The word on the street is beloved yoga pants maven Lululemon is a coalprit...
Despite setting climate targets, Lululemon is making yoga pants to accompany our mindful habits with dirty coal-powered electricity in Vietnam, Cambodia, and China. Our research suggests that Lululemon’s finished goods factories across Asia are 45% powered by burning coal and only 2% powered by clean renewable energy. Not very aligned with healthy living, huh?
If Apple can make iPhones with renewable energy, Lululemon should be able to make yoga pants without burning coal. In Vietnam, where Lululemon’s iconic yoga pants are made, proposed coal power plants could cause 1,500 additional premature deaths and 750 new cases of asthma in children every year.¹
With the massive growth trajectory the brand is on, it’s crucial Lululemon takes climate action to match its skyrocketing climate impacts. That’s why we need to pin this issue as top of mind for the company’s executives. Will you help us get our new spood video to the top of Calvin’s twitter feed and tell him you don’t want #CoalSweats?
Send a tweet or two to Lululemon’s CEO Calvin Mcdonald and urge him to move his company away from coal and other dirty fossil fuels.
¹VIETNAM COAL REPORT
