Make the Label Count Campaign: Simon J. Clarke, Ingun G. Klepp, Kirsi Laitala and Stephen G. Wiedemann. Summary Sustainability has become a priority objective for the European Union (EU). It is a key driver for… Delivering EU Environmental Policy Through Fair Comparisons of Natural and Synthetic Fibre Textiles in PEF
Hybrid event, 8th June 2022, 17:30-19:30 CET
Online and at Sentralen, Oslo
For the past three months Lea Gleisberg, a student from the Master in System Design program at HTW Berlin has been a part of our team. For her master’s project, she is developing a clothing… Say hello (and goodbye) to our student intern Lea!
OPINION: How best to deal with the negative environmental impact of the clothing industry? The writers behind this opinion suggest a system in which those who sell large volumes of clothes that don’t last pay the most.
The input is based on knowledge from these ongoing research projects on clothing and its environmental impact, supported by the Norwegian Research Council: Lasting: Sustainable prosperity through product durability CHANGE: Environmental system shift in clothing… Feedback to the EU Textile Strategy
Katarzyna Kobiela-Mendrek, Marcin Bączek, Jan Broda, Monika Rom, Ingvild Espelien and Ingun Klepp Abstract Wool of mountain sheep, treated nowadays as a waste or troublesome byproduct of sheep husbandry, was used for the production of… Acoustic Performance of Sound Absorbing Materials Produced from Wool of Local Mountain Sheep
Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Lisbeth Løvbak Berg and Anna Schytte Sigaard. OPINION: There’s no such thing as bad wool, only bad use. In the Norwegian folk song Kråkevisa (The Crow Song), a man-made everything from a boat, to… From burial urns to surfboards – wool can be used to make just about anything
2nd March 2022, 9.00-16.00 CET, Pilestredet 46 – Clara Holsts hus, Athene 1&2, OsloMet
Explores the importance of local practices in achieving global sustainability. This is a book about one fibre, wool, its role in the future of a more sustainable global textile industry, and a new approach to… New book on local and sustainable clothes
