--- title: Five Best: Your Clothes Might Soon Be Made in Ethiopia description: Your clothes might soon be made in Ethiopia, coal miners who lost jobs to renewable energy are working again and more. canonical: https://time.com/4943364/your-clothes-might-soon-be-made-in-ethiopia/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-15T16:00:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:29.775Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Your Clothes Might Soon Be Made in Ethiopia og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4943364/your-clothes-might-soon-be-made-in-ethiopia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Your Clothes Might Soon Be Made in Ethiopia twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Your Clothes Might Soon Be Made in Ethiopia by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 15, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 15, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**With China’s help, your clothes might soon be made in Ethiopia.**](https://www.worldcrunch.com/business-finance/the-rise-of-made-in-ethiopia-with-the-backing-of-beijing) By Emeline Wuilbercq in _Le Monde via Worldcrunch_ **2\.** [**Coal miners who lost jobs to renewable energy are working again. Here’s how.**](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/job-training-community-college-put-coal-miners-new-path/) By Hari Sreenivasan at _PBS Newshour_ **3\.** [**Can unions make Silicon Valley more fair?**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-14/union-power-is-putting-pressure-on-silicon-valley-s-tech-giants) By Josh Eidelson in _Bloomberg Businessweek_ **4\.** [**This specially engineered sugarcane hybrid could grow biofuel for jets.**](http://petross.illinois.edu/news/airline-industry-could-fly-thousands-of-miles-on-biofuel-from-a-new-promisi) By PETROSS at the _University of Illinois_ **5\.** [**We’re searching for life on other planets — but can life on other planets find us?**](https://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/3042-are-we-being-watched-tens-of-other-worlds-could-spot-the-earth) By Morgan Hollis and Alyssa Drake at the _Royal Astronomical Society_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4943364/your-clothes-might-soon-be-made-in-ethiopia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4943364/your-clothes-might-soon-be-made-in-ethiopia/"},"headline":"Your Clothes Might Soon Be Made in Ethiopia","datePublished":"2017-09-15T16:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:29.775Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4943364/your-clothes-might-soon-be-made-in-ethiopia/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Space","coal","Silicon Valley","Clothing"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4943364/your-clothes-might-soon-be-made-in-ethiopia/","name":"Your Clothes Might Soon Be Made in Ethiopia"}}]}] ```