Why ABC’s Ginger Zee Stopped Buying New Clothes for 2 Years [Video]

When ABC viewers watch Ginger Zee deliver the forecast or report from the scene of natural disasters on Good Morning America, one of the first things they notice is her outfit.

It’s a reality for everyone who works on-air in TV news — which the network’s chief meteorologist and climate correspondent doesn’t love.

“I never got into this to do a fashion show, that wasn’t my intent,” Zee tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue.

“It’s always been the one part that hasn’t felt like it fits,” she says.

So it was about two years ago that she decided to try the #NoNewClothes Challenge from Remake, a clothing industry social-justice group, with the hope of mitigating mass produced fashion’s impact on the environment and learning more about how to consume less while staying stylish.

The stats Zee, 43, learned through the nonprofit were alarming, like that fashion is the third-largest industry contributing to greenhouse gasses that warm the …