By: ortabluteam2

Arvind and Birla Launch The Excel Denim
04/06/2011

A partnership between Arvind denim and Birla Cellulose has resulted in the creation of a great denim product – the Excel…

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Fair Trade Growing Fastest in Mainstream Supermarkets
04/06/2011

Fair Trade product sales are growing faster at mainstream supermarkets than at specialty and natural grocery stores, according to third-party certifier…

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PPR Group Brings Sustainability Initiative to Gucci, Stella McCartney and Yves Saint Laurent
04/06/2011

Fashion & Beauty Fashion conglomerate PPR Group — home to luxury labels Gucci, Puma, Yves Saint Laurent, and Stella McCartney —…

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IKEA Pledges to Transition to 100% “Better Cotton” by 2015
04/06/2011

IKEA wants all its cotton to adhere to Better Cotton Initiative guidelines by the end of 2015, according to a 2010…

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Advances in the Ammonia Mercerization And Finishing in Denim
04/06/2011

The use of ammonia in mercerization has been known since the 1930’s and was developed commercially for fabric processing around 1970…

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Cotton Crosses $2 Mark, Sets Records
04/06/2011

Cotton settled at $2.04 a pound for the March 2011 shipment at the InterContinental Exchange (ICE New York Futures) on February…

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Can We Do Without the Mideast?
04/06/2011

IMAGINE a foreign policy version of the movie “Groundhog Day,” with Bill Murray playing the president of the United States. The…

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COPENHAGEN EVENT: Towards Sustainability in the Fashion and Textile Industry
04/06/2011

Event Starts: April 26, 2011 8 a.m. Event Ends: April 27, 2011 5 p.m. Sustainability and CSR are increasingly areas of…

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What’s the Carbon Foot of Love, and How Do We Reduce It?
04/06/2011

Cars & Transportation As my bio states, as a younger, idealistic activist in England, I once vowed never to fly again….

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Six Magazine, the “Ethical Vogue,” Debuts in the U.K.
04/06/2011

Have you heard about Six Magazine yet? It’s being pitched as Vogue for ethical fashion. “Six” refers to fashion’s “sixth sense,”…

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