However, this is completely untrue. It is the small changes we make that make a big difference because if everyone makes these small changes, they add together to have a massive effect on the future of our planet.

You can be green with almost anything these days. For every single thing you want to buy or do, there is usually a green option for you to choose. And this is even the case with clothes.

Leather-free shoes are readily available and you can even find bamboo clothing, made from organic and sustainable bamboo fibre.

So no excuses. Next time you go clothes shopping, think about your choice carefully. After all, green really suits you.

“Nike has set a great precedent for Timberland, Adidas, Reebok, and Clarks to follow,” said Greenpeace forests campaigner Lindsey Allen. “Brazil’s cattle industry, which supplies leather for shoes, is responsible for about 80 percent of all deforestation in the Amazon. In fact, the Brazilian cattle industry is the largest single source of deforestation anywhere in the world. And deforestation in turn causes one-fifth of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the world, more than all the world’s cars, trucks, trains, planes, and ships combined.”