Exploring the evolving landscape of textile fiber assessment
Online seminar. Monday, 7th September, 11:00 – 13:00 CET
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Feedback 3rd milestone on ESPR (Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation)
Ingun Grimstad Klepp and Tone Skårdal Tobiasson have together given feedback on the JRC document Preparatory study (PS) on textiles for product policy instruments – 3rd Milestone. The object of the Preparatory study is to…
End seminar for CHANGE and Wasted Textiles
In order to set a final punctuation for two major research projects that have run parallel over the last five years, Consumption Research Norway Clothing division invited partners and interested parties to an closing hybrid…
A CHANGE of mind
Fashion and Policy discussions at the ISEE Degrowth Conference: As both CHANGE and Wasted Textiles projects are nearing their ends, and both projects focus on degrowing the textile sector (the latter more specifically the plastic…
How to speak so policymakers listen?
Friday June 27th 2025 Time: 11 -12:30 11th International Degrowth Conference Campus Blindern, Oslo
The proof ain’t in the pudding
It is common to hear and read about the environmental advantages of longer lasting products, it is everywhere from product advertisement to environmental policy and academic literature. But what is the empirical knowledge substantiating the…
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…
Post growth (?) fashion webinars
Dec. 13th 2024 15-16 CET (3-4 pm) and Jan. 16th 2025 15-16 CET (3-4 pm)
The Good Wool Collective’s first webinar
A new initiative from Sweden has surfaced, The Good Wool Collective, started by Lisa Bergstrand. As part of their inaugural webinar, Australian Wool Innovation’s Angus Ireland and I gave talks. The theme was the shortcomings…
New PhD makes a splash: The function of the laundry and the limitation in self-reported data
Chalmers University In the heart of Gothenburg hosted the defense for Erik Klint on September 6th. Klint’s PhD, consisting of 5 published articles and some additional published material, was discussed with professional curiosity and benevolence,…
TPR brought forward in What Fuels Fashion? Report
In the recently published report, What Fuels Fashion?, issued by Fashion Revolution, Consumption Research Norway SIFO’s suggestion for a Targeted Producer Responsibility method has received substantial attention alongside the Plastic Elephant report. In addition, the…
SIFO-paper presented at Degrowth conference: More durable, or fewer products?
Three days of multidisciplinary perspectives to overcome our society’s obsession with economic growth, sounds like a good way to round out the month of June? Obviously… Consumption Research’s Irene Maldini took the trip to Spain…