Sustainable Talks with N&N – Details, episodes & analysis

In this talk you will learn at what you should pay attention if you want to make a sustainable brand and a sustainable design. Silvia started to work on sustainable design since 2009 and she build up something special: an holistic approach that goes beyond the marketing campaigns. One of our best talk ever, super inspiring with a great knowledge that really goes into the detail of the issue. Thank you Silvia

Starting from a waste material (leather skin) using another waste to make the tanning. This is a great example of a real circular product. A new way to tan leather with the waste of the olive trees. We are used to Chrome tanning, vegetable Tanning and lately to Chrome free tanning that is not always more sustainable. This new method it seems to have all the characteristic of all the above. In this case you do not need to look for leather alternatives materials because they will have or bigger impact (petrol) or/and a shorter life. In this talk, Thomas, not only share with us his view on leather, circularity and sustainability but gives us more details on this product.

NO Polyurethane, No Textile, No Leather: BUCHA BIO

How to make a material from Bacterial Nanocellulose textile from Kombucha Tea?
Zimri T. Hinshaw / ヒンシャ•ジムリ/ 金木栎 (小金) CEO of BUCHA BIO tells and shows us how he made it.
It is a brand new material we have never seen before.
Zimri founded Bucha Bio Inc. in New York 3 years ago and now they are ready to scale up production of MIRAI™ their luxury #Biotextile with a lot of energy from a 22 years old.

What makes him different and unique is that he doesn't accept compromise and he promised us to do not use Polyurethane (#plastic) in his material

He also uses only #plant-based dyes from Spira Inc. that allows to follow the fashion trend of coloration without an impact in the environment.

Is it ready for production?
They're moving into a pilot production facility in December, but Zimri has raised $550K in funds to move forward with production, garnering interest from several major fashion brands worldwide.
Thank you for sharing your project and good luck Zimri
#sustainabletalks #sustainabledevelopment#sustainablefashion #sustainablematerial #biodegradable#plasticfree #environment #vegan #vegetarian#materialinnovation #fashioninnovation #greenwash

Anna Mello Rella spent all her life studying natural plant dye in her  dye house Tintoria di Quaregna.  
With her passion of the nature she started already in the 90's to experiment the dyes with herbs that now become a trend. 
Who better than her can tell us how it is working?  
She can produce plant dye with the same technical specification of chemical dye in more than 60 different colours.  
Every color may need up to 10 herbs to be made.  
Lately she funded a brand called AMR Natural Colours where she use this natural dye with all certified material. You can find her product also in the Italian retail sustainable platform Green Pea  
Thank you Anna, you are an example!

Today we go out of our comfort zone and learn something new from an apparently different industry: GOLD  
Diana Culillas, Secretary General of the Swiss Better Gold Association (SBGA), guide us into the supply chain of gold  After giving us an overview of the gold supply chain she goes into the hot topic of the small-artisanal mining, the ones that we see in the most difficult conditions also from Netflix's documentary. 
There is a community that can't be left alone and need to have support to escape from a certain condition. 
We are talking about people that doesn't have much choice in life than working for very artisanal and sometimes illegal organisation.  
They would born somewhere else if they could but who can?  
Diana and her team make an incredible job linking this part of the society with Swiss Gold brand as Chopard, Cartier, Richemont, etc... and gives a second chance to those communities also allowing the brands to have a real impact in the society

Mechanical Recycling or Chemical Recycling? 
At first we thought that Chemical recycling will be more impactful for the environment but going deeper with Susanna she teach us something different.  
Susanna knows the fashion materials very well, from the chemical composition and she promote the innovations focusing on sustainable process and products  
Not only this, she will bring us into some real examples that we have seen in the news lately explaining what it means
http://www.cardato.it/en/en-home/
https://mudjeans.eu
https://www.renewcell.com/en/
https://circulo.se
https://infinitedfiber.com

A topic that is still very new but also very old: Mycelium   
With his great knowledge and very pleasant colloquiality, Maurizio guide us into this world between provocations and dreams  
He is Founder of Officine Corpuscoli, an Amsterdam based design start up, and Co-Founder of the Italian branch of it the North of Italy.  
How does this material works? 
What has not being said until now and what is it hidden behind very disruptive marketing campaigns?
This are only few of the topics of our longest and organic podcast so far.
https://mogu.bio
https://www.corpuscoli.com

If you are a leather person (and not only...) you don't want to miss this episode  
Stephen Sothmann, president at LHCA (Leather and Hide Council of America) guide us into the status of one of the biggest producer of raw leather in the world, US.  
Starting from an industry that is more and more under pressure he shares what's the truth. 
From the achievement on animal welfare through BQA (Better Quality Assurance) to the difficulties still in place to have 100% traceability and a clear LCA. 
 But also what is the real cattle green house gas emission and what has not been said about the alternatives materials  
This a more in this very insightful and inspiring conversation.
https://www.usleather.org
https://www.bqa.org

The fashion world seen from an outsider, Dr. Ioannis Ioannou  
Dr Ioannou is a strategy scholar whose research focuses on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). More specifically, he seeks to understand whether, how, and the extent to which the modern business organization contributes towards building a sustainable future. His academic work evolves around two main themes: a) understanding how the broader investment community perceives, evaluates and reacts to corporate engagement with, and integration of, environmental and social issues into strategy and b) understanding the multiple and multilevel factors that may affect the corporate decision to adopt environmentally and socially responsible strategies.

Interview with Michael Sondergaard and Birgitte Holgaard Langer ideators of a new project that make leather traceable 
From Farm to Shoes  
The only way to make sure a product is sustainable is to know what is inside In this case you don't need to ask but all the info are in a QR code