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Host Philip Berman talks to Maxine Bedat, Executive Director at New Standard Institute, the official sponsor of the Fashion Environmental Accountability Act, a new bill introduced into the California State Assembly at the start of February 2025 which, if enacted, would become the first law in the country to require brands to engage in “environmental due diligence” concerning their products and supply chains.   This Californian Bill is essentially the same as the 'New York Fashion Act' which was introduced into the New York State legislature in 2022 - though it's not yet law - and which is also backed by Maxine, The New Standard Institute and a broad coalition of industry folk including influential names such as, Rothys, Everlane, Reformation, Eileen Fisher, Patagoina, ThredUp, Circ, Vestiaire Collective, Stella McCartney, Ganni, Faherty, Cotopaxi, NRDC, Sierra Club, Canopy, Trove, EVRNU, American Academy of Pediatrics. Full list at thefashionact.org Maxine talks about both bills, their purpose, what stage they have reached in the legislative process. what it's like trying to push through groundbreaking legislation in two states on opposite sides of the US, simultaneously, whether her work has become harder with President Trump in the White House, and how she manages to build broad support with politicians of all persuasions. Subscribe to Ecotextile Talks podcasts on Apple, Spotify and Amazon Music or have a look around our complete podcast archive here.    

Matt welcomes Stacy Flynn, CEO & Co-Founder at EVRNU, to the podcast this week to enjoy some impressive Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs, and to discuss everything from Happy Gilmore and Prince to the ways in which her company is reshaping fashion's environmental impact. Together, they review Stacy's unique career trajectory and how it has her led to co-founding EVRNU - an industry leader “converting textile waste materials into ‘new' engineered fibers, which can be recycled again and again.”

Clothing and textile recycling has historically been scarcely available to consumers. It has yet to be successful, with clothing piling up in warehouses or being sent overseas instead of becoming a new generation of apparel. Stacy Flynn, CEO and co-founder of Evrnu, a textile innovations B Corporation, works to reduce the fashion industry's environmental impact with a circular, recycled cotton fiber called Nucycl. In this crucial conversation, Stacy discusses how we can encourage companies to stop making products while washing their hands of the environmental consequences of the take-make-waste approach to business. Fast fashion has inspired youth to wear clothing just a few times, but clothing can last and become an integral part of one's identity, not just when it's new. Making clothing last and recognizing and celebrating a fashion brand's durable clothing is one way to help create a movement for sustainable clothing and textiles for the home and office.Evrnu made a significant mark in the sustainable fashion industry with a technology that recycles cotton garment waste to create premium, renewable fibers. This process gives a new life to discarded textiles. It reduces the need for virgin resources, reducing waste and pollution. Nucycl is a biodegradable material made from cotton that can be engineered for various uses, from intimate apparel to waterproof outdoor gear. Evrnu is pioneering innovative solutions that are both environmentally responsible and economically viable. With the growing demand for sustainability in the fashion industry, EVRNU's goal of making all textiles recyclable by 2030 and achieving a net-neutral fashion industry by 2050 are bold targets we wanted to explore. You can learn more about EVRNU at https://www.evrnu.com/

Stacy Flynn is CEO and a founding partner of Evrnu, a textile innovations company. An accomplished sustainable systems expert, Stacy is committed to developing innovative fiber technologies that reduce textile waste and preserve natural resources. Under Stacy's leadership, Evrnu is working to solve the most pressing challenges facing the global textile and apparel industry. In 2019 Evrnu debuted NuCyclTM, a technology that transforms garment waste into a resource by recovering the raw materials for reuse. A future where textile producers, brands, retailers and customers reimagine their relationship with nature is now becoming a reality. Evrnu has been recognized as an organization making notable contributions to the circular economy as well as being an honoree in the 2020 Fast Company World Changing Ideas. Stacy is a TEDx and keynote speaker and a passionate voice of authority advocating for materials reuse for sustainability in textiles. She is an Unreasonable Impact Fellow, along with a cohort of CEOs that are advancing other world changing ideas. Prior to founding the company in 2014 with her business partner Christo Stanev, Stacy worked as a global textile specialist for nearly two decades in roles at DuPont, Eddie Bauer and Target. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Systems from Presidio Graduate Institute and a Bachelor of Science degree in Textile Development and Marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology. https://evrnu.com/ https://nexuspmg.com/

Evrnu® is a textile innovations company creating a circular ecosystem. A certified B Corp since 2018, Evrnu is already having a huge impact. They have been recognized by Time magazine as one of the top inventions of 2022, Stacy was listed as one of Worth's Worthy 100 in 2021, and Forbes has shared that Evrnu's recycled waste fiber could outperform 90% of existing textiles. In our conversation Stacy shares a peek behind the curtain, to the struggles that innovative entrepreneurs face and how she has navigated the pursuit of her personal mission. See full show notes for bonus content, click hereDirigo Collective Website

Tony is a leadership development expert who helps purpose-driven business leaders to thrive in life so that they can connect with others and contribute to the world.He is a former Fortune 500 executive with companies such as John Deere, Medtronic, and Buffalo Wild Wings. He has extensive experience in strategic planning, talent management, and leadership development.Tony is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, business coach, and a podcast host.Today he talks about the importance of finding a way to do things for the good of society. There are four main ways to do this, through his 4-S framework - Sell, Source, Staff, Share. By using one or more of these four areas, companies like Evrnu https://www.evrnu.com/  and http://www.arqlite.com/ are providing ways to have a positive impact on the world.A good point that was made is that these sort of innovations are the result of chance encounters. Most people think they don't have the ingenuity  to come up with such inventions or ideas. Tony feels it's a matter of getting out and about.  He says "miracles find you while you're in motion." It could be something as simple as an overheard conversation while you're in line at the grocery store, that leads to an introduction...but none of it happens if you're sitting on your sofa.You can download a copy of his best-selling book, "Crazy Good Advice: 10 Lessons Learned from 150 Leading Social Entrepreneurs", on his primary website, https://tonyloyd.comTony can be found in many places! Please check out all of his sites and social media presence on the many platforms: Thrive. Connect. Contribute.:  https://thriveconnectcontribute.com/Antiracist Voter: https://antiracistvoter.comCoaching practice: https://cultureshift.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TonyLoydSocialEntrepreneur/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anthonyloyd/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyloyd/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TonyLoydYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tonyloyd 

  For the 200th episode of the Spirit of 608 podcast, we had to bring back a special guest, fan favorite, visionary FEST pioneer and all around badass for an update episode looking at what kind of amazing things can happen in a couple years' time. Since the beginning of the Spirit of 608 podcast way back in the fall of 2015 (I know!), we have aimed to inspire, inform and entertain women in FEST so they push on and continue bringing much-needed change to an industry that, while slow to adopt it in the past, is, these days at least, hungrier for it than ever. Listen to this update episode of the Spirit of 608 podcast to hear what happened next for this game-changing guest and her brand, whose entire purpose is to change fashion by creating technology capable of completely transforming textile waste into new fibers and new garments. That in and of itself is cool enough to warrant our FEST-ive fan girling, but when you hear they recently landed $9M in funding, a partnership with Stella McCartney + more, it's hard to not listen to what this fabulous female founder has to say.Re-meet this week's guest, Stacy Flynn, founder and CEO of Evrnu. Sign up for the PressDope weekly email to get DIY PR tips and The Dope List of media opps, calls for pitches, FEST events and more ways to raise your visibility.

Molecular regeneration of garment waste by converting it into a high-quality resource applicable for apparel, home, and industrial end use… Stacy Flynn, CEO & Co-Founder of Evrnu SPC, joins Nataliya Makulova on location at ReMode Conference in Los Angeles. In this episode: Liquifying garment waste to a polymer level and turn into new clothing How the company was started in 2014  because a solution was needed that make a dent in apparel industry sustainability issues Why the process is like making pasta - push the materials through a dial that looks like a shower head Working with cotton, and how consumers throw away 80% of textiles into the garbage can A new fiber is recoverable stretch fabric Easy to recover and reuse stretch fiber (traditionally not as circular, difficult to break down) Thinking about what happens to a product after someone is done using it Allowing the apparel industry to grow while reducing ecological impact How it is very scary starting a business and putting everything in, especially when there is no example for people to imagine what this is and whether it can be successful Riding the waves of great day terrible day, great day terrible day How Evrnu is now accepted by incredible brands and investors are taking a chance on them Making money working with apparel brands and retailers to develop concept garments—as an outside R and D company to build products that outperform what virgin materials could do on their own Technology licensing, and the ability to quickly scale Use existing waste supply chain, closing the loop, creating disruption in the industry Not bypassing re-use channels

If one person can cause so much damage completely unintentionally, what can the same person do to turn it around? When Stacy Flynn traveled to the textile manufacturing regions of China and experienced the severe pollution it was causing, she quickly found herself asking this question. Surely, the billions of yards of fabric she had created in her 20 year apparel career had contributed to these conditions. “I never knew how damaging the way we make textiles is to the environment or the people living in that environment until I saw it in 2010…it stopped me in my tracks. Some people call it a moment of awakening, but I think it was more of a breakdown for me.” The Problem Stacy returned to grad school in pursuit of a solution and through her studies discovered two major problems. The first was the amount of resources needed for fiber. Specifically, it takes over 700 gallons of water to make one T-shirt. Stacy recognizes that, "water is the defining issue of our century and over the next 10-15 years, water scarcity is going to be evident around the world." The second was the waste on the back end. Stacy explained that we are throwing away nearly 50 million tons of clothing a year worldwide. Eventually, all clothing ends up in landfills and incinerators, even if there is a delay with rewear because we have no mechanism to break it down - until now. The Solution These factors lead the development of Stacy's company, Evrnu. Evrnu is a technology company that breaks garment waste down to the molecular level and extrudes it into a new fiber that can create premium new garments. Not only does their technology use 98% less water but it is even dying more efficiently, reducing the time it takes to create. “The objective was to make the fiber and yarn look like cotton, feel like cotton, but out perform cotton in some way,” Stacy explained. Evrnu now has one new fiber and five solvent systems that are cleaner and greener than anything else that is commercially available. How can you help? Whether it is through apparel donation or conscious consumption, small actions can make a big difference. Evrnu works behind the scenes with donation charities and suggests that everyone donates everything they can. In addition, seek out consignment shops and buy only quality products that are going to last. To learn more about Evrnu’s intelligent design and technology listen to the complete episode above or visit their website at www.evrnu.com.

Continuing the series of interviews, this week comes from Presidio Graduate School on Bainbridge Island, Washington (USA), talking with Stacy Flynn, co-founder/CEO of Evrnu (evrnu.com), which has a world-changing technology that can recycle used cotton clothing into better-than-new fiber. In the podcast, Stacy and I talk about why it takes so long to bring a technology to market, why that is such a challenge process, and along the way why you need a strong network of support to help you through not only the downs but also the ups. Post your questions to www.quora.com/profile/Luni-Libes Read the book at lunarmobiscuit.com/the-next-step See the results of The Next Step at youtube.com/fledgellc More advice at lunarmobiscuit.com/blog Music by Kevin MacLeod - incompetech.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/next-step-for-entrepreneurs/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/next-step-for-entrepreneurs/support

In episode 130, Kestrel welcomes Shelly Gottschamer, the head of sustainability and supply chain at Outerknown, to the show. A sustainable menswear brand co-founded by 11-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater + designer John Moore, Outerknown believes in building products by making every decision with the highest regard for the environment and the people they work with. "We're in an environmental crisis that we cannot ignore, so you have to kind of take that approach to business, and do what you can in business to sort of change that paradigm - and that's a piece of smash the formula. We really want to do things differently and inspire others by proving the case that you can do this." - Shelly Gottschamer, Head of Sustainability + Supply Chain at Outerknown In this episode, Shelly shares more on her personal journey, how she's had an interest in fashion since she was a young child, and the amount she learned about sustainability working with Levi's in the past. She also shares details on Outerknown's approach to fabric selection, as well as their multilayered system to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the humans in their supply chain. Additionally, Shelly explains in detail the ways that Outerknown is pushing the needle to take transparency + circularity to the next level. The below thoughts, ideas + organizations were brought up in this chat: Outerknown's Preferred Fiber Strategy: organic, recycled, regenerated. "Up to 90% of our raw materials fall within that preferred fibers, and the last 10% is really due to minimums as an emerging brand."  "I feel as a sustainable brand, unless you know your inputs, you can't really say you're a sustainable brand because your raw materials are on average two thirds of your environmental impact." Outerknown is a Bluesign Partner "We really need to change the way that we think about apparel. The take-make-use cycle needs to be turned into the reuse-reduce cycle, and figuring out how to take those inputs and put them back into a working system is super important and there's a lot of work to do there." Evrnu, fiber technology that is working to transform textile waste into pristine new fiber Outerknown has partnered with Bard University's Sustainability MBA program, where they are working to develop a Circularity Roadmap For Apparel Brands, which will be open source Outerknown has also joined the Ellen MacArthur Fiber Initiative, which is a three year plan to really figure out which levers need to be pulled to move toward a circular economy In The Copenhagen Fashion Summit's 2018 Pulse Of The Fashion Industry Report, Outerknown published their first three years sustainability strategy as open source (can be found on page 30 of the report) "I think that transparency is becoming a trend, and I think it's a good one." Outerknown lists all of their suppliers on their website here > Outerknown is a Fair Labor Association accredited brand Outerknown uses the Better Work Vietnam program (an ILO program) Outerknown's buttons are made in collaboration with Oceanworks out of recycled ocean plastics Outerknown's S.E.A. Jeans are now available - they come with a lifetime guarantee: Outerknown will repair or replace damaged jeans for no charge, because these jeans were built to last

Stacy Flynn is the co-founder and CEO of Evrnu - a textile company that recycles discarded cotton garments to create premium, renewable fibers that are tackling the rampant pollution and labor exploitation issues in the current fast-fashion market. She is actively reinventing the textile and apparel business model to preserve the future of apparel. Stacy and I talked about everything from polyester to LED light bulbs and the lessons learned in between. Music edited from 'Something Elated' by Broke For Free. freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_Fo…mething_Elated From the Free Music Archive. CC Attribution 3.0 Produced by Rachel James. Positively Gotham Gal is proud to be made in NYC.

Transforming textile waste into pristine new fiber at a molecular level… Stacy Flynn, CEO/Co-founder of EVRNU (fiber technology transforms textile waste into pristine new fiber. Evrnu has invented the only regenerative fiber made from post-consumer textile waste) joins “Fashion Is Your Business” hosts Pavan Bahl, Rob Sanchez, and Marc Raco at the 2017 WEAR Conference in San Francisco. Powered by Sennheiser. (Flynn’s profile)A wake up call, impacting the system’s lynch pin, and a prototype Flynn shares how working in a cloud of pollution gave her a wake up call, realizing a generation of kids who don’t see blue sky, realizing she was linked to the cause of the problem, and how 90% of all clothing is made from clothing or polyester, and we throw away 14 million tons of clothing waste a year in the US alone. She discusses the goal of taking waste and turning it into high quality fiber, impacting the lynch pin of the system, and how the surprising result turned out versatile and beautiful The vision of intervention with minimal disruption, how the first prototype took a t-shirt from solid to liquid to a solid, and the journey of how Target signed on as an early adopter.The holy grail of transformation, early adopters, and micro-manufacturing models Separating cotton and polyester on a molecunetorking lar level, how the holy grail is taking a blended garment, liquefying it, separating it then using the individual components, and new processes vs. repurposing existing processes. How the process is actually shapeshifting material, realigning molecules, and the process of pushing through spinnerette determines the final qualities. Samples, licensing, early adopters Levis, Target and seven more not public, and how marketing campaigns need proof now. The difficult truth that a colored t-shirt requires 700 gallons of water to make, helping brands with sell-through rates and sustainability, and why the ability to network helps now, looking at micro-manufacturing models, with small manufacturers linked together to become power manufacturing chains as a localized, globalized model.Reciprocity, the human spirit, and the Redwoods Finding ways to build business, saving the environment while honoring designs. The three part adopter program, and how reciprocity creates human solidarity. There is no algorithm on the power of the human spirit to solve a really big problem. And Off the Grid Questions covers the Redwoods, a heavy moment, and accidental eyebrow shaving. Hear more MouthMedia Network shows at www.MouthMediaNetwork.com.

Transforming textile waste into pristine new fiber at a molecular level... Stacy Flynn, CEO/Co-founder of EVRNU (fiber technology transforms textile waste into pristine new fiber. Evrnu has invented the only regenerative fiber made from post-consumer textile waste) joins Pavan Bahl, Rob Sanchez, and Marc Raco at the 2017 WEAR Conference in San Francisco. Powered by Sennheiser. (Flynn's profile) A wake up call, impacting the system’s lynch pin, and a prototype Flynn shares how working in a cloud of pollution gave her a wake up call, realizing a generation of kids who don’t see blue sky, realizing she was linked to the cause of the problem, and how 90% of all clothing is made from clothing or polyester, and we throw away 14 million tons of clothing waste a year in the US alone. She discusses the goal of taking waste and turning it into high quality fiber, impacting the lynch pin of the system, and how the surprising result turned out versatile and beautiful The vision of intervention with minimal disruption, how the first prototype took a t-shirt from solid to liquid to a solid, and the journey of how Target signed on as an early adopter. The holy grail of transformation, early adopters, and micro-manufacturing models Separating cotton and polyester on a molecunetorking lar level, how the holy grail is taking a blended garment, liquefying it, separating it then using the individual components, and new processes vs. repurposing existing processes. How the process is actually shapeshifting material, realigning molecules, and the process of pushing through spinnerette determines the final qualities. Samples, licensing, early adopters Levis, Target and seven more not public, and how marketing campaigns need proof now. The difficult truth that a colored t-shirt requires 700 gallons of water to make, helping brands with sell-through rates and sustainability, and why the ability to network helps now, looking at micro-manufacturing models, with small manufacturers linked together to become power manufacturing chains as a localized, globalized model. Reciprocity, the human spirit, and the Redwoods Finding ways to build business, saving the environment while honoring designs. The three part adopter program, and how reciprocity creates human solidarity. There is no algorithm on the power of the human spirit to solve a really big problem. And Off the Grid Questions covers the Redwoods, a heavy moment, and accidental eyebrow shaving.

November 5, 2015 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1WwRng7. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. Michael “Luni” Libes is the social entrepreneurs’ social entrepreneur. He created Fledge, an accelerator for social entrepreneurs that has now helped to create over $10 million in total funding for it ventures since its founding in 2012. The problem, as Luni sees it, is all wrapped up in opportunity. “The trouble is, the problems of the world continue to expand, while the majority of the money, infrastructure, and power lie in the for-profit sector. If only businesses solved the important problems of the world, their success would lead to profits, scaling up those solutions, then more profits, more scaling, and so on, in a virtuous, self-sustaining cycle.” Luni boasts, “Thirty-nine ’fledglings’ have graduated from the six Fledge programs run over the last three years. Companies such as Evrnu, making cotton recyclable; BURN Manufacturing and Obamastove, manufacturing clean cookstoves in Africa; Distributed Energy Management, conserving energy through financial management; Ensibuuko, modernizing the savings and credit co-ops of East Africa; Seeder, matching green builders with green building suppliers; East Africa Fruit, aggregating and distributing fruits and vegetables in Tanzania, Deehubs, at the corner of free speech and social media; Shift Labs, designing medical devices for the developing world, and dozens of others.” Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1WwRng7. Please consider whether a friend or colleague might benefit from this piece and, if so, share it.

November 25, 2014 - Read the full Your Mark on the World article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/1FkZX5C. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. Evrnu is a social enterprise with a mission to reduce waste by recycling cotton clothing. By taking clothing that would otherwise go into the landfill or be incinerated and converting into a usable textile fiber, Evrnu is allowing consumers a new choice in fashion. Founder Stacy Flynn said, “Sustainable practices and textile innovations like Evrnu that reduce resource extraction and waste will save the fashion industry from itself.” She notes, “The fashion world thrives on style obsolescence and consumption.” She hopes to fundamentally change the fashion industry by enabling ever-changing fashion to become more environmentally friendly. Stacy is presently raising money for Evrnu via a crowdfunding campaign on Indieogo, where, with just a week to go she is approaching her goal of $25,000.