Danielle Vermeer
@daniellevermeer
Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport. Writer of Goodwill Hunting, a newsletter hunting the best pre-loved fashion finds, insights, and jobs. 11+ years of buying no new clothes.
Danielle Vermeer
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Unusual Ventures • Evaluation Rubric for a Seed-Stage Consumer Social App.pdf
Eschewing an overt materialism, the rich are investing significantly more in education, retirement and health. Education accounts for almost 6% of top 1% household expenditures, compared with just over 1% of middle-income spending. Inconspicuous consumption confers social mobility.
bbc • The new, subtle ways the rich signal their wealth
The following is a list of features and technology you would never build if you’ve been a teen girl:
Emma Bates • Me, My Teen Self and Instagram
Consumer Social and
Nanocellulose is a naturally occurring substance extracted from cellulose—the main substance of a plant's cell walls. It's divided into two types: nanocrystals and nanofibrils, both of which are biodegradable and non-toxic. The former is also stronger than steel.
Phys.org • Bio-inspired textiles promote sustainable fashion
It’s not that people don’t want to work. It’s that their jobs feel, for whatever reason, unsustainable: unsustainable for their mental and physical health, but also unsustainable for their family, and their longterm survival. Many people actually really like the work that they do, if they were, indeed, allocating the bulk of their time to doing... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • The Expanding Job
Research by environmental charity Wrap shows that extending the life of an item of clothing by just nine months could cut its environmental impact by up to 10 percent.
Bel Jacobs • How to be a sustainable fashion lover – and why it matters
“Nouveau riche” industrialists began to buy their way into high society, and existing aristocratic elites, battling economic upheaval, were unable to guard against this pecuniary emulation.