), 2019
Publications
News
Defibering the future
The Wasted Textiles project took the trip to Norsk Tekstilgjenvinning in Sandefjord, and were privy to an introduction to one of the few recycling projects that can actually have something to offer, as the founder Pål Erik Haraldsen…
Dutch textile policy envisions consumption reductions and production and imports quotas.
SIFO’s advocacy work is influencing international public policy, step by step. The Dutch Circular Textile Policy Program for 2025-2030, released in December 2024, includes measures to reduce the volume of raw materials used in textiles, including the reduction…
Telling it like it is: Lambasting consumer-facing Higg-based label
In a newly published article from Consumption Research Norway SIFO at Oslo Metropolitan University, Who Can Stop the Greenwashing, penned by Ingrid Haugsrud and Ingun Grimstad Klepp, the authors literally lambaste how the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (now Cascale)…
Continue Reading Telling it like it is: Lambasting consumer-facing Higg-based label
Events you can take part in
4th International Artefacta Conference: Resolutions
Conference, 13-14 February 2025 University of Helsinki, Finland
Post growth (?) fashion webinars
Dec. 13th 2024 15-16 CET (3-4 pm) and Jan. 16th 2025 15-16 CET (3-4 pm)
– The futures we IMAGINE
IMAGINE project end seminar When: December 10th – 15th 2024 Where: Litteraturhuset, Oslo
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