How We Got to CanopyStyle 500 – Stories from Campaigners
Amanda Carr: HOW IT ALL BEGAN: The Turkey Launch CanopyStyle is now 500 brands strong (and counting) but it all began with a Turkey launch nine years ago. We don’t …
Author: Amanda Carr
Lessons Learned on the Way to 500
We are so excited that CanopyStyle has reached the milestone of five-hundred global brands united to end the sourcing for viscose from Ancient and Endangered Forests. Together we use purchasing …
New Partnerships for CanopyStyle Close the Traceability Gap
Canopy is so pleased to announce our latest partnerships with Fashion for Good and TextileGenesis. On December 1, we joined Fashion for Good and TextileGenesis, along with CanopyStyle brand partners …
World’s Largest Fashion Brand Selling Only Green Shirts
By Amanda Carr August 2020 The big news in fashion is that Zara, along with all brands owned by its parent company Inditex, will be selling only ‘green shirts’ as …
Amazon joins CanopyStyle to help end the use of Ancient and Endangered Forests in viscose clothing
The CanopyStyle initiative has a new partner in the effort to help end the use of Ancient and Endangered Forests in apparel fabrics — online retailer, Amazon. Amazon has just …
Hot Looks for Textile Exchange 2019
CanopyStyle takes a closer look at this fall’s top forest fashion trends 1- Never Say Never When we launched CanopyStyle in 2013, leading viscose producers told Canopy that turning …
Keeping Nature in Your “Natural” Clothes
Back in the day (we’re talking just a decade or so ago), wearing an organic cotton t-shirt was THE green fashion statement. Maybe, if you were lucky, you would get …
Working together we will protect the forests
We all know that the majority of our shirts, pants and sweaters are “Made In China”. So when Canopy began our efforts to collaboratively find solutions to protect the world’s forests from ending up in clothing we knew it wouldn’t be long before our work took us to China, the land of massive production, pandas and bamboo.
No matter which way you skin a wolf it doesn’t create caribou habitat
A study makes it clear that the province’s massive wolf kill program – a 10,000 km2 aerial gunning and poisoning program – that has been in effect in west central areas of Alberta since late 2005 has had little impact in the efforts to stabilize caribou populations.
