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Students Reflect on LIM’s “Alternative Spring Break”
Nearly a dozen LIM students and one alumna participated in the College's inaugural Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program, organized by the Office of Student Life. This new program took place over the College's scheduled spring break. ...
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Patty Buchanan on Climate Reality and Migration
Extreme weather catastrophes around the world are happening so often. Record-breaking hot days, typhoons and hurricanes, floods and droughts, and fires are getting the attention of the world. These extreme conditions are partly due to humans ...
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Sustainability and Texworld
Have you ever thought about what your clothes are made of or where your clothes came from? Where do all your donated clothes end up? Or do you just throw your clothes away and never think about them again? Perhaps you thought nothing because ‘out ...
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Karenna Gore on Climate Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
On Monday, February 4, our Sustainability and the Future of Fashion class at LIM College shared a conversation with Founder and Director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, Karenna Gore. We spoke about climate change ...
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Sustainability at Patagonia
Recently, our Introduction to the Fashion Business class visited the Patagonia store in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.
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3 Critical Questions about the Health of our Planet
On Wednesday, October 17, LIM College's Sustainability and the Future of Fashion course took place in Fashionopolis, where professors and students heard special guest lecturer Dr. Chandu Visweswariah discuss climate change. The founding ...
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Setting Sustainability Examples at Coterie
On September 17, our Sustainability and the Future of Fashion class attended the Coterie women's wear trade show at the Javits Center in New York. This year, Coterie collaborated with the United Nations to support their Sustainable Development ...
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Climate Reality
When pursuing a future in fashion sustainability, it is imperative to be an Earth-systems thinker. When thinking of sustainable solutions, we should keep in mind that a change to one sphere will negatively affect all spheres. The four spheres: ...
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Great Sustainable Sourcing
Exploring Texworld USA with my Sustainability and Future of Fashion class at the Jacob K. Javits Center was a great opportunity! We started the day with a tour. Louis Gerin and Gregory Lamaud talked to the class on how sustainability is making a ...