Transcription of The Ethical Agenda EPISODE 7: XR BOYCOTT FASHION & XR FASHION ACTION
In this moving interview with XR Boycott Fashion and XR Fashion Action, Safia explores the response of the fashion industry to the “diabolical wake up call” of the Climate and Ecological emergency facing us today. Below, you will find the transcription of the podcast. If you would rather listen, the links are below: 🔊 LISTEN /safia-minney-meets-xr-boycott-fashion-xr-fashion-action […]
Zero Waste Sustainable Shopping – with Safia Minney, MBE Founder. People Tree adviser and author
Safia Minney writes: Have I ever told you about why I started Global Village in Japan when I was 26? People Tree grew out of Global Village, a voluntary group I set up to promote sustainable living – a topic that I have been revisiting recently in my new short film. Newly married, aged 26, […]
Why Safia Minney is calling for SDG18 – to be added to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Safia Minney writes: “An additional Sustainable Development Goal: #SDG18, would recognise the power of communications, media, education, and activism to promote the existing 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Safia Minney (@safia_minney) on Mar 20, 2019 at 11:25pm PDT The power of the advertising and […]
International Women’s Day 2019 – Today Women call for Equality & Democracy
Yes, I am a #GlobalFeminist – for the sake of Humankind Safia Minney writes: How many women are in the management team? How do you address women’s rights and inequality? Why are women in the lowest paid roles? What do they need to get into the higher paid roles? How do we stop undermining women […]
Slavery still exists – The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Here we are nearly 70 years later. December 2, The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, marking the adoption by the UN General Assembly for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of Others in 1949, yes, 1949! That was after WW2 and before the globalisation of supply chains as […]
Broken Fashion – sustainability and workers’ rights
With the BBC asking today “Can the ‘broken’ fashion industry become more sustainable?” Safia Minney writes: “Slow fashion has a low-environmental impact and high -social impact. It transforms lives and communities. The current fast fashion model is dysfunctional, being highly exploitative and polluting. We need to use clothing as a tool for change by increasing […]
Austria, DariaDaria and the Clean Clothes Campaign
A guest in Vienna, with DariaDaria and the Clean Clothes Campaign This week Safia visited Vienna, to speak at the beautiful arthouse cinema GartenbauKino in the heart of the Austrian city. ENTUZIASM KinobetriebsGmbH have been organizing events since 2016, on different environmental issues, from Zero Waste to Minimalism, from Water to the Paris Climate Conference. Safia […]
2018 annual UK TOP100 corporate modern slavery influencers’ index rankings announced
Safia Minney, MBE, has been recognised as the #9 influencer in the inaugural 2018 Annual UK Top100 Corporate Modern Slavery Influencers’ Index. Index recognises individuals from all business sectors, third sector, media and academia who are influencers in raising awareness to end modern slavery and labour exploitation. The inaugural 2018 Annual UK Top100 Corporate Modern […]
Po-Zu launches The Christmas Sustainable Style Edit
Sustainable Style Edit Could there be a clearer message from our planet, than the climate change of this summer and last few weeks, that we need to live more sustainably? The anti-plastics debate has hotted up too, with supermarkets moving to ban plastics from its fruit & veg aisles, and few fashion debates don’t touch […]
Sustainable Fashion Night, Shoreditch
Safia Minney speaking at the Sustainable Fashion night 17 July 2018, Shoreditch, London Organised by @OurFutureRocks @carlinnovates Safia Minney joins panel of evolutionaries (more to be announced soon): Orsola de Castro, Founder & Creative Director Fashion Revolution @orsoladecastro @Fash_Rev Safia Minney, Managing Director Po-Zu, Founder, People Tree @SafiaMinney, @slavetofash, @po_zu David Greenfield, Organiser, Circular Economy […]