Handle with Care

This paper defines and investigates models of environmental movers (EM), based on a long-term collaboration and community-based project about fashion, sustainability, identity, with a focus on environmental solutions to ecological, class, and social justice. We describe and evaluate the first two years of “Handle with Care” project, a long-term community collaboration between a high school and university classes, which includes Envirochic/Chic Shack, an environmentally friendly boutique planned, developed, and implemented with a local high school in the United States. This space provided a platform to explore and advocate for sustainability through fashion and style.