Not trying to sound like an environmental hipster elitist but I want to know the most environmentally friendly brands/apparel and especially that uses natural fibers with no harsh chemical treatments (ex: superwash/hercosett 125). I'm not a hardcore outdoorsman so I don't need the latest and the best, I just want to avoid anything plastics because it makes me feel better. Some brands and apparel I found:
>Cima Coppi
great cycling brand that makes use of merino wool. They use plastics but it's plant based and frankly, no other cycling brand compares to them in terms of eco friendly
>Ruskovilla
Great merino mid layers but I haven't tried their other products
There are some other good stuff with other brands like the Ansur collection of Klattermunsen that use a pressed organic cotton garment that works as a shell, great windproofing. Also, for technical backpacks I haven't found anyone that uses natural fibers aside from Fjallraven Singi backpacks that has some cotton in them and a wooden frame
What other products/brands you recommend?
While not exactly environmentally friendly, there is secondhand gear you can get for a decent price. Some of the stuff might be plastic shit but some other stuff is older durable gear made from more simple materials such as canvas, leather, wool, denim, cotton, steel, aluminum, etc.
Estate auctions/sales, yard sales, eBay, and facebook marketplace, and more are decent places depending on your locale.
Also OP, if you want to cut out as much micro/nano plastics from your life, get rid of all clothes, blankets, towels, furniture, and any other fabrics in your your home that contain plastics. Maybe change waterlines on your home so they’re not using any pipes made from plastic.
If you live near a busy road, keep the windows facing it shut, at least during busy traffic times, as tires are another major source of plastics in the ecosystem aside plastic based fabrics and single use items.
Also in case you’re curious about water proofing some items like canvas, beeswax and (real) bear grease are natural tools for this but I haven’t any experience in the latter.
Yeah I try as much as possible to cut plastics in my life and it's not easy. I'll look into beeswax thanks
Do you have brands suggestions? I don't really have these responsible merchsnts anywhere near me or I just can't find them
What would work as a base layer? Linen or hemp clothing?
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>What would work as a base layer? Linen or hemp clothing?
I've been using cotton and linen in the summer and merino in the winter, but I'm currently looking into Scandinavian net base layers. They're available in both cotton, wool and polyester.
I've done the no plastic meme for over a year. I kept it fairly cheap by getting secondhand and euro milsurp stuff, so I don't have any brands for you to consoom.
But for the PrepHoledoors, the weight is a serious handicap when hiking with others, and no portable amount of wool blankets and furs will match a three season sleeping bag. And even thoroughly waxed canvas will eventually wet out. It's an interesting challenge though.
And is right about all the plastic we get through all the other vectors.
Just don't buy plastic/synthetic gear. People survived and thrived for hundreds of thousands of years without that stuff.
Buy wool from responsible merchants who only source from mills and farmers who have ecologically sound practices (including limited stock numbers not exceeding the carrying capacity of their land). Or get hemp from equally sound sources and make your own clothing. Everything else is bad for the planet.
Frick Merino wool. It is a meme.
>muh softness
Wool isn't supposed to be soft and it isn't supposed to be worn next to your skin.
Then why is it so goddam warm?
But it's nice that it's soft and it's nice to wear it next to skin. I like nice things.
>i'm too much of a hard man for merino but i also can't handle my real manly wool touching my skin
https://www.duckworthco.com/
Have you tried using glass? Simple as…
ultralight gays btfod
>he who lives in a glass house does not throw stones…for the sake of the environment
Non-ironically, go innawoods. Go on trails, do trash pickup efforts, join hiking groups, organizations, work for your preferred outdoorsy organization, be it private, non-profit, state, federal, or municipal.
Be warned, you will encounter left leaning grills with tats, piercings, colored hair, and associated totally individual attributes but there will be more selfing respecting women that lack such features.
Also they will all have college degrees in various outdoor/environments fields so they will school you in knowledge so you might want to get a degree if hit the books if your lack of knowledge is a turnoff for them or you wish to converse with them.
I have a pretty comfy life, it's just hard to meet people. At 30 y/o, your options are either single moms or bottom of the barrel women. And anything younger is either taken or just want something for fun. Dating websites have been horrible, I have a match every 2 weeks and that's after 3 months on hinge. Paying doesn't help at all, I did that those past 5 years to no avail. I'm not that picky either, just want something close to my lifestyle and values and maybe taller than me (5'9). I guess I'll go back to bouldering/rock climbing and try to meet people but it's quite expensive for what it is. My other option is bikepacking but don't know where to meet people. God I wish I was born anywhere in scandinavia...
>God I wish I was born anywhere in scandinavia...
Why? You’d just be a Norwegian loser as opposed to American.
True but I'm canadian at least
>At 30 y/o, your options are either single moms or bottom of the barrel women.
Never date a woman above 25, anon.
>I'm not that picky
>maybe taller than me (5'9)
Is this bait?
>God I wish I was born anywhere in scandinavia...
Frick off, we're full (of nogs)
How does one get a cute tall outdoor environmentalist no tattoo no piercing gf like in the OP? Do I need to move to scandinavian countries? I'm so lonely
Brands that are environmentally responsible first tend to make a bad product because their heads aren't in the right place (status quo) or are seriously behind the times. Maybe the shit made in Ireland for wool. Tweed is kind of under rated and the Irish fisherman sweaters are good. Try weavers of Ireland.
>eco responsible
Best is unironically patagonia. They made fleece with Martin mills so should go to hell but they funded the research that found micro plastics in the water and the ones working on solutions. They're not perfect but if you want a company that will try to fix the problems they are the only ones with the money, research, care, and effort to fix them. Hemp for example was made by hippie superf4eaks and backwoods Kentucky rednecks before.
Base layer is kind of a losing proposition if natural. You have to live with the tradeoffs.
Linen is traditional but expensive and no guarantee on durability
Merino wool has durability issues and expensive but is decent. Still gets wet and doesn't dry fast
Netting may be best but expensive and makes you look like a gay.
Cotton is cheap and you can change out easy if you soak through. I deal with this or hemp cotton blends. I live where it is wet and try to have my outer layer not soak through instead of bothering with base layer.
Also Chinese product made of NZ wool but Swanndri was a good attempt to make something that could handle the rain. Wool isn't naturally water resistant but if you ever grow a hair and eat soup you will discover how effective beard oil is at wicking water. It'll make you feel like a mess eating g soup because the bottom lip or sides will easily wick off the liquid and water slide it down your beard making a mess on your chest before you know it.
The key to wool is lanolin or the oil of the sheep. The og swanndri guy didn't give a shit about fashion and literally just made a one size tunic of boiled wool with like 3/4 length sleeves and then washed it in probably lanolin. This makes a breathable garment that has great water resistance.
Wool production really died in the 1970s because of plastic and a lot of these people playing catchup with our ancestors don't understand how to make a functional wool garment because 99% of their audience is using clothes to walk from a heated car seat to a heated house seat. They're not standing in the rain all day. The outdoor community is batman grailed in polyester with waterproofing.
It's such a niche now to find this and discover the bounty of esoteric knowledge but companies like the filson mackinaw Stanfield sweater and swanndri got it for areas that receive a lot of precip.
This subject matter is moronic because there is NOTHING you can do to protect the environment other than vote for whoever will deindustrialize your country and trigger population decline. Buying clothes made of used tampons or whatever doesn't do shit even if everyone is doing it.
>2d blackpilled midwit perspective.
one step above reddit, two steps below mental moronation
the most environmentally "friendly" thing to do is buy durable natural clothes and wear them for years and years. Try a pair of Carhart jeans and t-shirt.