After almost two years of collaboration V1 of the Apparel Index is ready for testing and publicly available at www.apparelcoalition.org.  The Index is an industry-wide tool for measuring the environmental and social performance of apparel products and the supply chains that produce them.  The Sustainable Apparel Coalition welcomes comments and feedback on the tool to continue to improve it.

by Yvon Chouinard, Jib Ellison, and Rick Ridgeway                         

No one these days seriously denies the need for sustainable business practices. Even those concerned about only business and not the fate of the planet recognize that the viability of business itself depends on the resources of healthy ecosystems—fresh water, clean air, robust biodiversity, productive land—and on the stability of just societies. Happily, most of us also care about these things directly.

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Collaborating for a More Sustainable Apparel Supply Chain

Since April 2010, Blu Skye has played a key role convening a group of 28 sustainability leaders in the apparel and footwear industry including Nike, H&M, Gap, Levi's, Walmart, Target and Patagonia, together with leading NGOs and the U.S. EPA, to form the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. The goal of the Coalition is to develop an industry-wide index to measure the environmental and social performance of apparel products, and to identify opportunities for pre-competitive collaboration in the apparel supply chain to improve sustainability performance and drive innovation.