The Vermont Sustainable Libraries Working Group is offering a 3 part webinar series on Sustainable Textiles. The Hartland Library is a member of the VT SLWG. For more information please contact Liz or Nancy at the library. If you are interested in having any of these presenters come to the library for an in person program, please let us know.
April 26: Fashion Production: Where Do Our Clothes Come From?
Description: The global fashion industry is a system of production processes creating clothing, a human need. To understand how fashion production operates is essential to seeing the scope and complexity of the problems. In the first of the series of webinars, we will learn how our clothes are made from the basic fiber to a garment. As we learn about the diverse production stages, we will identify detrimental behaviors which are negatively affecting the environment and people. Kelly McDowell , MA in Social Innovation and Sustainability, will explore these concepts with knowledge and experience from her past career in fashion production in NYC.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMod-uurTksHtzb9BxKFFV63tOQZQMMuJa3
May 3: Sustainable Fashion Innovations
Description: Sustainable fashion, or eco-fashion, is the movement towards more "responsible" methods throughout apparel production, consumption and more. This follow up webinar will highlight sustainable solutions to combat fashion's unethical practices. We will learn what being more "responsible" means for all the affected stakeholders. As an expert in sustainable fashion, Kelly McDowell will provide solutions for you to be a more conscious and ethical consumer.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclcuqrrD0tGNNcI2A6h8frz5rH6_Gs5_YE
May. 10: Clothing is Agriculture: Hemp Fiber Production in the Northeast
There is so much ingenuity built into fiber technology of the past that sometimes it starts to look like poetry. A far cry from the visuals of polluted rivers and toxic workplaces elicited by the Global Fast Fashion Crisis we find ourselves in today. What kind of Culture are we creating with all we have learned on earth and the resources we have left? Natural Fiber is the seamless technology of a closed-loop future and circular time. In this third and final webinar of the series, fiber artist and farmer Laura Sullivan will share the journey of growing Hemp for fiber on the UVM extension research farm and what it would take to scale and industry in our region.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsfu-srz0uHdN5trmFy-2r6jK3lesTXoL7
Jun 30, 2024, 10:30 to 11:45 AM
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