Podcasts
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Wednesday, 16 December 2020Podcast: the critical need for ‘sustainable’ forestry
WAKEFIELD – In the latest Big Closets, Small Planet podcast, founder of the environmental NGO Canopy, Nicole Rycroft, and chief commercial officer of Austrian fibre producer Lenzing, Robert van de Kerkhof, join host Michael Schragger to discuss the… -
Thursday, 03 December 2020Podcast: Textile traceability: is blockchain the answer?
WAKEFIELD – Former BBC producer Phil Berman hosts our latest Ecotextile Talks Radio Show to find out how blockchain can be an important new tool for clothing retailers to provide real-time transparency in their supply networks when sourcing clothes… -
Wednesday, 25 November 2020Podcast: Is the SAC making a difference?
WAKEFIELD – Nearly a decade on from the establishment of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), this podcast explores the impact on sustainability of this innovative industry collaboration and speaks with the author of a recent report to find out… -
Wednesday, 11 November 2020Podcast: Sweden's textile chemical tax - part 2
WAKEFIELD - In the second part of our look at the Swedish government's proposed tax on chemicals in textiles, we talk to some of those in support of the project. Three experts join our host, Michael Schragger, founder of the Sustainable Fashion… -
Wednesday, 28 October 2020Podcast: Could Sweden’s chemical tax drive change?
STOCKHOLM – With a chemical tax on textiles set to come into force in Sweden that will incentivise companies to move away from harmful substances, the subject of the latest Big Closets, Small Planet podcast is whether such a regulatory framework is… -
Wednesday, 14 October 2020PODCAST: Is fashion a lost cause for sustainable investors?
WAKEFIELD – Sustainable investment expert Sasja Beslik explains why he thinks that fashion can be considered a "stranded asset", like coal or gas, but why - despite this - he still thinks it's worthy of investment. Beslik, who fled Bosnia when he… -
Wednesday, 30 September 2020PODCAST: Cracking textiles' chemical problem
WAKEFIELD – Ecotextile News expert contributor Phil Patterson argues that the way the textile industry uses chemicals is broken and offers a way forward. Patterson, chair of the MRSL Advisory Council and managing director at Colour Connections,… -
Wednesday, 16 September 2020PODCAST: Revisiting fashion's misinformation problem
WAKEFIELD - Our latest Big Closets Small Planet podcast revisits fashion's misinformation problem which was highlighted by a special Ecotextile News investigation - Busting Myths - late last year. Back then, we looked at some of the more… -
Wednesday, 29 July 2020Newscast: Forced labour and fashion in China
WAKEFIELD – We’ve just released episode two of the new series of Ecotextile Talks ‘behind the news’ broadcasts with our journalists John Mowbray, Simon Glover and Simon Ferrigno who give a round-up of the current situation on allegations of forced… -
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Newscast: Ecotextile Talks – Behind the News
WAKEFIELD – Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in our editorial newsroom? If so, why not have a listen to the first two episodes of our new series of Ecotextile Talks podcasts available on Apple, Google, Spotify and Deezer. Like… -
Wednesday, 24 June 2020PODCAST: How tax can help save the planet
WAKEFIELD – Femke Groothuis, founder and president of The Ex'Tax Project, explains the potential power of tax reform to transform the apparel industry at the scale and pace required. Groothuis, whose thinktank calls for the shift of taxation from… -
Wednesday, 10 June 2020Podcast: Breaking down barriers on climate change
WAKEFIELD – Breaking down mental barriers and reimagining communications on how to combat climate change is integral to aligning people around the world, argues Norwegian psychologist Per Espen Stoknes. Stoknes’ research into the psychology behind… -
Wednesday, 27 May 2020Podcast: Circular business models
WAKEFIELD - Circular business models, like clothing resale and subscription rental, are taking off - but to what extent can they replace today's retail models and deliver the radical sustainability improvements needed? Three industry pioneers join… -
Wednesday, 29 April 2020Podcast: COVID-19 - Are millions of workers at risk?
WAKEFIELD - Leading figures from across the industry join our host Mike Schragger, from the Sustainable Fashion Academy, to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on supply chain workers in our latest Big Closets Small Planet podcast. As millions… -
Wednesday, 15 April 2020Podcast: Is digital clothing the future of fashion?
WAKEFIELD – Two of the leading figures behind digital fashion house The Fabricant join our host Mike Schragger, from the Sustainable Fashion Academy, for our latest Big Closets Small Planet podcast. The Fabricant recently sold a piece of digital… -
Wednesday, 25 March 2020Podcast: The price of sustainability - $300bn
WAKEFIELD – Katrin Ley from Fashion for Good and Catharina Martinez-Pardo from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the authors of a new report on what it will cost to meet the industry's sustainability goals, join Mike Schragger from the Sustainable… -
Wednesday, 11 March 2020Podcast: Why fashion should not reinvent the wheel
WAKEFIELD – Lewis Perkins, president of the Apparel Impact Institute (AII), joins Mike Schragger from the Sustainable Fashion Academy, to outline his vision for accelerating change in the garment industry. Speaking in the first episode of a new… -
Wednesday, 27 November 2019Podcast: textile innovator transforms upcycled cotton
BARCELONA – As part of this year’s Planet Textiles sustainability summit Spencer Null, director of product development at Natural Fiber Welding, sat down with the Sustainable Fashion Academy’s Michael Schragger to discuss how his company upcycles… -
Wednesday, 13 November 2019Podcast: Lenzing CEO talks up environmental prospects
WAKEFIELD – Stefan Doboczky, the CEO of wood-based fibre supplier Lenzing, sat down with Mike Schragger from the Sustainable Fashion Academy to give a largely optimistic view of the big social and environmental challenges the textile industry faces… -
Wednesday, 30 October 2019Podcast: Shining a light on unseen workers
BARCELONA – “When you look at the supply chain of an average retailer, when you look at how many workers are registered in that supply chain as a hypothetical example, you can factor in that there’ll be five times more invisible workers than visible… -
Wednesday, 16 October 2019Podcast: Financing sustainable textile production
BARCELONA – Impact investor Tanvi Karambelkar, of the newly-launched Good Fashion Fund, and Abhishek Bansal, of Arvind - a vertical manufacturer based in India, discuss some of the challenges of funding the technological innovations needed to make… -
Wednesday, 02 October 2019Podcast: Textile microfibre pollution, an urgent problem?
BARCELONA – Though research continues to shed new light on the problem of textile microfibres in our oceans, Sophie Mather, board chair of the Microfibre Consortium, questions whether the proliferation of other micro-particles is muddy the waters of… -
Wednesday, 18 September 2019Podcast: here come the robots!
Advances in robotics and automated technology could potentially reduce the impact of textile and garment manufacture, but how does this play out for impoverished workers in developing nations? In our latest Planet Textiles Podcast, former… -
Wednesday, 04 September 2019Podcast: Chemicals, climate change and greenwashing
BARCELONA - “More of the same is not going to get us to where we need to go,” said the ever-outspoken global fellow for the Institute for Public and Environmental Affairs Linda Greer at the recent Planet Textiles in Barcelona where she sat down… -
Wednesday, 24 July 2019Overheard saying… quotes from the Planet Textiles Pod
BARCELONA – Planet Textiles 2019 saw the return of our Pod, in which leading industry commentators sat down to speak with the Sustainable Fashion Academy’s Mike Schragger. The videos and podcasts will be released over the next few months, and… -
Wednesday, 05 June 2019Podcast: Subcritical water – a boost for textile recycling?
WAKEFIELD – The Sustainable Fashion Academy’s Mike Schragger recently sat down with Luke Henning, founder of Tyton BioSciences, who explained how his company stumbled upon a new use for its technology that could shape the future of textile… -
Wednesday, 22 May 2019Podcast: H&M climate positive by 2040?
WAKEFIELD – Series Two of the Big Closets Small Planet podcast, run in partnership between Ecotextile News and the Sustainable Fashion Academy (SFA), is now in full swing. Innovation in Climate Action is this week’s focus. More specifically, host… -
Wednesday, 15 May 2019Podcast: mobile banking to save the planet
WAKEFIELD – In the third podcast of our new series, Mike Schragger speaks to Johan Pihl and Jacob Odqvist of Doconomy, who have developed a ‘mobile banking service for everyday climate action’ which they say makes it easier for consumers to join the… -
Wednesday, 08 May 2019Podcast: “The era of living in denial is over”
WAKEFIELD – In the second podcast of our new series, Mike Schragger speaks to Edwin Keh, CEO of the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles & Apparel (HKRITA), about his views on how the fashion and apparel sector is still playing catch-up with… -
Wednesday, 28 November 2018Podcast: Finance & textile innovation: show me the money!
VANCOUVER – Perhaps for the first time, sustainable solutions are starting to be scaled-up in the textile industry, but is there really enough investment capital available to ensure they succeed? Mike Schragger talks with Fashion for Good’s Rogier… -
Wednesday, 14 November 2018Podcast: Citrus textile fibres? Biodegradable glitter? Who knew?!
WAKEFIELD – Did you know that fruit waste can be used to create clothing? Or that glitter can be made from sources that are better than traditional plastic? Well they can. And in today’s podcast, Mike Schragger talks to Enrica Arena and Saba Gray,… -
Wednesday, 31 October 2018Podcast: NRDC challenges claims that circularity is a cure for fast fashion
WAKEFIELD – Today’s podcast features Linda Greer, Senior Scientist at the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) who joins Mike Schragger online from her office in Washington, D.C. to hear about her initial ideas on creating a climate roadmap for… -
Wednesday, 17 October 2018Podcast: Biochemist aims to change how polyester is recycled
WAKEFIELD – In our latest podcast released today, Mike Schragger talks to Akshay Sethi about the science behind polyester recycling, the rapid development of his company Moral Fiber, the steep learning curve he has faced when starting a company… -
Wednesday, 03 October 2018Podcast: Can the apparel sector mitigate climate change?
WAKEFIELD – Today we launch the second in a series of our new podcasts in partnership with Michael Schragger, Founder of the Sustainable Fashion Academy (SFA), which this week talks about the impact the textile and apparel industry has on climate… -
Wednesday, 19 September 2018New podcast series: Big Closets – Small Planet
WAKEFIELD – Today we launch the first in a series of new podcasts from Michael Schragger, Founder of the Sustainable Fashion Academy (SFA) and Ecotextile News, which looks at two new innovative platforms that aim to accelerate sustainable fashion…
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