Everlane is finally (finally!) getting into the sneaker game

(I do not care if you live by the beach, flip flops are still terrible and I stand by my thoughts.)
But in a show of my ability to be flexible and open to new ideas, I have done a 180 on my feelings about sneakers.
I am a recent inductee into the sneakers club.
Now I am obsessed and will attempt to make sneakers work for pretty much any occasion.
However, and it pains me to say this, sneakers are not the most sustainable fashion items, often using lots of virgin plastic and generating something like 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions.
One such brand is Everlane, which is launching the sustainable sneaker line Tread by Everlane on April 25.
Everlane was founded in 2011, but it took the brand eight years to launch a sneaker because they wanted to do it sans the negative environmental impact.
“With Tread by Everlane, we are providing customers a sneaker that isn’t full of virgin plastic and that is versatile so it can stand the test of time.” I asked Melville about Everlane’s decision to use leather, because leather is notoriously one of the worst environmental offenders.
But because this doesn’t offset all of the emissions, Tread by Everlane partnered with a third-party firm, NativeEnergy, to figure out the full carbon footprint of the Trainer for its entire life cycle—right back to the cattle farms.
“Many shoe brands don’t include the impact of raising cattle in their footprint and it’s considered a best practice to do so,” Melville explains.