Re.Vert Ventures, Stories From Impact Entrepreneurs

In the 6th segment of this series, we take a look a company is helping extend the use phase of our garments post purchase. I speak with Rachel Sterling, the co-founder of Alternew. Alternew offers bespoke tailoring and repair services for brands by connecting them and their users to local tailoring shops. This allows customers to tailor their clothes upon purchase to ensure perfect fit easily. In this episode we discuss: The business case of extending a garments life to redu...

In the 4th segment of this season we focus on addressing the textile waste created in the design and manufacturing of our garments. We speak with Jessica Schreiber, the founder of Fabscrap, an organization diverting textile waste from landfills and creating a system for reuse and recycling. Fabscrap focuses on responsibly managing the waste found between the stages of a garment's design and production. In this conversation, we speak about: Forgotten waste components of garment design Fas...

In the second episode of this season, we get to speak with Dan Robichaud-Carew, the Head of software and product management at Unspun, an innovative fashion tech company creating 3D weaved garments through their proprietary Vega manufacturing system. In this conversation we speak all things: the stagnant manufacturing industrywhat makes the fashion industry so different to other sectorsopportunities to innovate within the industry The manufacturing segment of the supply chain is fr...

Too often we look at sustainability and issues of our climate in isolation. Achieving Sustainability in reality requires addressing our issues in a systemic approach, understanding how our actions impact those before and after us, to ensure we are not passing down more problems and responsibility down the line. While each industry has its own unique factors, most supply chain's are fragmented, only enhanced through globalization, resulting in the most impactful stages operating in place...

In today's final interview episode of season 1, I get to speak with Beto Bina, the co-founder of Farfarm, an organization that works at the intersection of strategy, supply chain and impact. FarFarm supports brands creating sustainable products by sourcing materials in an agroforestry system, meaning sourcing natural materials in a way that promotes tree growth and native agriculture production all while supporting social development, primarily in his home country of Brazil. In other wo...

Miranda Massie is the founder and director of the Climate Museum, the first museum in the US dedicated to the climate crisis. The museum mobilizes the power of arts and cultural programming to accelerate the crucial shift toward climate dialogue and action, connecting people and advancing just solutions. The museum shines a light and uplifts the voices of the ‘silent majority’ or 2/3rds of Americans (a clear bipartisan American supermajority) that supports bold climate policy.&n...

I get to speak with Samuel Falzone, a footwear designer and creative, making beautiful products focused on reconstructing deadstock sneakers into new one-of-a-kind pieces. In his latest project 'Reconstructed by Samuel Falzone' Samuel emphasizes repairability in each of his pieces through his goodyear welted soles. Beautiful, rare products, with handmade finishes, that are meant to be repaired, are a new level of luxury that is rarely seen in our consumerist society today. Samuel is an up-and...