GD3 PART2 Green comes with Fashion

Green comes with Fashion    

Stylish people like wearing fur, eating delicious food, round the world by plane. Environmental friendly people prefer wearing clothes which is made of cotton, eating plain food, riding bicycle to go to work. However, a green trend is started in fashion field and it is getting more and more strong and important. After luxury and naughty, environmental friendly becomes the new target in fashion field. Green life style is start to in relationship with fashion.

Environmental friendly ‘low carbon’ fashion trend

By prediction, a 400g polyester trousers can be wore for approximately 2 years. It spends about 200kW in its “whole life”. This is equal to 47kg carbon dioxide. It is 117 times of its own weight. For natural materials such as cotton, these materials are not made form fossil fuel. Because of that, the natural material consumes less energy and pollutant in the production. According to the research by the British Cambridge University Manufacture Research Centre, a 250g cotton T-shirt spend around 7kg of carbon dioxide in its “life”, which is 28 times of the self weight.

‘Low carbon’ fashion concept

“Low Carbon” fashion means reducing the carbon emission as much as possible in choosing material, design, manufacturing, selling and etc. in the process of making cloths or using low carbon emission skills and buying clothes from the shop with carbon emission trading. The well developed environmental friendly countries, such as America, carbon emission ticket have been introduced in the clothes. When the green trend is getting hot, other brands will also follow this new style – green.

Do it yourself

When the time passes by, some old and non-usable items must be appeared around us. Although they may loss the original function, the raw material has not gone bad. If we treat them as rubbish, they do not only give huge impact to the Earth. It is time for us to think a better way to treat them. DIY can be one of the good ways.

Using simple tools and creativity, you can make a unique DIY product. For example, turning the old shoelaces into cup mat, old book and clothes into a artistic sofa, the old bottle into the planter, etc. a series of DIY products which is belongs to you. Let these products make your life more beautiful and happy.

Learning DIY is less than a minute, does not need a lot of effort, sasily changing the old stuff into new product and ‘stay alive’ again. It also can be a good present. It can pass your mind to the receiver effectively. Each DIY product has its own characteristics. They are unique. DIY let our dream and imagination become true,sharing the creativity and enjoy low carbon life style.

“Do it yourself” do what you need, what you want, do unique product that never appear in the market, create for more prefect DIY product.

Introducing low carbon green vehicle – bicycle

Nowadays, life is getting hurry and the transportation, pollution and excessive consuming energy is getting worse. Bicycle is a green vehicle which is become more popular.

The population is getting high. The space for people to live is getting less. Using the space wisely should be one of the feasible solutions. Foldable bicycle can save the space and do not give any adverse impact to the environment. Using public transport instead of driving private car or even riding bicycle can make us and our city healthier.

The design of green bicycle not just design for cycling, it also comes with a stylish and trendy appearance. Low carbon and green life style is developing continuously green bicycle is going to be the first choice of transportation in the future.