Going green? Better start with your clothes

Driven by fashion or your conscious?

Because everyday joes can't afford the price of the new fashions, nor the speed that fashions change, new discount fashion stores have arisen and they have led to a new element of our fast-food culture called "fast clothes".

"But clothes — and fast clothes in particular — are large and worsening sources of the carbon emissions that contribute to global warming, both because of how they are produced and how they are cared for, concludes a thought-provoking report from researchers at Cambridge University entitled, "Well Dressed?"" Finish reading....