A brief explanation of Fibershed

1. Pearl River Delta in China where 200 million jeans per year are
manufactured

2. Making it Personal
One year, One hundred
and fifty miles
For: $10,000

3. CP FB FB
Average w/out w/solar
solar mills
47 7.2 Estimate
pounds pounds ½ pound
CO2 CO2 CO2
If each individual in my small
town purchased one pair of pants
we’d save 278,600 pounds of
CO2 and
Omit all pesticide/herbicides
Omit all fresh water pollution
1 pound of CO2 fills up an
average size exercise ball
One acre of organic cotton
produces approximately 500
pairs of pants

5. Waste not, Want not….
Two small CA counties-
Marin/Sonoma waste 70,000
pounds of wool/year
For the Cost of One Synthetic
Biology Project: Dupont’s Bio-
PDO (corn sugar + synthetic
yeast) = $100 million/ 200 jobs.
$100 million = 422 solar
powered Wool mills in CA
processing 2,000 pounds/each
844,000 pounds annually =
422,000 sweaters, 2,110 jobs

6. Gravitate to that which you underestimate…

8. Rebecca Burgess
www.rebeccarburgess.com
Fibershed
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Fibershed Marketplace
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