A quest for broader transparency is enveloping the fashion industry. And it’s mostly happening from the inside out.
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Tailoring Transparency: The Fashion Industry Provides a Glimpse Backstage
Eliza Petrova
Eliza Petrova is currently pursuing a MSc in Business and Economics, with a specialization in Economics, and a Master’s in International Management (CEMS) at the Stockholm School of Economics. Having studied Mandarin at both Xiamen University and Tsinghua University in China, she continues to further her understanding of the region by working towards a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese Studies. Most recently, Eliza worked as a reporter at a news agency in Stockholm covering the global financial markets. While writing her Bachelor’s thesis, examining Nobel Prize winner Eleanor Ostrom’s principles of collective action in the preservation of common pool resources, she deepened her interest in resource economics. Eliza enjoys being part of multicultural settings and exploring new locations as diverse as the fast-paced track in Beijing and the serenity of the Norwegian fjords.
Recent Posts
What the Roskilde Festival Sustainability Lab Learned from its Rock ’n’ Roll Hosts
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith’s infamous vocalist, once noted in a flash of rock wisdom, “We believed that anything worth doing was worth overdoing.” Indeed, the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle, with its enthralling appeal, embodies elements of excess and waste.
Ecological Footprint: Thinking Inside the (Green) Box
We are currently exploiting 50 percent more resources than what the planet has the ability to regenerate. What can we learn from countries that have small ecological footprints?
Gamifying Sustainability: Fun and Games in All Seriousness
Gamification, the use of game elements in non-game settings, aims to add an element of excitement to everyday activities, in this way encouraging a particular type of behavior. Does it turn people into sustainability champions?
WRF Coffee Talk (5): “You Want to Know What Exactly You Are Buying”
In this WRF-series, Studentreporters are catching conference attendees during coffee break to ask them about what they do and who they are. This time: Sten-Erik Björling (Enviro Data) and Klaus Wiesen (Wuppertal Institute).
How Roskilde Festival Turned Into A Laboratory For Sustainability
After a weeklong whiff of concerts, parties and events at the beginning of July, the Roskilde Festival site was covered with piles of food leftovers, partially disassembled tents, empty beer cans and other waste. The festival, located some 30 kilometers west of Copenhagen in Denmark “is a micro-cosmos which displays elements of the sustainability challenges faced on a global level,” says Esben Pedersen, Head of the Corporate Social Responsibility department of the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). “If it has the problems, it should also be able to present the solutions.”