The trash is the feed! Space Hippie’s Flyknit yarns include at least 85% rPoly made from recycled plastic water bottles, t-shirts and yarn scraps. So yeah, they have practically created a shoe out of the trash they generate on the floor doing what they do. Through the Space Hippie, they are focusing on the Circular aspect of manufacturing, citing the concept of ‘in situ utilization’, a term borrowed from space explorations. Through the Move to Zero initiative, they aim to power facilities with 100% renewable energy by 2025 and operate with net-zero carbon emissions. “At Nike, we believe that climate change is the defining environmental issue of our generation because the reality is if there’s no planet, there’s no sport,” Nike’s chief sustainability officer Noel Kinder
The ‘Move to Zero’ initiative was launched by Nike in September 2019, right at the corners of Global Climate Strike. Right now, going sustainable is the trend, and they know it. Whether it be women empowerment, body positivity, cultural inclusivity…you name it, you will find a Nike product talking about it. The Nike Space Hippie line launches on June 11th.Companies like Nike have been quick to sense the upcoming societal trends and responded with their products to make a profit out of them. The Nike Space Hippie line launches on June 11th in Europe, and on July 3rd on Nike SNKRS. Grab a detailed look at the entire set piece just below, and expect the 01, 02, and 03 to arrive this Spring at the 04 will follow shortly after during the Summer. Heightened with a tapered collar and substantial fastening system, the pair is the only one to outfit with FastFit tech, but still the most compelling is undoubtedly awarded to the women’s flagship, the 04, whose robust bottom matches well with the relatively slim profile just overhead. Finally, the 03 rounds off the selection of men’s offerings with enhanced utility. The 02, in departure, opts for a different structural inspiration with its mid-top cut threads that make up the swoosh sew in and out of the knit base in the same color as the aforementioned, crossing above an arrangement of dark patches, gridded patterns, and a mix of weave variations. Its sole, which can be found on a few others out of the pack, takes on a complementing blue shade mixed in with bits of distinct fragments embedded within. Starting in numerical order, the 01 crafts close to the likeness of the Epic React, using its general shape to create a neutral baseline with accents of bright orange and wild multicolor playing with more energy just atop. Moreover, crater foam creates an interesting speckling along the sole unit with its vibrant notes a result of its entirely salvaged architecture. In terms of material, the four total selections come equipped with a newly developed Flyknit yarn, one that borrows the fibers of plastic bottles to an 85% usage. Scraps are reused, production byproducts no longer go to waste, and even the packaging comes together to further decrease their carbon print - a trackable score which, incidentally, is currently the lowest in the brand’s footwear category. Naming aside, the range is a serious roster of green offerings, each painfully aware of its finer details and their detriment to the environment.
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Inclusive of plant-based dyes and recycled materials, the selection of earth conscious goods has grown at a gradual pace these past few years - almost a handful of picks every season - but as we hit Spring of this year, the label is poised to release one of their most ambitious series yet: the “Space Hippie” collection.
Sustainability has always been of utmost importance for Nike, arguably more so these days after the institution publicly promised to minimize their ecological footprint as per their “Move To Zero” initiative.
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