Yearly Archives: 2019
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Ethical Christmas Gifts that Come with their Story
Posted on December 7, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.It’s Christmas again and a wonderful time to let our friends and family know how much we care. With increasing awareness of how much ‘stuff’ we dispose of each year – 240,000 items of clothing end up in landfill in the UK each year! – we want to choose wisely. If you are buying ethical […]
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Changing Our Clothes – Jo Salter on BBC Radio Suffolk 12th November 2019
Posted on November 12, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Media Coverage.Changing our Clothes: Where Does It Come From founder and sustainable fashion campaigner Jo Salter was invited onto BBC Radio Suffolk to talk awith Sarah Lilley. You can listen to the interview at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07rxkwr (from 1 hour 23 minutes). Interviewed before Jo was Jill from Oxfam about their campaign Secondhand September – well worth a […]
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Black Friday? – Let’s Shop Ethical Instead!
Posted on November 11, 2019 by Jo Salter in ethical events and happenings, Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.It’s the time of year when marketing campaigns are really ramping up. Christmas, one of the best selling times, is in sight. Black Friday, an import from the USA which pushes bargains at us and incites a frenzy of shopping, will happen on 29th November. Every year more retailers jump on the bandwagon as customers […]
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New Bags for Hanks Deli in the Ipswich Star
Posted on November 7, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Our new khadi bags for Hanks Deli featured in the Ipswich Star yesterday. You can read the article online at https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/business/ipswich-vegan-deli-teams-up-with-where-does-it-come-from-1-6360505 We also created some fabulous new Organic Shoulder Bags printed with some ethical shopping slogans – you can find them in our Ethical Shopping Marketplace.
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Queen Gives Up Real Fur – Jo on BBC Radio Suffolk Discussion
Posted on November 6, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Today it was announced the the Queen of England will no longer have real fur in any of her new clothes. BBC Radio Suffolk invited our founder Jo Salter on air to discuss the announcement with presenter Mark Murphy. You can hear the discussion at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07q3lxd from 2 hours 11 minutes in.
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Jo on BBC 1 Inside Out talking Sustainable Fashion with Clementine
Posted on November 6, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Jo's Soapbox, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.We were honoured that our founder Jo Salter was invited by Clementine, the living fashion doll, onto her sustainable fashion feature on BBC 1 Inside Out. Did you miss it? You can catch up on BBC iPlayer at 19 minutes and 25 seconds. Here’s the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0009wyn/inside-out-east-28102019
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Jo Salter: Advice to my 18 Year Old Self
Posted on October 15, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Media Coverage.Our founder Jo Salter was interviewed by Suffolk Magazine recently on what advice she would give to her 18 year old self. You can read the article online at ‘Business advice from Jo Salter at Where Does It Come From?‘. As Jo says, her younger self wouldn’t have listened anyway…..
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Dress Like a Duchess in African Fashion
Posted on October 15, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Media Coverage.Dress Like a Duchess: The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, yet again supported ethical fashion in her clothing choices during a recent South Africa Tour. More than this she wore a dress created by our partners Mayamiko – created in the same Fairtrade workshop as our African Tunics and accessories! We are delighted from Paola […]
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Cheap Sustainable Fashion – Does It Exist?
Posted on September 6, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Do you remember the old phrase ‘Cheap and Cheerful’? Every day we are enticed to buy cheap clothing but we now know that this doesn’t leave the farmers and garment makers feeling cheerful at all. Plus there’s the devastating effects of pollution and waste on our planet, a frightening and growing concern. But is there […]
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Where Does It Come From? and the SDGs – Interview by The Frugal Family
Posted on July 12, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Jo's Soapbox, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are a key way to map and measure our positive impact, not only as businesses but as individuals too. You can check out how we map against the goals in our article Where Does It Come From? and the SDGS. In this interview Clare Lyons from The Frugal Family […]
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Ethical Fashion: Five Years and Five Steps Forward
Posted on June 18, 2019 by Jo Salter in guest blogs, Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.A reflection on the ‘big things’ that have happened in ethical fashion in the 5 years since Where Does It Come From? launched our first collection – by Lucy Kerry, Where Does It Come From? Product Manager It’s hard to believe that it’s only been 5 years since Where Does It Come From? launched onto […]
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Talking Ethical Fashion on BBC Radio Five Live
Posted on June 5, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Where Does It Come From founder Jo Salter and Ethicalhour founder Sian Conway were invited to talk ethical fashion on BBC Radio Five Live during Fashion Revolution Week this in April, alomg with Sam Clarke from the Streetwear brand Act Natural. You can hear a recording of their interview at:
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Where Does It Come From? in Forbes!
Posted on June 1, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.This week Forbes have published an article on Where Does It Come From? And our founder Jo Salter. The article talks about our work to connect customers with their clothing through the traceability code we put on the label, our projects with social enterprises and our use of ecofriendly materials and processes. You can read […]
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Be The Change Awards 2019 Awards Ceremony
Posted on May 13, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.On April 26th, the Museum of Brands in London hosted the first ever Be The Change Awards 2019 Awards Ceremony! You can watch a fabulous video of the event created by Studio Republic below: Set up by Jo Salter from Where Does It Come From? and Sian Conway from Ethicalhour, the awards were to create […]
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Be The Change Awards on BBC Radio Suffolk
Posted on May 8, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Our founder Jo Salter was interviewed about the Be The Change Awards on BBC Radio Suffolk along with Katie MacKenzie from Suffolk Babies – one of the finalists. The awards are a collaboration between Where Does It Come From? and Ethicalhour, set up to celebrate the changemakers who run their brands to make positive impacts […]
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Climate Change – The Politics, Science and Humanitarian Views
Posted on April 21, 2019 by Jo Salter in ethical events and happenings, Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.A couple of weeks ago I was very lucky to be in the audience for a fabulous panel session at the Royal Geographical society discussing climate change – the politics, the science and the humanitarian effects. The panel was hosted by the Lucy Siegle, enthusiastic eco-warrior and author, and there was an impressive all-woman line […]
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Fashion Revolution 2019 at London’s Museum of Brands
Posted on April 15, 2019 by Jo Salter in ethical events and happenings, Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.There’s less than two weeks to go until our Fashion Revolution 2019 events at the Museum of Brands, brought to you by Where Does It Come From? and Ethicalhour – we’d love it if you could join us! We have three events across Friday and Saturday of Fashion Revolution week. Friday 26 April Future Fashion […]
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Jo Salter talks Be The Change Awards on the BBC
Posted on March 21, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Jo Salter, co-founder of the Be The Change awards and founder of Where Does it Come From? was interviewed alongside Katie MacKenzie the founder of Suffolk Babies. It was fantastic to see the Be The Change Awards on the BBC Look East TV news programme! Suffolk Babies is one of the finalists in the Babies […]
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Urban Health Podcast
Posted on March 6, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Jo's Soapbox, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Can your clothing affect your health? Where Does It Come From? founder Jo Salter was interviewed by Stephanie Webster for Urban Health podcast. Many people take great care to put natural and organic substances into their body but do not explore the benefits of putting sustainable clothing on their biggest organ, their skin. The discussion […]
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Eloquently Her on our Pop Up Shop in Framlingham
Posted on March 2, 2019 by Jo Salter in ethical events and happenings, Jo Media, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Thanks to Deborah Watson from Eloquently Her for a lovely piece on Where Does It Come From? Collaborating with Arya Candles to create a Pop up shop in Framlingham. You can read the article by clicking the link below: Leading Ladies Collaborating Consciously
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Pure London – Breakfast on a Catwalk
Posted on March 1, 2019 by Jo Salter in ethical events and happenings, Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.An invitation to Breakfast…. When I first received the invitation to breakfast at the Pure London exhibition at Olympia I was perplexed – why were they inviting an ethical clothing brand owner and influencer to an exhibition designed to sell large amounts of mass-produced clothes? Then I looked at the key speakers – Caryn Franklin, […]
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UK Government – Make Brands more responsible says Review into Fast Fashion
Posted on February 19, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Have you been waiting for the UK Government Environmental Audit Committee Review into Fast Fashion? Exciting news – it was published this morning! Where Does It Come From? gave input into the first stages of the review back in September and last week I was in the audience of a discussion between committee chair Mary […]
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4 Changes You Can Make To Your Wardrobe To Reduce Your Plastic
Posted on February 13, 2019 by Jo Salter in guest blogs, Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Guest Blog by Natalie Wilson We often live for our clothes, yet as consumers, we are not as educated as we should be when it comes to how our clothes are made and why it matters. Fashion is the second most polluting industry, only behind oil, so sustainability has never looked and felt so good. […]
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Marie Kondo – Decluttering my Clothes with Joy
Posted on February 10, 2019 by Jo Salter in guest blogs, Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.by Lucy Kerry, Where Does It Come From? Product Manager Marie Kondo Decluttering: It’s an odd old world when everyone is raving about a TV series about tidying houses but there’s no denying that Marie Kondo is fast becoming a household name. I held out against such silliness for a while but this week I […]
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Suffolk saves the Planet – BBC Radio Suffolk
Posted on February 7, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Jo's Soapbox, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.On Tuesday 5th February Where Does It Come From? founder Jo Salter and Cupboard Love‘s Mel Menhams took over BBC Radio Suffolk for the evening! The show was called ‘Suffolk Saves the Planet’ and it was all about celebrating Suffolk people who are making positive change through their activities and businesses – really inspiring folk […]
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Made to Treasure
Posted on February 6, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo Media, Jo's Soapbox, Media Coverage, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Made to Treasure – an article by Jo Salter, Founder of Where Does It Come From? and ethical business consultant published in Natural Mumma Magazine. Read the February issue at https://issuu.com/t5publications/docs/natural_mumma_magazinefebruary_2019? Read the February issue at https://issuu.com/t5publications/docs/natural_mumma_magazinefebruary_2019?
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Getting our Ducks in a Row – Zero-waste, Plastic-Free Reusable Shopping Bags (that used to be dresses!)
Posted on January 9, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.So how did our new reusable shopping bags come about? As a brand that’s been around a few years now we have to accept that everything doesn’t always quite work out as we hoped. Sadly our Freya pinafore just hasn’t been all that popular. It had a great blogger review, even featured in Green Parent […]
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Our 2018 Impact against the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Posted on January 1, 2019 by Jo Salter in Jo's Soapbox, Where Does It Come From? Blog.Good News: UK consumers shopping more and more thically 2018 was a concerning year in many ways – Brexit, financial pressures due to the economic situation and a worrying tendency for people to embrace intolerance. However it was a positive year for ethical and sustainable consumerism in general and ethical fashion in particular – with […]
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