Do you like your jeans? Would you like them better if they didn’t take at least 1,800 gallons of water to make? Yoxi, a platform that challenges startups to solve pressing problems, is turning its eyes to fashion.
Even if you don’t enjoy the catwalk, you certainly enjoy having a t-shirt to wear in the summer or boots to wear in the winter. The fashion industry, however, is not the most eco-friendly. Yoxi’s “Trim the Waste of Fashion” challenge is looking for tech innovators to help undo some of the excessive waste created by the trillion-dollar fashion industry.
Creating clothing inevitably results in wasted fabric. The industry has also been accused of unsustainable material sourcing, massive carbon emissions, wasted and polluted water, as well as excessive packaging, according to Yoxi.
Yoxi starts its challenges by picking a problem and inviting application videos from teams around the U.S. A panel of expert judges then narrows the results down to finalists who then must further explain their idea. The public can vote for their favorite idea. The winning team will earn prizes as well as marketing and business support to make its good idea a reality. Teams are comprised of boutique owners, eco-fashion designers, social entrepreneurs, photographers, video directors, professors and students. Voting opens August 8 with winners announced on September 15.
Take a look through the videos with solutions that reinvent the process of making clothes. Is a platform like Yoxi the best way to solve fashion industry excess? Are you more likely to help after watching these videos? Let us know in the comments below.
1. Preloved Apparel
2. Raw
3. Sea Endless
4. The Factory 2.0
5. Trimndous
6. American Green Team
7. Forevermore
8. Smarter Clothing Project
9. The Triangle
Image courtesy of Flickr, Tasayu Tasnaphun
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Even if you don’t enjoy the catwalk, you certainly enjoy having a t-shirt to wear in the summer or boots to wear in the winter. The fashion industry, however, is not the most eco-friendly. Yoxi’s “Trim the Waste of Fashion” challenge is looking for tech innovators to help undo some of the excessive waste created by the trillion-dollar fashion industry.
Creating clothing inevitably results in wasted fabric. The industry has also been accused of unsustainable material sourcing, massive carbon emissions, wasted and polluted water, as well as excessive packaging, according to Yoxi.
Yoxi starts its challenges by picking a problem and inviting application videos from teams around the U.S. A panel of expert judges then narrows the results down to finalists who then must further explain their idea. The public can vote for their favorite idea. The winning team will earn prizes as well as marketing and business support to make its good idea a reality. Teams are comprised of boutique owners, eco-fashion designers, social entrepreneurs, photographers, video directors, professors and students. Voting opens August 8 with winners announced on September 15.
Take a look through the videos with solutions that reinvent the process of making clothes. Is a platform like Yoxi the best way to solve fashion industry excess? Are you more likely to help after watching these videos? Let us know in the comments below.
1. Preloved Apparel
2. Raw
3. Sea Endless
4. The Factory 2.0
5. Trimndous
6. American Green Team
7. Forevermore
8. Smarter Clothing Project
9. The Triangle
Image courtesy of Flickr, Tasayu Tasnaphun
More About: fashion, fashion industry, non-profit, social goodFor more Social Good coverage:Follow Mashable Social Good on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Social Good channelDownload our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
Posted on Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:03:14 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/Rki_1nyUQ-U/
Comments: http://mashable.com/2011/08/08/yoxi-fashion-social-good/#comments
