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This spring and summer, celebrate the warm weather with sustainable, lightweight knitwear from Myrrhia Fine Knitwear . Created from sustainable merino wool, cotton, and tence l by Oakland, California designer Myrrhia Resneck, each piece uses only fibers grown and spun in the USA. Self...
in the world’s oceans and visions of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch invariably come to mind. But an emerging breed of “microplastics,” defined as any plastic particle smaller than 1 nanometer—or one hundred-thousandth the width of a human hair—is raising health and safety concerns on...
Your running shoes may be leaving a heavier footprint on the planet than you imagined, according to a study published in the April 2013 issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production . A life-cycle assessment by MIT’s Materials Systems Laboratory found that an average set of trainers gene...
As dozens of anti-sweatshop protestors faced arrest outside Gap’s annual shareholder meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, the retail giant defended its decision not to sign the legally binding Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. Although 38 Western brands and retailers, ...
Making a ring from pocket change may be an old-hat concept by now, but for a web designer with no metalworking experience to take on the task of outfitting his fiancée? Now that takes amore. Michigan resident Richard Crawford decided that a store-bought wedding band would be too imper...
wants to play fairy godmother. The outdoor-apparel giant has announced plans to invest more than $20 million in like-minded, socially responsible startups through a new in-house venture fund. Known as “$20 Million & Change” —the name is a nod to both the initial capital and its potent...
“The only ‘liability’ that derives from the accord is the enforceable obligation to abide by its terms,” they wrote in the Los Angeles Times on Friday. “The global brands and retailers that have signed recognize the agreement must be legally enforceable so that all stakeholders will b...
in 2007, she noticed some people, not all, were sharing stories about the clothing they were selling that varied from being funny to sad and historical. She’s tapped into those stories from many angles throughout her professional career from hosting creative writing workshops at Phila...
