Minimalist Teen's Guide to Shopping Sustainably

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Minimalist Teen's Guide to Shopping Sustainably

Additional Resources

Additional reading and information to help you on your quest to shop sustainably!

Articles 📄

Slow Fashion

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What Does Slow Fashion Actually Mean?⁠

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Cost Per Wear: How it Can Help You Save Money⁠

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What Is Sustainable And Ethical Fashion?⁠

(Check out their Quick Links section)

Clothing Materials

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Natural vs. Synthetic Fibers: What’s the Difference?⁠

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What Are the Most Sustainable Fabrics?⁠

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How to Care for Different Types of Fabrics⁠

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Vegan Leather

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Is Vegan Leather A More Sustainable Option? The Answer Is Complicated⁠

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Is vegan leather worse for the environment than real leather?⁠

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Thrifting

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The personal, political, and environmental case for buying all your clothes secondhand⁠

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Thrift shopping is an environmental and ethical trap⁠

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Videos 🎬

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The life cycle of a t-shirt | Ted-Ed⁠

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The Ugly Truth Of Fast Fashion | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix⁠

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Definitions 📖

All definitions from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

greenwashing (n)

expressions of environmentalist concerns especially as a cover for products, policies, or activities

Example: “Misrepresentations or miscalculations of business practices’ environmental soundness, often called greenwashing, and fossil-fuel-industry subsidies are two examples of how climate costs can be obscured.”

microplastic (n)

a very small fragment or piece of plastic. Specifically, a piece of plastic that is five millimeters or smaller in size.

Example: “The Mariana Trench contains the highest levels of microplastics (most likely from clothing, bottles, packaging and fishing gear) yet found in the open ocean, offering irrefutable proof that plastics have penetrated even the most remote places on the planet.”

sustainable (adj)

of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged

Example: sustainable techniques, sustainable agriculture

of or relating to a lifestyle involving the use of sustainable methods

Example: sustainable society

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