Eco Friendly Fashion—Improving Your Environmental Footprint

It may surprise you to learn that the fashion industry is one of the largest global consumers of Earth’s resources: energy and water. If you’ve ever seen a fashion textile factory operating in the distance you can immediately see its consuming maw of water and power. On the other hand, the fashion industry is also an enormous contributor to environmental pollution and degradation, producing waste, byproducts and harming pollutants to water and air. In 2006, a study by Levi Strauss' researchers determined that the manufacturing of one pair of jeans is equivalent to driving 78 miles, running a hose for 106 minutes (imagine that in California’s current drought conditions) and providing electrical energy to a computer for 556 hours. Think about this fact then: 500 million pairs of jeans are sold in the U.S. alone every year.

Fair trade eco friendly fashion is one of the best ways to offset the polluting, resource wasting impact of mainstream fashion items. At SFAC, we offer a range of eco friendly (eco green) fashions from baby and child items to wearable accessories. Shop here with us and know you’re being a part of the solution, not the problem.

Here’s a useful link to a quick quiz to see how small or big your environmental footprint is: footprint.

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