Library

Much of the information you need for information can be found in the first few stops on the Sustainable Style tour, before you visit the Lifers exhibition.  But the tour also points out climate change and sustainability links through the whole museum. You can visit different galleries directly through the links below as well.

Key Stops:

• Tour landing page

• Stop 1: Key facts about the fast fashion industry

• Stop 2: Key facts about climate change

• Stop 3: Lifers Exhibition

Gallery Stops:

Games for Change has some great resources for learning about fast fashion and choices for sustainability. You can find all of them at the link below, or visit them individually in the following lists.

Games for Change: Recycle the Runway

Fast Fashion

• Games for Change: What is Fast Fashion?

• Talking to kids about fast fashion and the environment by National Geographic

• UN Alliance aims to put fashion on path to sustainability

• Post-consumer textile waste and disposal: Differences by socioeconomic, demographic, and retail factors

• These facts show how unsustainable the fashion industry is

Synthetic Fibers

• Games for Change: Synthetic Fibers

• The contribution of washing processes of synthetic clothes to microplastic pollution

• Fast fashion’s addiction to synthetic fibres

• Synthetics & Sustainable Synthetics: Global Production

• Virgin synthetics can be hard to recycle

Social Media and the Trend Cycle

• Games for Change: Clothing Hauls and Social Media - Shortening of the Fashion Trend Cycle

• Good On You Sustainability Ratings

• What is Greenwashing?

Fast Fashion and Human Rights

• Games for Change: Fast Fashion and its Effects on the Global South

• Fast Fashion and Poverty Wages

• #PayUp Campaign

• The Impact of Fast Fashion on Garment Workers

• Child Labour in the Fashion Supply Chain

• Abuse and harrassment of women in the Fashion Industry

• How Fast Fashion is using the Global South as a dumping ground for textile waste

• The Aftermath of Fast Fashion: How Discarded Clothes Impact Public Health and the Environment

• Behind the Seams: Fast Fashion's Violation of Human Rights

• How the Global South is confronting the textile waste crisis

Alternatives to Fast Fashion

• Games for Change: Alternatives to Fast Fashion

Additional Resources

• Fashion Transparency Index

• The UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion

• Sustainable Fashion - A Guide for Teachers

• How Much Clothing do we Waste?

• The True Cost of Fast Fashion

• thredUP's Fashion Footprint Calculator

• Buy This, Not That! Project from Family Consumer Sciences

Games for Change has some great resources for building Stronger and Greener Communities. You can find all of them at the link below, or visit them individually in the following lists.

Games for Change: Stronger and Greener Communities

EcoRise links

• EcoRise.org

• EcoRise Climate Resilience Lessons

• EcoRise Sustainable Intellingence Program

Environmental Justice and Indigenous Rights

• Games for Change: Environmental Justice and Indigenous Rights

• What is Environmental Justice?

• How loss of historical lands makes Native Americans more vulnerable to climate change

• Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool

• Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook

Other Resources

• Map of US Billion-dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

• A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings

• Causes and Effects of Climate Change by National Geographic

• Youth for Climate Action: Breaking Barriers

Games for Change has some great resources for water and ocean health. You can find all of them at the link below, or visit them individually in the following lists.

Games for Change: Be Ocean Wise

The Ocean and Us

• Games for Change: The Ocean and Us

• The Oceans and Humans are Connected

• The Ocean Makes Earth Habitable

Species at Risk

• Games for Change: Ocean Wise's Species at Risk (SAR) Education Kit

• Species at Risk Education Kit

Plastics and Ocean Health

• Games for Change: Plastics and Ocean Health

• Ocean Wise's Ocean Plastic Education Kit

• Micro-Mystery - Ocean School - A lab activity to explore microplastics in salts

• What Happens to Microplastics in the Ocean?

• Plastic: The good, the bad, and the ugly (grade 8-12)

• Plastic Tracker - The Ocean Cleanup

Seaforestation

• Games for Change: Seaforestation: A Solution

• Ocean Wise Seaforestation - Plant Kelp, Fight Climate Change

• The Kelp Forest Ecosystem: Brain Waves Episode 2

Whales

• Identifying Cetaceans of the Salish Sea

• A New View on Killer Whales

• Underwater Noise Pollution - Hakai Magazine

• Beluga Mother and Calf Communication

Youth Action & Optimism

• Youth to Sea - Exlpore projects youth are leading for the ocean

• Meet our Members - TakingITGlobal - Explore youth around the world taking action for the planet

• Conservation Optimism blog

Additional Resources

• Ocean Wise Media Library

• BC Seaforestation Report

• Pollution Tracker - How polluted is your ocean?

• Ocean Wise Shoreline Cleanup

• This is a Sustainable Fish