Fibershed
#MoveTheDate Solutions
Personal / Community: Community project
Nature sub-categories: Education, training, Ecosystem health, Conservation
Description: Fibershed is a non-profit organization that develops equity-focused regional and land regenerating natural fiber and dye systems. Our work expands opportunities to implement climate beneficial agriculture, rebuild regional manufacturing, and connect end-users to the source of our fiber through direct educational offerings. We are transforming the economic and ecologic systems that clothe us to generate equitable and climate change ameliorating textile cultures.
Website about this solution: http://fibershed.org/
Video about this solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSeG0W9eaxY
Why I love this solution: We envision clothing ourselves through diverse and decentralized textile systems that operationalize equitable soil-to-soil processes. We are uplifting the voices and strengthening the capacity of place-based grassroots textile communities that are directly enhancing their regional economies for the purpose of generating permanent and lasting systems of localized fiber and natural dye production. We see a nourishing tradition emerging that connects the wearer to the fields where clothes are grown in a system that can last for countless generations into the future. Through a host of scientifically vetted soil health-enhancing practices, paired with regional textile districts, we will create the new standard for textile material culture creation.