Tourism, being Hawaii's dominant industry, has already contributed greatly to the global warming our environment is facing. However, combined with tourists desire to purchase island fashion, new ecological and social economical implications have developed.

Have you ever been seeking aloha, to find it was made in China? Vacationers in Hawaii might hope for some cultural island fashion, but what they take home is not often proved as local as they think, and contributes to the challenges facing unsustainable fashion.

It all begins with taking into consideration more than just the price tag of your purchase. Realizing that though a few more dollars might not be exactly what you were hoping to spend, and educating yourself to take environmental implications into mind, we will slowly start to diminish the large environmental cost of something we all love: fashion.