Stewart + Brown Sustainable Sweaters for Fall 2010 (Photos)

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Published July 15, 2010 at 6:15 a.m.
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Stewart + Brown Image courtesy of Stewart + Brown ... Stewart + Brown's luscious knits for fall have us craving crisp, cool weather. The California-based green fashion label uses only fine merino wool or Mongolian cashmere, culled from a co-op that help nomads in the region sustain their centuries-old practices, in their line of luxury sweaters. We exclusively released images from ...

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How to Mind Your Own Bees Wax

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Published April 20, 2010 at 5:02 p.m.
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Image credit: .martin/Flickr As part of their "I Have a Green Job" series, Grist talks to Michael Thompson, a professional bee keeper and co-founder of Chicago Honey Co-op, an agricultural cooperative that's dedicated to chemical-free beekeeping ...

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Local Fashion NOW: Ryann, Feral Childe, JAI, Loudermilk, and More (Slideshow)

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Published Feb. 25, 2010 at 9:07 a.m.
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Designer Kizzy Knight models a denim vest from her fall 2010 collection at the NOW Showcase. Credit: Emma Grady Local, independent, and sustainable designers showed their designs for fall 2010 this past weekend at the NOW Showcase, an apparel tradeshow co-op. We caught up with Designers Linda Loudermilk; Kizzy Knight from JAI (above); Raina Blyer from ...

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Independent Sustainable Designers to Showcase at NOW During NYC Market Week

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Published Jan. 14, 2010 at 8:34 a.m.
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Credit: Jai, NOW Emerging and independent fashion designers in New York City are coming together for the sake of green fashion to show at the apparel tradeshow co-op NOW Showcase, which occurs during NYC Market Week, alongside D&A, Coterie, and Train. We visited last year and saw innovation in design from reigning green queen Linda Loudermilk to to notable newcomer Sarah Dixons Nova (SDN) -- and their fab ...

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Solar By Numbers Part 1: my meeting with a co-op housing manager

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Published Oct. 1, 2009 at 2:32 p.m.

Some days being a Canadian renewable energy entrepreneur is a lot like being on a police bomb squad ... read more ...

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Is This Permaculture? Building Hugelkultur Raised Beds

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Published Aug. 2, 2009 at 10:14 a.m.
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No Compost and Cornerstone Housing Co-op A mini-digger picking up piles of dead trees, brash and leaves and dumping them in a huge hole in the ground is hardly most people's idea of permaculture - a practice more commonly associated with low tech solutions like chicken tractors, chicken greenhouses and ...

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Eat Khaya Cookies to Support Women In South Africa? No Problem...Or Is There?

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Published June 15, 2009 at 6:30 a.m.
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Image via: Khaya Cookies Recently I sampled several of the creations from the Khaya Cookie Company , a women's cookie co-op located in South Africa, and the only problem I had with them was ... that I couldn't stop eating them ...

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Starbucks Makes Big Investment in Fair Trade

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Published April 20, 2009 at 12:49 p.m.
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CoopeTarrazu co-opWe love our Small-Marts, independent bookstores, locally owned coffee shops. But you can't get around the fact that when the big boys like Walmart or Starbucks make a move, it has impact ... We also love Fair Trade, and you can't get around the fact that while only ten percent of the coffee sold at Starbucks is Fair Trade Certified, that still makes them the largest purchaser in the world, buying forty million pounds of it this year. It can't get enough of the stuff. So now

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Mountain Equipment Co-op

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Published March 4, 2009 at 3:07 p.m.

Mountain Equipment Co-op is Canada's best known outfitter for outdoor gear, ranging from camping, canoeing and kayaking equipment to foul weather and winter gear and much more ... read more ...

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The Cooperative Launches Plan Bee to Help Save UK's Honeybee

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Published Feb. 16, 2009 at 1:30 p.m.
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Cooperative The causes of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) are still in question. While it's surely a combination of factors including climate change and voracious pests like the varoa mite, one of the key suspects is pesticides. Late last year UK farmers demonstrated to demand government action on CCD. While the government may be slow in responding The Cooperative, the UK's largest consumer co-op, has announced Plan Bee, "a campaign to raise awareness about the decline in the British honeybee

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