blake lapthorn green breakfast with rapanui - 17 april 2013

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On Wednesday 17 April 2013 Blake Lapthorn's Climate Change team hosted a green breakfast seminar. Guest speakers included Nicky Chambers of Best Foot Forward and Mart and Rob Drake-Knight of Rapanui. The talk was titled 'Blue sky ideas that sell pairs of underpants'.

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www.rapanuiclothing.com

Sustainable Fashion Company – t‐shirts / sweats / socks / underwear / tops / leggings etc

Est. 2008

Graduates of Renewable Energy and BusinessSmall investment start up, box of t‐shirts, organic growth, now a fast growing SME.

Opportunity in the fashion economy to do things differently

Started with sustainability as a core aim

Product, Planet, People

20’000 Litres of water for one kg of cotton (WWF)

Up to 20 spoonfuls of agrochemicals, 1 kilo cotton (EJF)

Widespread human cost

Fashion is an influential medium, with the power to change buyer behaviour for the better.  

No more itchy brown socks

NO

Sustainable supply chains – important.

Who pays? Change must be funded by demand

How to Fuel Demand?

“It’s not that people don’t care about sustainability

It’s just that they don’t know.”

Core principles of 21st century life?

Education      ‐ Communicate

Economy       ‐Worth

Aspiration     ‐Want 

Where clothing comes from and how it is made

Seed to shop – New technology / internet / mobile

Greater accountability for companies

Fast, cheap, compatible, proven

Industry > MEP > UK Parliament > EU

Not static, open to change

Constant improvement

80% of impact Post Purchase 

Consumer‐use

Fast drying materials

Technical nutrient + C2C designed‐inContact Points 

Lots of development

(ops, infrastructure, economies, technologies)

Reducing impact on a normal model

Or start again – change the model

Designed into Rapanui from the start

New low‐impact (semi‐synthetic?) eco textiles

Recyclable fabrics

RE powered systemReduced Transport

Way cooler.

Consumers will finance the change 

Communication, value, aspiration. 

137 Billion Cash Reserves?

www.rapanuiclothing.com

@rapanuiclothing

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