With an MFA in Textiles from the California College of Arts and Crafts and a love for cross-pollination, I am in the midst of developing a design think-tank and resource network for cultivating new ideas between environmentalists and fashion/textile designers. Through looking closely at environmental systems, by archiving traditional and innovative non-toxic materials, innovating with plant fibers and dyes, and highlighting systems of alternative energy and creative reuse (of which textiles has a history of 100,000 years in the making!) we can also hope for greater cultural and environmental synthesis in the process.

Food, Shelter, and Clothing, long known for being the three basic human needs, have much to share in this alliance. This is especially true for clothing as it relates to recognition and revival in the sustainability movement. As we enter further into the WorldChanging phase, this threefold platform has much to explore- as clothing and textiles have long been connected not only to material necessity, but to celebration of culture, ethnobotany, creative reuse, women, indigenous people, and, of course, an innate sense of place.