I read that the cotton making process is harmful to the environment. I heard talk about switching to hemp, so I checked out some web sites and saw how expensive hemp clothing is. I want to help the planet but honestly, I kind of poor. does anyone know of a website that sells hemp a bit cheaper, or where I can purchase hemp fabric to make my own clothes. or any other fabric that isn't harmful to the environment.
Hey, yea it is expensive! there's always organic cotton i have a few hemp threads that have lasted a long while so it's not too bad considering the life you get out of them but Woody Harreslon's website has a nice list of links http://www.woodyharrelson.com/10_woodsgoods/10_righteous.php not sure if the prices are good, but i hope that helps ~Dan
wow......i could start own buissness after i grow & weave the hemp i could make it into clothes..... & giv them 2 ppl......nifty...
shop at thrift stores if they have them there, where most of the clothing is recycled and used(and equally nice : ) organic cotton is supposed to be very unproductive apparently, and your lucky if you get a yield at all..thats what i read anyway. so just reusing it via thrift stores to me, seems the best solution to me. nothing like the clean conscious that comes with knowing your being a responsible conscious citizen of planet earth, or just getting a killer deal on your clothing whereas a bunch of other people are shelling out entire paychecks to get the same thing..
dharma trading has some nice hemp fabric in white. www.dharmatrading.com if you use silk, check out their blend. It has a fabulous hand. I get a few nice hemp pieces and the rest are thrifty scores. the hemp seems to last quite well, even on thinner weaves. look for flax linen, too.
Hemp will be expensive until (yeah, like that'll ever happen) we convert into using hemp for about everything instead of cotton, oil, trees, animal fat.
actually, as it is in the US an import (Canada can grow some: not sure of the industrial hemp acreage...anyone know?) it's price could go down, but why should the gov't continue to uphold laws and not enforce cotton tarrifs to the detriment of it's own people?
silent, if you visit that link posted above you'll see that I'm saying that your best environmental choice is to consume less and like carrot flesh says, buy/acquire second-hand clothes. They tend to be cheaper too, even free, just ask. I have not bought an article of clothing in years, but I have quite a wardrobe thx to my sis and friends. As the population approaches the Earth's carrying capacity there is an environmental cost to ANY industry, including hemp, simply cos processing consumes energy and land, even taking wildlife habitat. That's why it's important to reduce and reuse.
i wouldnt think canada has that much. its legal to grow hemp, but theres strict laws about it. you have to put up fences, have govenment checks, backround checks, ect. and hemp would be cheaper if it was legal in the us, arrrggggg.
i try reusing, i go to the salvation army but i don't find that many good things. i have bought a few cause i was lucky, but the clothes are usually too worn out. i also swap clothes with my mom... i give her what i'm tired of wearing and she does the same, some times i rediscover things i gave her years ago. there aren't any second hand stores here, well not that i know of, and the flea markets suck, most of it is literally garbage. i haven't bought new clothes in a while... and i got a sewing machine for xmas WUJUUU so i plan on tearing up some old things and making some funky new ones as far as the hemp... i give up... i'm not for all the extra spending at the time
yeah i find 2nd hand stores are stodgy cos ppl hang on to their clothes for too long before donating them then by the time they end up in the stores they are a decade out of date. That's why I get most of my clothes from friends and not from the saly ann. Try freecycle.org or organize swapping parties with ppl your size, clothes are likely to be more fresh.
