August 31, 2007 at 11:05 pm (BACKPACKING, RECYCLED FABRICS)
Tags: ECO-BACKPACKS, GREEN COTTON, GREEN OUTDOOR GEAR, LAFUMA, ORGANIC COTTON, ORGANIC FIBERS
This backpack looks really cool. I wonder about the recycled polyester though and how it will hold up in harsh weather conditions. Seems they are on the right track though. This french clothing company has a solid history.
| When we saw that Lafuma had won another award for their Eco 40 Rucksack we knew it was time to dig around the notes we’ve had gathering dust since this product was released. During 2007 it has scored two gongs. First, the French Etoile de l’Observeur du Design and just last month the Ispo Performance Award for Eco-responsibility. |
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August 31, 2007 at 10:28 pm (RECYCLED FABRICS)
Another cool product– lafuma and these. Source: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/seen_before_slu.php
| What’s with the little flurry of outdoor gear posts, you might wondering. Well, the summer trade shows have now passed, and the detail of upcoming goodies is slowing seeping out into the world wide ether. The goss is that Green is big. And only going to get bigger. Take for example, the rush of recycled content sleeping bags that Alicia MacLeay of Trailspace spied at the Outdoor Retailer show. Big Agnes, of Colorado, will soon have some sleeping bags that are 97% by weight. The missing percentage is the zipper. So the insulation (Climashield HL Green), ripstop shell fabric, plus drawcords and stuffsack are said to all be 100% recycled content. Even the cordlock is 50% corn starch based PLA. Big Agnes are calling the line of bags their Re-Routt collection. Their blurb suggests the lightweight shell material is a recycled nylon. But that appears to be a typo, as most recycled fabrics currently tend to be polyester. (But more on that another day.) |
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August 31, 2007 at 10:22 pm (UNCATEGORIZED)
Treat your baubles with a little TLC, a sure way to extend their longevity, by wrapping them in a soft jewelery roll hand-stitched from salvaged cotton saris and secured with a loop-and-button closure. |
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August 31, 2007 at 10:18 pm (RECYCLED FABRICS)
This product looks interesting– apparently you can get them cheaper in Cambodia however. Nice example of recycled fabrics.
| Treat your baubles with a little TLC, a sure way to extend their longevity, by wrapping them in a soft jewelery roll hand-stitched from salvaged cotton saris and secured with a loop-and-button closure. |
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August 31, 2007 at 10:06 pm (UNCATEGORIZED)
This new line of beauty products looks interesting. The trouble with bees is that the can go everywhere– they fly in and out of different environments and can pollinate on plants/flowers that are not organic. So even if the ingredients in the product are pure and natural, the bees may be contimated thus contaminating the honey. Some honeys are purely organic. But not this honey. Worth giving it a try anyway.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/beeline_beauty.php
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August 30, 2007 at 1:57 am (UNCATEGORIZED)
it is a fact that conventional production methods (of cotton as
well as textiles) are associated with significant and avoidable environmental or health-
related costs |
hese concerns have led to a number of actions to induce a switch to such
sustainable alternatives as organic cotton, integrated pest management, chemical-free
textile processing,
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and effluent quality standards. |
The cotton commodity chain can be divided into three broad stages: production,
processing, and marketing. |
The textiles and apparel industry is a classic example of what Gary Gereffi (1994)
terms a buyer-driven global commodity chain, in other words one that is driven by large
retailers rather than producers or processors. According to Gereffi, commodity chains
have three main dimensions: 1) and input-output structure, 2) territoriality, ie spatial
dispersion or concentration of enterprises of different sizes and types, and 3) a
governance structure, |
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August 30, 2007 at 1:43 am (CLOTHING, GREEN BUSINESS CONSIDERATIONS, ORGANIC FIBERS, UNCATEGORIZED)
Tags: FASHION, GREEN COTTON, ORGANIC COTTON, PAKISTAN, SUSTAINABILITY
This paper provides interesting insights into how the cotton industry is run, key production and profit drivers as well as how the industry can be ‘greened.’
| Recent years have seen growing concern in industrialized countries about the |
| environmental impact of cotton production and processing. The bona fides of such |
| biological diversity. The signing of the GATT agreement added other concerns, in |
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August 30, 2007 at 1:20 am (UNCATEGORIZED)
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