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Resources for Mending Clothes

We toss out over 80 pounds of textiles each year. These textiles are often made of plastic materials (polyester, nylon), made in unethical conditions, dyed with harsh dyes that often get put into the rivers, etc. Even a single cotton shirt releases carbon emissions and uses tons of water. 

So the best thing to prevent the unsustainable growth of the fashion industry is to make sure that your clothing lasts as long as possible. To do so, mending clothing is a must. So here are some resources to help you learn how to do various things, such as sewing a button, to tailoring clothes, or even upcycling old clothing into new styles. 

* How to sew on three different types of button

* How to hand sew on a patch on a torn pair of jeans

* How to sew up a hole in an old shirt

* How to sew a simple T-shirt

* How to upcycle old clothing into new clothing

* More upcycle and sewing techniques

* How to repair a damaged sock

* How to do an invisible stitch

* 3 different stitches to work with for different results

* How to make a T-shirt smaller so it fits you better

* How to make repairs to your shoes

These are just a few of the things that you can do in order to make sure that your clothing lasts for a long time. Nobody wants to keep buying new clothing, as it is expensive and wasteful. 

So making alterations to your clothing, or fixing small holes hen you see them can be hugely beneficial to your wallet, to garment workers, and to the environment in the long term. 

#mending #resources #climate change #climate crisis #upcycling clothes #recycled clothing #eco #solarpunk

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"A world without trans people has never existed and never will"

Poster spotted in Olympia, WA

#poster #trans liberation #graffiti #anarchism

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"Abolish ICE, Open All Borders"

#abolish borders #abolish ice #anarchism

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"Destroy what destroys you"

#anarchy #anarchism

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Graffiti seen in a public bathroom in Calgary, Alberta

#free palestine #bathroom graffiti #graffiti

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"End Wage Slavery"

Graphic by Krime

#class war #never work #anarchism

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international people start calling our country aotearoa instead of new zealand challenge

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“We will grow through concrete”

#anarchy #graffiti

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Yeah I think it’s time to leave the solarpunk subreddit

There’s been an influx of right wingers trying to derail the movement and it pisses me off to no end

#solarpunk

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"Witness the End of Imperialism / Nobody for President"

Stickers spotted in Bushwick, Brooklyn

#stickers #anarchism #anti imperialism #graffiti #sticker

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#anti capitalism

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its nothing some ibuprofen and a blunt and 5 beers and a head injury and jacking off and killing myself cant fix

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In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

#solarpunk #hopepunk #environmentalism #anti captialism

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"Allergic to Work"

Spotted in Teneriffe, Canary Islands

#antiwork #graffiti

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#solarpunk #hopepunk #environmentalism #social justice #optimism #community

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realizing that sticking to the "do it bad" "do it scared" mentality implies theres also a "do it bored"

#positivity

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IMPORTANT!!!

I’ve only seen like one person talk about this and it’s super important that this gets out there

Multiple punk symbols and sayings have been added to the FBI’s domestic terrorism guide

Things included are

The symbol for anarchy

ACAB and 1312

The three arrows pointing down in a circle

Eat the rich

Those are a few but it also mentions anything anti-fascist and anti capitalist

So if you live in the US please be careful

#punk