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Title: Fashion Industry 2025: AI and Sustainability Trends

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5 Sentence Summary: AI has now disrupted the way we work and shop for fashion. There's also a Sustainability trend happening right now. Saying more people are valuing quality with a decent price tag. People have currently been buying luxury brand dupes with that reasoning. Gets into the way AI can become beneficial for a physical store, saying it can empower your sales and representatives and client advisers.

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The fashion industry faces a world in flux

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Explore how AI, sustainability, and geopolitical shifts shape the unpredictable consumer spending in the fashion industry 2025.

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Greenhouse gases trap heat causing an increase in Earth's temperatures

Greenhouse gases include: CO2, methane, water vapor

The more fossil fuels burned, the greater the amount of CO2 put into the atmosphere

More people = more burning of fossil fuels = more CO2 in the atmosphere

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Infectious Diseases

Diseases are spread by pathogens

Sometimes turns into a pandemic

ex) cholera, malaria, COVID, TB, influenza

Transmittable Diseases

Infectious diseases passed from one person to another by contact, air, water, or food

Organizations

WHO - World Health Organization (International)

CDC - Center for Disease Control (National - USA)

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Clean energy (no pollution)

Created by radioactive elements going through the fission process

Radioactive waste is the only concern (stored in Yucca Mountains, Nevada)

Chernobyl was a nuclear disaster due to the negligence of the lead officers

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Natural resource is burned to produce steam

Steam turns a turbine

The turbine turns a generator

The generator creates the electricity

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Nonrenewable

Resources that are being taken away and cannot be replaced

Resources which took millions of years to form from dead, decaying organisms

ex) coal, oil and natural gas

Renewable

Resources that can be replenished as they are being used

solar, wind, geothermal

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Recycling

Landfiills

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(Bratz artwork because of the brand's expansive wardrobe)

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Title: Waste Not: Textile Crisis

Link:https://www.interregeurope.eu/policy-learning-platform/news/waste-not-textile-crisis

5 Sentence Summary: Obviously, gives us a rundown of the history behind fast fashion. Leading into the question of if we can recycle our way out of this. Which is then said that we don't, but scientists are working on it. Also for humans to change their buying habits. That is super unrealistic, but again, scientists are finding a solution.

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Title: The Rise of Sustainable Fashion Shows

Link: https://oceanblueproject.org/sustainable-fashion-shows/

5 Sentence Summary: Begins with how people seem to hate the idea of working in the fashion industry nowadays. Now AI's becoming involved with the creation of the clothes. But even with AI, there's still unnecessary Textile waste. There's also supply chain disruptions, making a gap. Lastly, there's a higher rate of returns recently.

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Link: Fast Fashion and It's Environmental Impact in 2024

Link: https://carbontrail.net/blog/fast-fashion-and-its-environmental-impact-in-2024/

Link: Gets us through the history of how we ended up here, now being a huge power house. Now gets into the detrimental effects of what it's doing to us and the earth. Like how materials like polyester releases microplastics when washed. After, it claims the new generation wants companies to become Eco friendly and sustainable. Vague, the author gives us ways to buy clothes from sustainable processes, telling us to not be so greedy.

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The overall mission of Mendacious Couture would realistically be to contribute and find solutions for Textile Waste. Or to try and pass laws that'd affect fast fashion brands. Trying to slow the sale of their products and their growth. Anything to really try and stagger the amount of people buying and then tossing.

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1. https://earth.org/fast-fashions-detrimental-effect-on-the-environment/

FACTS:

1. The term fast fashion was first used in the 90's

2. Fashion production contributes to 10% of global carbon emissions

3. 85% of all textiles go to the trash

4. Washing clothes releases 500,000 microfibers into the ocean each year

5. The fashion industry dries up water sources

1. https://psci.princeton.edu/tips/2020/7/20/the-impact-of-fast-fashion-on-the-environment

FACTS:

1. Takes 10,000 liters of water to produce 1 kilogram of cotton

2. 20% of wastewater worldwide comes from the fashion industry

3. Takes 3,000 liters of water to make one cotton shirt

4. 35% of all microplastics are from synthetic materials

5. Polyester releases far more carbon emissions than cotton

1. https://earth.org/sweatshops/

FACTS:

1. Forever 21 receive new clothes everyday

2. Average sweat shop worker earns 58 cents

3. Workers in the garment industry are required to work 14 to 16 hours

4. In 2013, over 1,000 garment employees lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza Factory

5. 60% of garment workers in India were under age when they started working in factories.

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Cutting down forested areas to build homes, businesses, farms, etc.

Taking away trees, takes away from Earth's natural way of filtering out CO2

The more CO2 and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the warmer the temps.

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Sewage treatment plants

Plastic water bottles and plastic waste

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Deforestation

Habitat Destruction

Extinctions / Poaching

Logging

Loss of Biodiversity (Rain Forests and Coral Reefs)

Over fishing

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Current Population

Approximately 8 billion

Carrying capacity believed to be between 9-10 billion for some scientists

Others believe 12 billion is our carrying capacity

Concerns are lack of fresh water, food, overuse of fossil fuels

Human Population in different countries

China has One Child Policy

Japan and Italy have 2 of the oldest populations

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Waste has increased 400% since the 80's

Fashion being one of the top pollutants because it can't biodegrade

Only 1% of clothes are able to be recycled because we don't have the technology yet

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Fast Fashion

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Textile Waste (pollution)

Factory Farming (food)

GMO's (food)

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Year Long Project - Brainstorming Topics

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Year Long Project - Brainstorming Topics

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Plastic Waste

Sewage Treatment

Waste Management and Recycling

Loss of Biodiversity

Natural Resources: Electric cars vs. Gas cars and Shortage of Freshwater

Food: Factory Farming and GMO's

Pollution: Textile Waste

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Rescued Sunflower Stars from marine disease in 2014 and started repopulating them in a lab

Currently accepting donations so that they can expand their operation and raise the population even more

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Developed

Better technology

More available resources

More wealth

More people

Put more demand on Earth's resources

Developing

Less access to available resources

Less wealth

More people

Less demands on Earth's resources

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It's the amount of land each individual requires to live as we do

Measured in the # of Earths needed (average= 5-6 Earths)

Developed Countries = higher ecological footprints

Developing Countries = lower ecological footprints

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Early Focus: Conserve and Preserve / Focused on National Parks / J. Muir and A. Leopard were the earliest Environmentalists

"Take Action" Era: DDT was overused / Led to the decline of organisms/ R. Carson wrote Silent Spring because she noticed songbirds were dying off

Present Day: Technology is the new concern / Big concerns with plastics, landfills, pollution, e-waste, GMO's

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Original Organizations were Sierra Club and Audobon Society

Purpose: To protect and help preserve the natural world

Each organization has its own focus