Wearing Local
Rebecca Burgess has set up a challenge for herself: for one year, she will dress in clothes made in fibers that are grown ? and made ? within 150 miles from her California home. Burgess created The Fibershed Project to point out that commercially-made clothing has an enormous carbon footprint and to show that fashion can be both attractive and sustainable. Lonny Shavelson reports.
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