Seeing Green
Celebrating progress in sustainable living — how we live, travel, eat, move, dress, play, clean… and more.
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Seeing Green - stories of progress, solutions and inspiration. Topics include: apparel, home, food, travel & tourism, sports & outdoors, beauty, personal care, electric vehicles and more.
Spotlight: Grailed
Grailed is a leading online resale marketplace specializing in men’s fashion, streetwear and luxury clothing. Founded in 2013, the platform has grown into a global hub where style enthusiasts can buy and sell pre-owned designer pieces, rare sneakers and sought-after streetwear.
Spotlight: Geartrade
Geartrade is an online marketplace dedicated to buying and selling used outdoor gear, providing adventurers with an affordable and sustainable way to access high-quality equipment. By focusing on recommerce, Geartrade helps outdoor enthusiasts save money while reducing the demand for new products.
Spotlight: Nuuly
Nuuly is a subscription-based fashion rental and resale platform launched by URBN. Designed to cater to the growing demand for sustainable and flexible fashion solutions, Nuuly offers customers a wide variety of contemporary, vintage and designer apparel and accessories for rent (Nuuly Rent) or purchase (Nuuly Thrift).
Spotlight: GoodBuy Gear
Founded in 2016, GoodBuy Gear was created to simplify the process of buying and selling gently used items while ensuring safety and reliability for parents. By combining convenience, quality assurance and eco-conscious practices, GoodBuy Gear makes it easier for families to contribute to a more circular economy.
Spotlight: Vestiaire Collective
Vestiaire Collective, a global online marketplace for buying and selling desirable pre-owned fashion, is on a mission io transform the fashion industry for a more sustainable future by empowering their community to promote circular fashion. Founded in 2009, the platform has grown into one of the largest resale destinations for high-end fashion, with an inventory of 5 million items and users from around the world.
Spotlight: Depop
On a mission to make fashion circular, Depop is a social e-commerce platform that allows users to buy, sell and discover desirable, affordable secondhand fashion. Founded in 2011 in the UK, the Depop app offers an Instagram-like interface that emphasizes community, creativity, and personal expression, all toward offering the most inspiring and accessible fashion alternative to new.
Spotlight: Winmark - the Resale Company
With a mission to “Provide Resale for Everyone,” Winmark has enabled more than 1.8 billion (!!) items to be recycled since 2010 across the company’s resale store brands: Plato's Closet (teen/young adult clothing), Once Upon a Child (children’s items), Play It Again Sports (sporting / fitness equipment), Style Encore (women’s apparel), and Music Go Round (musical instruments).
Spotlight: Recommerce News Highlights
New study on recommerce growth in UK. eBay releases 4th Recommerce Report. Rankings of most popular recommerce sites. Perfect Moment / Reflaunt launch skiwear resale. Poshmark enables Promoted Closet. Haz fundraises as AI-powered app for secondhand. Spotlights on Save The Duck, Doen, Vinted. And much more…
Sustainable Retail & Recommerce
Brands in the news: GoodBuy Gear, Kidsy, REI, Tommy Hilfiger, Depop, Trove, Carhartt, DHL, Reflaunt, Vodafone, Recommerce Group, Wish, Remarketed Group, Thrift+, ThredUp, Vinted, The RealReal, rebuy, Swoperz, MPB and many more.
Sustainable Retail & Recommerce
Brands in the news: OfferUp, ZARA SA, Inditex, REI, Bumbleride Inc., Rebelstork, Second Gear, Buycycle, Recurate, ALPAKA, ReFit Global, The Body Shop, Depop and many more.
