Fast Fashion

Haley and Reyna gave a presentation titled "Ethics of Fast Fashion"

Fast-changing trends leads to more production and thus more waste.
The fast fashion industry uses unsustainable materials and unsustainable practices to push products that quickly go to waste--all while polluting the environment with the toxic materials they are using!

Drinking water is ironically scarce on this planet, and the potable water required to produce clothing is absolutely obscene! 
"The fashion industry is the second most water-intensive industry in the world, consuming around 79 billion cubic metres of water per year. That statistic is startling considering 2.7 billion people currently experience water scarcity. This all means that a massive amount of water is used to feed the fast fashion industry, all while billions of people lack an adequate supply of water to drink. To put that in perspective, it takes 2,700 liters of water to make the average cotton t-shirt and that’s enough drinking water for one person for 900 days." [Source]

Not only are the waste and pollution caused by the fashion industry giving Jeremy Bentham post-humorous nightmares, but the laborers in the industry are horribly mistreated. Workers are underpaid unlivable wages, forced to work in unsafe environments, and (often women) are exploited by their overseers (often men).

There are several things that you can do in your daily life to thwart this!
-> avoid fast fashion brands (shein, forever 21, romwe, etc.)
-> thrift and upcycle old clothing
-> shop ethically. Do your research! Think about the impact on the Earth before you buy. Think about where and how your clothes are sourced AND what will happen to them when you are done with them!

Attached is the PowerPoint Presentation for more details.

Project Committee Meeting Recaps

Engineering:

• Revisiting topics that were assigned are related to energy land:
  • Research energy sources
  • Research other topics related to energy land
• Writing the "story" for energy land
• Seeing if any other universities have done or are doing a similar demonstration.

Community Garden:

• Must compose a 5-year business plan for the garden before a site can be approved...
• Moving forward on compost initiative:
  • The farmer's market compost group will work with us!
    • They will accept pre-consumer waste (kitchen scraps).
    • We must acquire bins for collecting compost.
    • We must transport the compost to the farmer's market every week (2 weeks at the LATEST).
  • We need to communicate with Earhart's to sort out the specifics.
• Indoor gardening:
  • We have seeds for individual container gardening.
  • Madx has seedlings for several crops--including Prescott Variety tomatoes!
  • Contact Madx (colem18@my.erau.edu) for seeds or seedlings.
• Welcome Noelle and Nathan :3