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Which of the following is known as “the world’s dirtiest crop”?
a. Wool. b. Rayon. c. Cotton. d. Silk. Find out the answers to the quiz and about how fashion affects the Earth. Go to www.prettybrainy.com/sourcing/ and enter the password CottonCrops. Your knowing about fashion design off the runway is what this quiz is about. Here is the point: being a fashion designer comes with the responsibility of learning how to use design to help stop and reverse environmental damage to our planet. The fashion industry has contributed to harming and killing our living Earth, but the industry's moral conduct, or ethics, is changing.¹ A driving agent of change is people's awareness that the products they buy — and refuse to buy — makes a difference on what designers and companies bring to market. A product has to have economic sustainability, too.
¹Organizations working to change the fashion industry’s effect on the environment include the Ethical Fashion Forum and their initiative, “Source.” Visit the Source website for more information, including a list of schools that offer courses of study in sustainable fashion. Go to www.ethicalfashionforum.com > About the Source Platform.