News
January 8, 2011
Back in 2007, Levi's did a cradle-to-grave assessment of the resources required for its famous 501 denim and found out something surprising: its jeans were practically made of water. Read more
Scientific Study
September 1, 2010
A new study has identified exactly how silver nanoparticles cause male reproductive cells to stop growing. Read more
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August 21, 2010
Basson, the CEO of Seattle-based Greensource Organic Clothing Company, had recently shipped an order of 200,000 yoga tops to Sam's Club, Walmart's warehouse club unit. At first, the Sam's Club buyer didn't see any particular reason why the organic tops would sell much better than the regular kind; she just felt that organic was a good place to be from an ecological standpoint. But when all 200,000 of the pieces flew off the shelves in three weeks, the pinstriped-trouser boys in Bentonville picked up the story. Then, they picked up the phone and called David Basson.
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News
August 18, 2010
A Swiss chemical producer may soon be the first company to receive approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to use nanosilver to make clothing smell better, stay cleaner and destroy germs. Read more
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July 16, 2010
Sitting in her tiny living room here, Santa Castillo beams about the new house that she and her husband are building directly behind the wooden shack where they now live. Read more
News
July 7, 2010
Egypt is famous for its cotton. Vendors around the world boast of their luxurious Egyptian cotton sheets. But on many small farms, children are involved in all parts of cotton farming. Julia Simon reports. Read more
News
May 21, 2010
In the cotton fields of Vidarbha in central India, grief is a constant companion. Wherever you turn, there are heart-breaking stories of suicides of farmers who bought GM cotton seeds, only to have their crops fail. And that awful statistic has... Read more
News
May 13, 2010
Growing cotton that has been genetically modified to poison its main pest can lead to a boom in the numbers of other insects, a ten-year study in northern China has found. Read more
News
May 11, 2010
Growing vast monocrops of cotton, it turns out, is a dirty business. Globally, cotton occupies 2.4 percent of cropland -- and burns through 16 percent of the insecticides used every year, the Environmental Justice Foundation reports. Read more
News
April 29, 2010
Just a few miles from Nike's global headquarters in Oregon on April 28, two Honduran workers revealed Nike's family-destroying labor practices. Read more
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