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Top Fashion Designers Think Fair Trade for EJF Cotton Campaign

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Published Feb. 6, 2010 at 9:07 a.m.

Credit: EJF The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has just launched a set of sustainable t-shirts designed by the likes of haute couturiers John Rocha, Zandra Rhodes, Luella Bartley, and Christian Lacroix -- to name a few -- for summer 2010. The t-shirts are made with fairly traded Continental cotton from Turkey are are designed around the theme, "childhood, lost innocence and hope" in light of EJF's newly release report, "Slave Nation" on their campaign to end child labor in Uzbeki ...

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Burt's Bees Launches New Acne Treatment

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Published Jan. 27, 2010 at 9:06 p.m.

Image via Burt's Bees. We recently had the opportunity to try a fairly new product from Burt's Bees within their line of acne treatments. Now all-natural acne fighting products aside, we've never like any sort of acne treatment. It seems to rip the oils we have left out of our already dry skin. But since we use Burt's Bees for so many other solutions, well, we waited until a stray pimple popped up and dabbed on the spot treatment before we went to bed ...

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ARMO: Exchangeable Shoes by Rodrigo Alonso

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Published Jan. 26, 2010 at 8:40 a.m.

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Photos: Courtesy of Rodrigo Alonso ... A funny look but interesting idea: ARMO is a line of ready-to-assemble shoes meant to be transformed, customized, disassembled and flattened. Produced under fair trade practices by a group of people in need, they come inside an envelope, saving space in transportation and being extremely portable by users. A close-up in the extended ...

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Design Competition Supporting HEAL Africa to Launch During Nolcha Fashion Week

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Published Jan. 19, 2010 at 8:10 a.m.

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International ethical fashion showroom Bel Esprit is launching Donate Design to HEAL Africa, a sustainable business project during Nolcha Fashion Week--held simultaneously with New York Fashion Week for independent designers--on February 11, 2010. According to Bel Esprit, the project will support HEAL Africa to develop fair trade cooperatives in the Democratic Republic of Congo and will kick off with an international t-shirt design competition with the theme, "for those who dream of a beautiful

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The Story of a Hemp Bicycle and a Bamboo Bike Bus

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Published Jan. 15, 2010 at 9:13 a.m.

Photo: Spiegel (Bamboo utility bike in Africa) Spiegel International have a wonderful write-up (in English) on bamboo bikes. It covers how Craig Calfee's dog inspired him to make a bike from bamboo, How he subsequently won trade shows awatds "Best Road Bike," "Best Off-Road Bike" and "Peoples' Choice" for his bamboo designs, how they were lab tested tougher than carbon fibre. Andrea Reidl's article goes to explain how Calfee is now passing on his secrets to African villagers so they might have

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Fair Trade Farmers Spearhead Climate Adaptation Efforts

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Published Jan. 9, 2010 at 9:21 a.m.

Image credit: AdapCC One of the stranger memes to come from the recent influx of climate skeptic/denialist commenters on this blog has been the idea that the developing world can't afford robust action to cut emissions. Yet the evidence keeps on mounting that the poor will be hit hardest by climate change, with ...

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McDonald’s Going Green(washing) With New Logo

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Published Jan. 8, 2010 at 12:44 p.m.

McDonald’s has rolled out a new logo in France, replacing the iconic red background of the golden arches with green. Here’s some info from ZLOK design blog, and here is where I saw the story originally (although I can barely stumble through the French!), at TerraEco.net.There has been so much fluff news lately about “easy [ ... ]Related posts: Why Aren’t Terrorists Protesting the Gay Vegan Hemp Store? ...

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Tom's of Maine Founder Shows us How to Produce Ethical Wool Undergarments (Slideshow)

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Published Jan. 8, 2010 at 10:24 a.m.

Sheep on Rambler's Way farm in Kennebunk, Maine. Credit: Rebecca Grady What's the best way to produce ethical wool undergarments? Tom Chappell, founder of Tom's of Maine -- which sold to Colgate for $100 million in 2006 -- shows us with a tour of his Rambler's Way farm in Kennebunk, Maine. There, the sheep provide wool for his new business venture, ethical fashion brand Rambler's Way ...

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First in South America: Uruguay to Test Cultivation of Industrial Hemp

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Published Dec. 22, 2009 at 8:45 a.m.

Hemp harvesting. Photo: Wikimedia ... Great news for TreeHuggers in South America: Uruguay could become the first country in the region to authorize the cultivation of industrial hemp, according to El Pais newspaper. The national Ministry of Cattle, Agriculture and Fishing has authorized an experimental cultivation of hemp to take place in october 2010. If the results are successful, the country could grant permits to producers to start growing ...

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'Body Shop' Sisters Open Upscale Sex Boutique in New York City

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Published Dec. 10, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.

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Fair Trade silk blindfold and tickler. Credit: Coco de Mer Samantha and Justine Roddick, daughters of Dame Anita Roddick of The Body Shop, have opened Coco de Mer in New York City's NoLiTa neighborhood. The luxury ethical and eco erotica boutique debuted eight years ago in London and carries high end luxury items including phthalate-free designer sex toys--like jade and onyx dildos that can cost up to $13,000--click through for some more (mildly ...

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