Inspired by the success of sustainable, local textile production in Thailand and Indonesia, Rebecca Burgess is uses renewable energy-powered mills, compostable clothes and natural dye farms in her sustainable clothing network: Fibershed. Burgess’s new economy has bloomed into 54 communities, composed of spinners, farmers, dyers, designers, sewers and ecologists, who are countering the extensive health problems of waste and pollution caused by the clothing industry. Fibershed is creating sustainability by shaping a local economy that incorporates care for its water, its working landscape and the health of its well-paid workers. Photo credit: grist