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Adidas to Make 1 Million Pairs of Sneakers Out of Recycled Ocean Plastic by 2017

The world's first sneaker made from recycled ocean plastic is headed for the production line. First teased in 2015, the Adidas x Parley for the Oceans Ultra Boost Uncaged is graduating from a limited run of 50 to 1 million pairs by 2017, the sportswear manufacturer said. In fact, the first mass- ...

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Fashion's Deadliest Disaster Prompts Bangladeshi Workers to Opt for University

Three years after the Rana Plaza disaster, a small miracle has emerged from the tragedy and is slowly taking shape in the southeastern corner of the country.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Established in the aftermath of the disaster, AUW's Pathways programme aims to use higher education to empower women labourers to become leaders and have a stronger voice in shaping the future of Bangladesh's lucrative garment sector.

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Ikea to use packaging made from mushrooms that will decompose in a garden within weeks

The furniture retailer is looking at using the biodegradable mycelium 'fungi packaging' instead of polystyrene, which takes thousands of years to decompose

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Dutch Designer Turns Festival Tents Into “Sheltersuits” for the Homeless

Abandoned tents, a post-revel scourge at music festivals like Coachella and Glastonbury, could soon find new life as weather-resistant coats that convert into sleeping bags for the homeless; that is, if Dutch designer Bas Timmer has anything to do with it. Timmer and his business partner, Alexan ...

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More Than Words: The Book Producing Clean Drinking Water One Page at a Time

A single page from The Drinkable Book is capable of filtering 100 liters of water, meaning a single book can supply a person with cleaning drink water for roughly four years. The books cost only dollars to produce, but the team behind it needs help in bringing the technology to scale: pAge Drinking Paper has launched an Indiegogo campaign to trial the filter papers in two villages for a month.

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The Ocean Collection - Recycled Fishing Net Sunglasses

The Ocean Collection prevents discarded fishing nets from entering the ocean through the creation of premium eyewear.

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Tripty Project: Ethically Made in Bangladesh

Clean Materials, Fair Production. Help us show the world that an ethical supply chain is within reach.

Check out hte Tripty Project that fuses handicraft with moder design to produce a line of clothing and backpacks ethically made in Bangladesh, now in fundraising mode on Kickstarter.  

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A Lamp That Collects Energy, Sells It Back to the Grid, and Invests Your Earnings for You? Aspirational, Indeed

The truly smart Aspirational Lamp doesn't just use electricity, but can collect it, thanks to a built-in solar panel and battery pack. When not in use, it will apparently soak up electricity, and theoretically, sell back to the power grid. The over-the-top part? With the money made from that, the Lamp can then apparently invest those earnings automatically into the stock market.

The truly smart Aspirational Lamp doesn't just use electricity, but can collect it, thanks to a built-in solar panel and battery pack. When not in use, it will apparently soak up electricity, and theoretically, sell back to the power grid. The over-the-top part? With the money made from that, the Lamp can then apparently invest those earnings automatically into the stock market.

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'The True Cost' is a documentary film exploring the impact of the global clothing industry on people and the planet.

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Artur 'Bordalo II' upcycles old bumpers and steering wheels to make Portugal's capital city even more magical.

 Arturo “Bordalo II” uses materials like old tires, scrap metal, steering wheels, oil paint, and bumpers to form impressive, larger-than-life 3D murals on walls and back alleys throughout [Lisbon].

The stars of these murals are almost always animals, and the art itself is a mix of Banksy and a more colorful Tim Burton. In Bordalo’s Lisbon, scissor-like beaks protrude from the sides of buildings and a wall becomes a crouching raccoon. Bordalo’s output has been prodigious over the last few months, and Beautiful/Decay was recently able to document them all in one place. Many more can also be seen on Facebook.

More here.

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The Cotton Road

The Cotton Road is a documentary that followes the supply chain of cotton grown in South Carolina to Chinese garment factories.

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Fashion Brands Must Treat Garment Workers as Employees

To improve their lives, garment workers simply need to earn more. But this won’t happen until fashion businesses treat them as their own employees, argues Edward Hertzman.

A really interesting article that touches on one of the core issues in regards to “living wage” 

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Brad Pitt and Sheryl Crow Want to Insulate Homes for the Needy with Your Old Jeans

Both Brad Pitt and Sheryl Crow are backing initiatives aimed at helping responsibly build affordable housing for those in need. Pitt’s non-profit, Make It Right is partnering with American Eagle Outfitters to recycle used denim into building materials for affordable homes; and Sheryl Crow is asking consumers to recycle their unwanted denim to help rebuild New Orleans, on behalf of Cotton Incorporated’s Blue Jeans Go Green™ (BJGG) denim-recycling program.

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These Chinese textile mills are going green—and saving millions

There's still a long way to go, but this is a start.

“Six years ago the New York-based non-profit Natural Resources Defense Council launched Clean by Design, a program focused on getting Chinese textile mills to clean up their practices by emphasizing the financial savings they can reap and using large retailers, which are some of these mills’ main customers, to apply leverage. The retailers who have signed on are Target, H&M, Levi’s, and Gap, and in the last two years Clean by Design has finally come up to scale, as NRDC puts it.” 

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Bestseller donerer tresiffret millionbeløp til veldedighet

Bestseller fik skrabet over 100 millioner sammen, da de afholdt "Give-A-Day", hvor indtjeningen gik til en række forskellige projekter på tværs af Bestsellers mange markeder.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Builds an Eco-Resort

“In what may be his highest-impact leading role yet, the actor Leonardo DiCaprio, the Oscar-nominated “Wolf of Wall Street,” is planning to heal an island.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/realestate/an-idea-hits-the-beach.html?_r=0

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