Three friends who moved to Loch Hourn in the Highlands of Scotland during the 1970s have seen first hand the impact neoliberal economics has had on the environment. This is their story. The Ecologist ...

That her self-realization did not make her happy is the tragedy of her life.” An 1857 portrait of Elisabeth at age 19 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons ... As fashion editor Diana Vreeland ...

We’re also seeing pushback against fast fashion by consumers anxious to do the right thing and not become part of the problem. Fashion Revolution was set up in the aftermath of the Rana tragedy ...

Tragedy of the commons explains resource depletion when individual interests overshadow collective needs. Exploitation examples include Amazon deforestation and fast fashion harming global ecosystems.

Men pay most attention to what is their own; they care less for what is common,” wrote Aristotle, describing the tragedy of the commons. Centuries later, Garrett Hardin would shape the term in ...

That is a tragedy. These collaborations adopted their designs to sidestep the sort of centralised information control that some countries, including India, have sought. Courts and the state would ...

For decades, the global garment industry has been marred by tragedy—fires ... investment-ready destination for global fashion brands and retail giants. Outside the cities, modern industrial ...

Credit: Hans Olav Lien – CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. American fast-fashion giant Forever 21 is set to permanently shut down all 350 US stores after filing for bankruptcy for the second time in ...

By contrast, as a historian of World War II, I never cease to marvel at the fashion in which the two great democracies ... was in a fractious mood as he prepared to address the House of Commons, ...

Sitalakhya River near Narayanganj, Bangladesh. Image by P.K.Niyogi via Wikimedia Commons. The many costs of ‘fast fashion’: In April 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza fashion factory collapsed ...

"We have to get serious about this and recognize that, unless we do something, we are in imminent danger of making a whole part of our Earth environment unusable." Humanity needs to start ...

It’s all like a medieval commons where everyone has the right to graze his animal. Or a fishing bank where boats can take as many fish as they like. Or a vast bison herd on a prairie nobody owns.