climate

Earth Day: Greta Thunberg calls for ‘new path’ after pandemic

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Climate activist says Covid-19 outbreak shows change can happen when we listen to scientists

Rowan Moore’s best architecture of 2019

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From hemp and cork buildings to energy-efficient council housing, the climate crisis got us thinking laterally

• Read the Observer critics’ review of 2019 in full here

32 global fashion and textile companies have signed a Fashion Pact for G7 meeting at Biarritz

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      Leading players in the fashion and textile sector are joining forces for the first time to launch an unprecedented environmental movement. 32 leading companies from the fashion and textile industry have given themselves a set of shared objectives in the form of a Fashion Pact. The coalition includes groups and brands in … Read more

The City of Essen is officially the European Green Capital

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The City of Essen, which is the only European city to have been awarded the titles Capital of Culture (2010) and European Green Capital, is entering into a green decade in 2017. The City of Essen is officially the European Green Capital. The Lord Mayor of Essen Thomas Kufen launched the title year. The award … Read more

Kenzo is going surfing in the Arctic Ocean

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Kenzo closed Paris Men’s Fashion Week with Fall-Winter 2017 looks for both sexes. Kenzo Creative Directors Carol Lim and Humberto Leon imagined a Fall-Winter 2017 collection “for people who experience as raw an environment as it gets and hope for it to continue forever.” In reaction to climate change, the KENZO team explores an utopic metaphor: … Read more