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- KPFA Radio Show: Envisioning an Alternative Fiber Future – August 2024
- Vogue Business: California advances bill to hold fashion accountable for its waste – July 2024
- The Guardian: The hidden plastics in our clothes- and how to avoid them. – February 2024
- British Vogue: Regenerative Wool Is The Future Of Your Wardrobe – Here’s Why – January 2024
- NHK World Japan: Episode 10: Fashionably Sustainable– March 2022
- EcoCult: How to Compost Your Clothes – March 2022
- Manitoba Co-Operator:One Year One Outfit Challenge connects people to land, textiles, each other -March 2022
- No Kill Magazine: How to Become a Slow Fashion Maker with Fibershed– March 2022
- The Circular Way for Wool, Leather, and Silk https://fibershed.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The-Circular-Way-for-Leather-Wool-and-Silk.pdf – February 2022
- Agri-Pulse: Farm-to-fashion offers local destination for California wool – September 2021
- Vogue Business: How a California Label is Advancing Farm to Closet Fashion – September 2021
- Civil Eats TV: Women in Wool – September 2021
- Driving Change: Rebecca Burgess’s Quest to Transform Cotton into a Regenerative Crop – September 2021
- Vogue: Regenerative Agriculture Comes to the Luxury Market With Co’s California-Grown, American-Made Capsule, Natural World – September 2021
- Welp Magazine: 20 Best Textiles Podcasts of 2021 – June 2021
- Navajo Times: Saving shepherds: Co-op aims to help wool growers stay in business – June 2021
- Grist: To rein in fast fashion, the U.S. needs to rebuild its textile industry – May 2021
- Denier: A conversation with Rebecca Burgess – May 2021
- TATTER: Soil Revolution: Understanding Textile’s Position in the Soil Cycle – May 2021
- Idea Stream: A Slow Fashion Challenge Aims To Grow Cleveland’s Local Textile Industry – May 2021
- Fast Company: Why Patagonia, Gucci, and Timberland are making a big bet on farming – April 2021
- Sustainable Brands: Trending: The North Face, Timberland, Vans Scaling Regenerative Supply Chains – Sustainable Brands – April 2021
- Vogue Business: The Future of Fashion, The Innovators – Season 2 Episode 4 – April 2021
- The Good Dirt podcast: The Regenerative Role of Local Fibersheds, with Rebecca Burgess – April 2021
- FIDM: Fashion Design Students Participate in Fibershed Zero Waste Design Challenge – April 2021
- GQ: Do You Know the Name of the Sheep That Made Your New Sweater? – April 2021
- The New York Times: Why Is Fashion Talking About Regenerative Farming? – April 2021
- Point Reyes Light: Historic sale for Black Mountain – April 2021
- One Earth: Cloth, Climate, Carbon, and Capital: Fibers in the Agricultural System – April 2021
- Financial Times: The new buzzword in fashion – March 2021
- Ethical Unicorn: Regenerative Agriculture: The Future Of Sustainable Fashion & How Fibershed Are Paving The Way – March 2021
- Vogue: What Has Biodiversity Got To Do With Fashion? – March 2021
- No Kill Magazine: Fashion Influencers: Women Reinventing the Future of Fashion – March 2021
- Provenance Capital Group: Investing in Regional Supply Chains Is Key to Building Regenerative and Climate-Positive Systems – March 2021
- Napa Valley Register: The art of natural dyes – March 2021
- Financial Times: Tracing a garment: Industry Looks to Shine Light on its Blind Spots – March 2021
- Vogue Business: Brands Are Adopting Regenerative Agriculture. Is That a Good Thing? – March 2021
- Regenerative Travel: Soil to Skin Textiles: Why Climate Beneficial Wool Fibers Matter – February 2021
- WWD: These Brand-Activists, Nonprofits Are Tackling Fashion Policy Head-on – February 2021
- Environmental Health News: From butterfly wings to shrimp claws: Mimicking nature on the nanoscale – February 2021
- Treehugger: The 6 Best Dryer Balls of 2021: Save time, energy, and money while reducing the chemicals in your laundry – February 2021
- WWD: Allbirds, ThredUp, More Ask Biden to Appoint ‘Fashion Czar’ February 2021
- Vogue Business: How to create positive impact with natural materials – February 2021
- Fashionista: DESIGNERS, BRANDS AND JOURNALISTS UNITE TO ASK PRESIDENT BIDEN TO APPOINT A ‘FASHION CZAR’– February 2021
- KWMR Radio: The Farm and Foodshed Report – February 2021
- Treehugger: Fibershed Wants to Know What Californians Have in Their Closets – January 2021
- Vogue: 7 major sustainability trends to watch out for in 2021 – January 2021
- Vogue: Greg Lauren Fall 2021 Menswear – January 2021
- Sourcing Journal: Can Regenerative Farming Combat Climate Change? Experts Weigh In – January 2021
- Treehugger: 6 Little Resolutions for a Better New Year – January 2021
- Treehugger: What Really Matters in the Fashion Industry? – January 2021
- Resilience: Bottom-up Biodiversity – January 2021
- Word of Mouth: Mendocino County’s Carbon Farmers: Harnessing Agriculture to Help the Planet – December 2020
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design: Fibreshed Field School Reimagines Sustainability, Starting with the Clothes on Your Back – December 2020
- Vogue Business: From circularity to climate change: Sustainable fashion in 2020 – December 2020
- COMET: COMET Quarterly December Newsletter– December 2020
- Ecocult: Higg Says Natural Fibers Are Worse for the Environment than Synthetics. Is That True? – November 2020
- Vogue Business: Sustainable Fashion Looks Forward to the Biden Era – November 2020
- Environmental Forum of Marin: Clothing to Dye For: The Story of Indigo – October 2020
- Vogue: This Design Collective Is Helping Fashion Embrace Regenerative Agriculture – October 2020
- Treehugger: Your Clothes Are An Agricultural Choice -October 2020
- Biomimicry Institute: The Nature of Fashion: Moving Towards a Regenerative Model – October 2020
- Vogue Runway: Mara Hoffman Spring 2021 Ready-to-wear – October 2020
- Morning AgClips: Consumers are driving a move to more sustainable cotton farming – September 2020
- Vogue Business: Are biosynthetics the future? – September 2020
- Neo.Life: Get Up to Speed on the State of Eco-Fashion – September 2020
- For the Wild: REBECCA BURGESS on Soil to Soil Fiber Systems – September 2020
- WWD: Short Takes: ‘The Root’ Podcast Series Launches Ahead of NYFW – September 2020
- CNN Style: What to read if you’re worried about the climate crisis and your lifestyle – August 2020
- Sourcing Journal: Biosynthetics vs. Natural Fibers: What Makes a Sustainable Material Sustainable? – August 2020
- CNBC: As The North Face battles Patagonia in outdoors market, it bets tackling climate change will pay off – August 2020
- Forbes: From The Red Carpet To The Wilderness: How This Actress Is Exploring Indigenous And Regenerative Practices – August 2020
- One Planet Network: Webinar: Keeping Fashion close to home for better and lighter living – August 2020
- Medium: Regenerative Fiber – August 2020
- Atmos:Fibershed: Forget Direct-To-Consumer. Try Soil-To-Soil – August 2020
- Botanical Colors: Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed – July 2020
- Ecocult: How Regenerative Fashion Goes Beyond Organic to Combat Climate Change – July 2020
- Greenfield Recorder: Farm to Clothing – July 2020
- Just-Style: Mapping Initiative Aims to Close the Loop on US Textile Manufacturing – July 2020
- Luxiders: The Importance of Soil Health and How the Fashion Industry Can Help – July 2020
- Sustainable Brands: Regenerative Agriculture the Linchpin for a Sustainable Fashion Future – July 2020
- Eco-Age: Inside Oshadi: The Collective Building a Regenerative Fashion Supply Chain in Rural India – July 2020
- Eco Farming Daily: Tractor Time Episode 43: Rebecca Burgess on the Farm to Closet Movement – July 2020
- The Globe and Mail: Innovators in the Canadian textile world are building a new model for clothing production – July 2020
- The Week: Mending: An ancient craft for modern times – May 2020
- Vogue Runway: Regenerative Agriculture Can Change the Fashion Industry—And the World. But What Is It? – May 2020
- WWD Digital Daily: Christy Dawn and Timberland Stay Committed to Regenerative Agriculture – April 2020
- Selvedge: Earth Issue – April 2020
- The Craftsmanship Initiative: Mending: An Ancient Craft for Modern Times – April 2020
- Cultivating Place: FIBERSHED: GROWING A HEALTHIER ECONOMY & ENVIRONMENT, with REBECCA BURGESS – April 2020
- Vogue Business: Where fashion’s transparency falls short – April 2020
- Eco-Age: Earth Logic: A Fashion Action Research Plan Putting the Planet First – April 2020
- Ecocult: 8 Books About Sustainable and Ethical Fashion that you Should be Reading Now – March 2020
- Vogue Business: Will Covid-19 Disrupt Fashion’s Sustainability Commitments? – March 2020
- Rivet: West Coast Way: California is poised to become the sustainable fashion capital of the United States – April 2020
- Vogue Business: The Impact of Fashion’s ‘Sustainable’ Capsule Collections – March 2020
- Daily Hampshire Gazette: Fibershed: A Green and Local Clothing Concept (Western Massachusetts Fibershed Affiliate Feature) – February 2020
- Petaluma 360: A patchwork of Farms, Artists, and Producers are Growing Petaluma’s Local Fiber System – February 2020
- Vogue Business: What the food industry can teach fashion about sustainability – February 2020
- WNEM.com: Frankenmuth Woolen Mill Celebrates 150 Years (includes Fibershed’s Climate Beneficial Wool program) – February 2020
- NorCal Public Media Bay Area Bountiful: Makers – February 2020
- Green Dreamer: Revealing the false promises of synthetic biology (Interview with Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed, Part 1) – February 2020
- The Land Magazine: Wear the Landscape – February 2020
- Eco-Age: Fibershed’s Rebecca Burgess: “What Do Clothes Have To Do With Agriculture?” – February 2020
- Vox: Fashion Has a Misinformation Problem. That’s Bad for the Environment – January 2020
- The Press Democrat: Fibershed brings local ranchers, makers together for locally made clothing – January 2020
- Oakland North: Donated and forgotten: The problem with second-hand clothes – December 2019
- Taproot Magazine, Issue 36 WEAR: Who Grew My Clothes? – November 2019
- Organic Spa Magazine: Slow it down: Fibershed puts the brakes on fast fashion – November 2019
- Impakter: KRUSing into the future with a local angle for fashion – November 2019
- Resilience: Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy: Excerpt – November 2019
- Modern Farmer: An Activists Farm to Closet Journey – November 2019
- Moms Across America: WHAT DO CLOTHES HAVE TO DO WITH AGRICULTURE? – November 2019
- Yes! Magazine: Building a Textile Economy, except from the Fibershed book – November 2019
- The Revelator: How to Make ‘Farm-to-closet’ Clothing a Reality – November 2019
- Vogue Business: Startups are developing plant-based alternatives to silk – November 2019
- The Peahen: Super Sustainable Fashion in San Francisco – November 2019
- Pebble Magazine: 5 Books That Will Ignite Your Inner Activist – October 2019
- The Sunday Times: Six Ways the Fashion Industry is Becoming Greener and More Ethical – October 2019
- Reading My Tea Leaves: Growing a Minimalist Wardrobe: Repair a Wool Sweater – October 2019
- Corvalis Advocate: Sustainable Linen Movement: Revitalizing Flax & Hemp – October 2019
- Fashionista: Fibershed Offers an Alternative Vision for the Future of the Fashion Industry – October 2019
- The Craftsmanship Initiative: Sustainable Fashion, Hands-on Education: a Fibershed Gala – October 2019
- Fashionista: Sheep Inc. Intends to Be the World’s First ‘Carbon Negative’ Fashion Brand – October 2019
- California Apparel News: From Farm to Factory, Fibershed Pushes the Industry Toward Responsible Fiber Sourcing – September 2019
- CSU Chico CRAS Blog: How Regenerative Agriculture Could Help Clean Up the Fashion Industry – September 2019
- Jefferson Public Radio: Slower Fashion, Smaller Footprint: Fibershed – June 2019
- Positive News: Moral fibre: the story of Bristol Cloth (Fibershed Affiliate, South West England Fibreshed) – June 2019
- EcoTextile News: Fibershed publishes sustainable fashion guide – June 2019
- Fashionista: Do We Really Need Any More Sustainable Fashion Brands? – June 2019
- Sustainable Fashion Alliance: Loved Clothes Last Mending Bar – May 2019
- Civil Eats: Synthetic Biology is Changing What We Eat: Here’s What You Need to Know; also on Eater: Why Genetically Engineered Foods Have Some Scientists Nervous About the Future – May 2019
- Kiss the Ground: How to Love the Soil Through Your Fashion Choices – April 2019
- The Reversing Climate Change Podcast with Nori: #71 Creating Carbon Beneficial Fashion Through Fibersheds—with Becky Porlier of the Upper Canada Fibreshed – April 2019
- Fashionista: Fashionista’s Complete Beginner’s Guide to Ethical Fashion Certifications – April 2019
- Sourcing Journal: Promising or Problematic? Agri-Waste Fibers Emerge as an Eco Alternative – April 2019
- Vogue Business: The ‘buy local’ movement comes to fashion – April 2019
- Coyuchi: What is Climate Beneficial Wool? – April 2019
- Fast Company: We have to fix fashion if we want to survive the climate crisis – March 2019
- Knitability: Discovering the Riches of Our Local Fibershed – February 2019
- Sourcing Journal: New Farm Bill Could Represent New High for Hemp Textiles – January 2019
- Edible Manhattan: Balenciaga, Gucci, and More Luxury Brands Set to Source “Regenerative” Wool – December 2018
- California Bountiful magazine: Have Shears, Will Travel – December 2018
- Kiss the Ground: 10 Ways to Love the Soil Today – December 2018
- The Sustainable Century: On Natural Fibers and Ancient Futures (Podcast) -December 2018
- Fashion Magazine: These Female Entrepreneurs are Making the Fashion Industry more Sustainable -November 2018
- Textile Arts Center: Local Fiber Movement – October 2018
- UNAUSA: A Field Guide to Reaching Peak Sustainability – October 2018
- OneWorld: Regional textile networks: the answer to fast fashion – September 2018
- Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator: Genetically Engineered Clothes: Forward Thinking or Harmful? – September 2018
- Elizabeth Van Delden: Rebecca Burgess about the Fibershed Podcast – September 2018
- FastCompany: These jackets are made from wool that fights climate change – September 2018
- Sourcing Journal: New Report: Biotech Fabrics May Threaten Farmer Livelihoods, Ecosystems – September 2018
- WT VOX: Genetically Engineered Clothes – The Ethics of Synthetic Biology in Fashion – September 2018
- Edie.net: The North Face expands ‘Climate Beneficial’ clothing line – September 2018
- Medium: Designing the Future – July 2018
- Conscious Chatter: Fibershed + Regenerative Textile Systems (podcast) – June 2018
- Watershed Sentinel: Fibreshed: From sheep to nettles to textiles, a visionary movement for full-circle local fibre production finds its roots on Vancouver Island (Fibershed Affiliate, Vancouver Island Fibreshed) – June 2018
- Civil Eats: Carbon Farming Works. Can It Scale Up In Time to Make a Difference? – June 2018
- Oregon Tilth: The Wool & Fine Fiber Book – May 2018
- Capital Press: Flax: What’s Old is New Again (Fibershed Affiliate, Pacific Northwest Fibershed) – May 2018
- Bioneers: Carbon Farming: Agriculture’s Answer to Climate Change – May 2018
- Brooklyn Tweed: Profile: Fibershed (article & video) – April 2018
- SF Chronicle: Bay Area eco-fashion 101: Who, what, and wear – April 2018
- Fast Company: 8 Highlights From The World Changing Ideas Finalists, From better hospital lighting to a hat that helps lower carbon emissions, a selection of more than 200 finalists of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards – April 2018 online; May 2018 in print
- Twist Collective: High Fiber – March 2018
- Alternet: Want Sustainable Clothing? It’s Time to Meet Regenerative Fiber – March 2018
- USDA blog: Conservation-Minded Purchasing: How Clothing Purchases Help Get Conservation on the Ground – February 2018
- Food & Fibers Project: Realizing the Potential of Wool: Q&A with Marie Hoff of Full Circle Wool (Climate Beneficial Wool product article) – February 2018
- Eco Warrior Princess: Connecting Farmers and Fashionistas: the Farm to Fashion Runway (Fibershed Affiliate, Upper Canada Fibreshed article) – February 2018
- Acres U.S.A.: Earth-Restoring Textiles: Regeneratively Produced Fiber – February 2018
- Capital Public Radio: How a Skeptical Rancher in Rural California Embraced Green-Friendly Farming, with Help From a Popular Outdoors Brand – January 2018
- KFPA Radio Your Own Health & Fitness: Fibershed – January 2018
- Yes! Magazine: The 150-Mile Wardrobe: A Solution for One of the World’s Most Polluting Industries – Winter 2018 issue
- Craftsmanship Quarterly: The Hidden Powers of a Sheep – December 2017
- EcoTrust: Exploring New Connections in Our Fibershed – November 2017
- Fast Company: This Hat Comes from “Climate Beneficial” Carbon-Positive Sheep – November 2017
- Ethical Style Journal: The Return of Hemp and Ongoing Research – Fall/Winter 2017 Issue
- Fringe Association: Slow Fashion Citizen: Rebecca Burgess & Fibershed – October 2017
- Permaculture Magazine North America: Growing Community by Growing Clothes: How to Start a Fibershed – Issue 06
- Mercola: How Natural Textile Dyes May Protect Health and Promote Environmental Sustainability – October 2017
- Craftsmanship Quarterly: Eco-Fashion’s Animal Rights Delusion – October 2017
- Coyuchi: Andrea Plell of Ecologique Fashion (recap of Climate Beneficial Fashion Gala) – September 2017
- SF Chronicle: September’s Coolest Collabs and Events – Fibershed’s Climate Beneficial Gala – September 2017
- For a Better World: The Regeneration Issue: A Soil-to-Soil Vision for the Fashion Revolution – September 2017
- Ecocult: 4 Surprising Reasons Why Environmentalists Should Wear Wool – September 2017
- Woolful Podcast: Rebecca Burgess – Natural dyeing, Regional fiber systems, Conscious Consuming, and Fibershed – August 2017
- Design*Sponge: 5 Tips for Sourcing Ethical Textiles with Mira Blackman – July 2017
- Bioneers: Carbon, Climate, Food, and Fiber (podcast) – July 2017
- Climate Showdown: Fibershed – July 2017
- Amirisu Magazine: Sourcing Our Fashion from Our Bio-Region – Summer 2017
- New York Times: To Fight Climate Change, Heal the Ground (features Fibershed members Skyelark Ranch) – May 2017
- Minnesota Knitters’ Guild: An Interview with the Three Rivers Fibershed (Fibershed Affiliate article) – April 2017
- Fiber Art Now: The State of Fiber Art Now – Winter 2016/2017 Issue
- Grist 50: Meet the Fixers: Rebecca Burgess is Stitching Together a Local Clothing Movement – March 2017
- CSU Chico: Regenerative Agriculture Initiative Seminar with Rebecca Burgess, Founder of Fibershed – February 2017
- Interweave magazine: The Continuous Thread – Winter 2017 (excerpt available online here)
- Rodale’s Organic Life Magazine: 100 Amazing Ideas, the Innovation Issue – January 2017
- Council of Fashion Designers of America: Five Lessons from the Fibershed Workshop – November 2016
- Sourcing Journal: Fibershed Leads the Movement in Sustainable Textile Systems – November 2016
- Magnifeco Radio: From Farm to Fashion – October 2016
- Star Tribune: ‘Buy Local’ Movement Raises Stakes for Local Fibers – October 2016
- Slow Food USA: From Field to Frock – the Promise of Slow Fashion – July 2016
- Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator: Fiber Producers Fight Climate Change with Carbon Farming – June 2016
- Harvesting Liberty short film media coverage – May 2016: The Cleanest Line / Inc. / Huck Magazine / Outside / Gear Junkie / EcoWatch / HypeBeast / Unofficial Networks / The Daily Beast / A Continuous Lean / Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator
- Toronto Star: Slow Fashion is Taking Hold – May 2016
- Magnifeco: Peggy Sue Proves Fibershed Potential with “New Labels” Prize – May 2016
- Seamwork Magazine: Building a Regional Fibershed – April 2016
- The Globe & Mail: ‘I could no longer be a hypocrite’: How Rebecca Burgess became an eco-fashion activist – March 2016
- Foodie Underground: The Female Farmers Who Feed and Clothe Us – March 2016
- Medium: 10 Eco Fashion Champions You Need to Follow on Social Media – March 2016
- Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator: 9 Female Farmers Changing the Fashion Industry – February 2016
- Sunshine Coast Life – January 2016 (BC Sunshine Coast Fibreshed Affiliate profile; article PDF here)
- Modern Farmer – October 2015
- San Francisco Chronicle – September 2015
- Triple Pundit – August 2015
- Alpaca Culture – June 2015 (also visit alpacaculture.com)
- The Guardian – June 2015
- Wild Fibers Magazine – Spring 2015
- Lexington Herald – March 2015
- Brooklyn Design + Fashion Accelerator – March 2015
- Fiber Arts Now – Winter 2014-2015
- Ecouterre – January 2015
- Naturalista – December 2014
- Permaculture Magazine – Winter 2014 (also visit the magazine’s website)
- The North Face – November 2014
- Fast Company – November 2014
- Sustainable Brands – November 2014
- Edible Monterey Bay – Fall 2014
- UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources – July 2014
- Edible East Bay – Summer 2014
- Press Democrat – March 2014
- Civil Eats – February 2014
- San Francisco Chronicle – January 2014
- Resilience.org – January 2014
- American Craft – August 2013
- Bohemian – June 2013
- Herald Times – May 2013
- Mrs. Meyers Clean Day – May 2013
- SynBioWatch – March 2013
- Wild Fibers Magazine – Spring 2013
- University of California/Grown in Marin – Spring 2013
- Etsy – January 2013
- SF Gate – January 2013
- University of California/Grown in Marin – Winter 2012
- KRCB radio interview – November 2012
- Handful of Salt – September 2012
- Slow Fashioned – April 2012
- Peppermint Magazine – Spring 2012
- Etsy – March 2012
- Chris Martenson – January 2012
- The Green Stylist – November 2011
- Fashion Projects – November 2011
- Eco Company – November 2011
- The Atlantic – October 2011
- E-Junkie – September 2011
- Huffington Post – September 2011
- .W – September 2011
- San Francisco Chronicle – September 2011
- CNCHnet webzine – Fall 2011
- Yes! magazine – August 2011
- Etsy blog – August 2011
- Ecouterre – July 2011
- New York Times – July 2011
- Fashion School Daily – June 2011
- KALW News – June 2011
- Bay Citizen – June 2011
- Garden Design – June 2011
- Modern Organix – May 2011
- Ambatalia – April 2011
- All of Us Revolution – Part 1, March 14, 2011
- All of Us Revolution – Part 2, March 14, 2011
- A Made Place – January 15, 2011
- Sustainable World Radio – October 28, 2010
- Living on Earth – October 15, 2010
- California College of the Arts – September 24, 2010
- ABC 7, KGO-TV San Francisco – September 21, 2010
- Treehugger – June 22, 2010
- SF Gate – May 6, 2010
- Oakland Local – May 5, 2010
- Cultural Energy Radio – April 21, 2010
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