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Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

In 2004, the Premier Organics collections featured both Nike Organics products and apparel containing a blend of organic and conventional cotton. For spring and fall 2005, the White Label collections for men and women featured organic cotton. Since fall 2002, they have increased the number of styles containing 100 percent certified organic cotton from six to ninety-eight, with the overall number of apparel units produced growing from ten thousand to just over 1 million.

For example, their estimates for the 2004 retail year show that close to 30 percent of Nike apparel cotton materials contained some percentage of organic cotton fiber. In 2004, the Premier Organics collections featured both Nike Organics products and apparel containing a blend of organic and conventional cotton. For spring and fall 2005, the White Label collections for men and women featured organic cotton.

Organic Clothing American apparel www.americanapparel.net Blue Canoe www.bluecanoe.com Chandler & Greene, Inc. www.chandlergreene. com Eco-ganik VAVw.ecoganik.com Inner Waves Organics Maui www.innerwavesmaui.com NatureUSA www.natureusa.net Of the Earth soy-based clothes www.oftheearth.com Patagonia www.patagonia.com Stewart + Brown www.stewartbrown.com Fashion Linda Loudermilk www.lindaloudermilk.com Organic Flowers Organic Bouquet www.organicboquet.com Natural and Organic Mattresses Abundant Earth www.abundantearth.com A Happy Planet www.ahappyplanet.com A Natural Home www.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Look for the following practices and traits common to socially and environmentally responsible apparel: they traveled to hang in your closet. Unless the label explicitly says the garment was made under fair labor conditions, you can't be sure. Perhaps more than any company before, American apparel has brought a significant wave of mainstream attention to this issue. The popular maker accomplished this not by selling outrage toward companies who perpetrate poor conditions in their factories, but by creating a real alternative with immense commercial appeal and well-strategized marketing.

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Since fall 2002, they have increased the number of styles containing 100 percent certified organic cotton from six to ninety-eight, with the overall number of apparel units produced growing from ten thousand to just over 1 million. "Our goal is to blend a minimum of 5 percent organic cotton into all of our cotton-containing materials by 2010, while steadily expanding our offering of 100 percent certified organic cotton products." They currently source organic cotton fiber primarily in the United States, India, Turkey, and China.

Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means Ron Garner See book keywords and concepts

This can be avoided by exercising each day wearing loose apparel that allows the breasts to move. FRESH AIR Breathing is very important. In one day the average person inhales about 2,880 gallons (10,901 liters) of air, which weighs more than the food and water we consume, and eliminates carbon dioxide, equivalent to eight ounces (236 ml) of charcoal, via the lungs.4 Complete breathing is fundamental to health. When we do not breathe properly, or only practice shallow breathing, we are allowing too much carbon dioxide, a metabolic waste product, to accumulate in the body.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Stacy Malkan See book keywords and concepts

Ten minutes later, the girls walk by dressed in Teen Campaign for Safe Cosmetics apparel. "Look, look," Katie points. "They're wearing their new T-shirts, how cute!" Katie is the epitome of cute herself. With polka-dotted shoes, sparkling eyes and the perfect pony tail, she could easily be one of America's Top Models, who are staring vacantly from every post outside the mall. But Katie has other things on her mind, and she offers a refreshing counterpoint to the messages of conformity and corporate-logo sameness that surround us.

Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation Charles Barber See book keywords and concepts

Put another way: the $7 billion of profits Pfizer amassed in 2001 was greater than the Fortune 500 profits in the home building, apparel, railroad, and publishing industries combined. Merck's profits that year exceeded the combined profits of the Fortune 500-listed semiconductor, pipeline, food production, crude oil production, hotel, casino, and resort industries.4 The compensation given to the top executives is equally transcendent. Wlliam C. Steere Jr., Pfizer's chairman, made $40 million in 2000 as Pfizer's chairman.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

In a bright green world, every shop would stock a selection of equally appealing, yet far more responsibly created apparel at reasonable prices, much like standard grocery stores that now have an aisle or two of natural foods. But for now, we have to read labels and keep our eyes and ears open for new developments. Look for the following practices and traits common to socially and environmentally responsible apparel: they traveled to hang in your closet. Unless the label explicitly says the garment was made under fair labor conditions, you can't be sure.

Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton See book keywords and concepts

A company specializing in natural hemp clothing, bags, jewelry, footwear, organic cotton apparel, household and body-care products. Chemical Information Web Sites Shirley's Wellness Cafe www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com An excellent health resource for humans and pets. Shirley's Wellness Cafe is well worth a visit. Silent Spring Institute www.silentspring.org Silent Spring Institute is a nonprofit scientific research organization dedicated to identifying the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer. Fluoride Action Network www.fluorideaction.

Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies Greg Critser See book keywords and concepts

She raised the kids, cooked, cleaned, worked in an apparel shop, took home piecework, and made wedding gowns on the side with her sister-in-law Florinda. As a new abuela, she rose to the role, walking her grandchild A.J. to school and back, cooking for the extended family, and making clothes to fill the new financial gaps. Lazarro, a member of Local 32, endured. The work was hard, but it was a job and, strange for the times, it was always there. Siempie. In August 1997, Lazarro said something that only a spouse of many years can get away with saying.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Perhaps more than any company before, American apparel has brought a significant wave of mainstream attention to this issue. The popular maker accomplished this not by selling outrage toward companies who perpetrate poor conditions in their factories, but by creating a real alternative with immense commercial appeal and well-strategized marketing. Organic or Renewable Fibers: A number of fabrics now on the market do minimal damage to the earth, biodegrade fairly efficiently, and come from renewable resources. And we're sorry to say, the Cotton Board's "Fabric of Our Lives" is not one of them.

Because they are made with cellulose (the natural biopolymer found in all plants), they wick moisture away from skin, which makes them excellent for athletic apparel. You'll find them frequently in bedding and clothing. Bamboo Fiber: Bamboo can be made into yarns of various qualities and thicknesses. One of the most renewable resources for fiber and building materials, bamboo has enormous versatility and durability. Bamboo is commonly woven into fiber blends for everyday garments like socks, sweaters, and stretch pants.

But it is a preferable alternative, and quite widely available in everything from apparel to bedding, towels to tampons. Modal and Lyocell: Made from beech wood pulp, these fabrics are incredibly soft, breathable, and pliant—think of the thin, worn softness of your favorite old T-shirt. The textile industry in India welcomed these new materials several years ago as a good replacement for polyester and rayon, because they serve the same function in manufacturing, without taking the same toll on the environment.

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet Jeremy P. Tarcher See book keywords and concepts

As Global Exchange's fair-trade organizer, Deborah James, explained to us, "Starbucks had seen Kathie Lee Gifford's clothing line exposed in anti-sweatshop campaigns and had seen the consumer backlash against the apparel industry. They didn't want to be the Nike of the coffee industry." Returning from Europe, we marched into the nearest Starbucks and, sure enough, there it was: packages of Starbucks' new line of fair-trade-certified coffee beans in their own display rack near the counter. But consumer demands didn't stop.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

A McKenzie study team visited a Saturn auto-assembly plant and a Levi Strauss apparel plant in Tennessee looking for tips on labor-saving techniques and processes on a manufacturing assembly line that might be adopted by hospitals. Patient care could be industrialized, just like making cars or a pair of pants.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Similar conditions exist in the textile and apparel industry. SOURCE: The Nation, 8/25/79, "Asia's Silicon Valley," by Diana Roose. UPDATE: In 1996, similar conditions in the apparel industry became a national scandal when highly paid entertainers and sports figures, such as Kathy Lee Gifford and Michael Jordan, were forced to explain how they could profit from corporations that exploited Third World children (Time, 6/17/96). While the 1979 Censored story specifically warned that U.S.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

Competition in automobiles, electronics, and apparel has worked wonders to provide good quality and low prices. But in health care, the multiplicity of plans hasn't helped consumers at all, because most people actually have few choices. Those who have health coverage usually must join one of the handful of plans selected by their employer or dictated by where they happen to live. Unlike buying a car, you can't shop around for the best deal on the model of your choice. In the end, while every plan follows a unique set of guidelines and procedures, each does pretty much the same thing.

Hemp Today Ed Rosenthal See book keywords and concepts

Hemp is a versatile fabric which can be used for many purposes including apparel, accessories, upholstery and architectural purposes. Fair quality hemp yarns which can be knitted rather than woven have already been produced in China. Higher quality yarns are on the near horizon. Much of the hemp cloth produced in China and Hungary is suitable for clothing including shirts and pants. This cloth can be dyed using techniques for natural fibers. These cloths and finished garments made from them are marketed internationally.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

UPDATE: In 1996, similar conditions in the apparel industry became a national scandal when highly paid entertainers and sports figures, such as Kathy Lee Gifford and Michael Jordan, were forced to explain how they could profit from corporations that exploited Third World children (Time, 6/17/96). While the 1979 Censored story specifically warned that U.S. electronic firms were operating Third World sweatshops for assembly line production, at the time it was assumed that jobs requiring higher education qualifications would remain in the U.S. Now it appears that is no longer true.

Breast Cancer? Breath Health! The Wise Woman Way Susun S. Weed See book keywords and concepts

Wear loose-fitting clothing, and limit or eliminate constricting apparel such as tight rings, heavy bracelets, underwire bras, clothing with tight armholes, and heavy purses. • Homeopathic Silica is the remedy used by those with swollen lymph nodes, skin infections, and cold extremities. The symptoms that Silica treats often develop slowly and leave one feeling confused, tired, and very vulnerable. • Manual Lymph Drainage, a slow, spiraling, gentle massage lOJ that barely touches the skin, is very effective for treating mild lymphedema.

Healing Moves: How To Cure, Relieve, And Prevent Common Ailments With Exercise Carol Krucoff and Mitchell Krucoff, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

And remember these weight-training ABCDs: * apparel. Any comfortable clothing is fine for lifting weights, from tank tops and shorts to leotards and tights, although some gyms have dress codes requiring people to wear T-shirts. But it's important to wear shoes with good support and to remove any jewelry that could catch on the equipment. Wear weight-training gloves if you want to avoid developing calluses. * Breathe. Inhale as you prepare to move the weight, then exhale on exertion and inhale on release.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Consumer Price Indexes (1982-84 = 100) year all items food shelter apparel telephone 1960 29.6 30.0 25.2 45.7 58.3 1970 38.8 39.2 35.5 59 2 58.7 1980 82.4 86.8 81.0 90.9 77.7 1988 118.3 118.2 127.1 115.4 116.0 1989 124.0 125.1 132.8 118.6 117.2 1990 130.7 132.4 140.0 124.1 117.7 1991 136.2 136.3 146.3 128.7 119.7 1. includes upkeep. Source: u.s. bureau of labor statistics, Monthly Labor Review consumer price index An index of prices for a representative sample of goods and services published by the government each month.

Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise Debra Lynn Dadd See book keywords and concepts

Labels are purchased by manufacturers for apparel, knitwear, floor covering, upholstery materials, blankets, and bedspreads. Since 1964, over fourteen thousand companies in ovet fifty countries have been licensed to use it. Items beating this logo must be of pure wool and be labeled "100 percent pute wool," "100 percent vitgin wool," "all pure wool," or "all virgin wool." The Woolblend Mark was introduced in 1972 by the Wool Bureau, Inc. Products displaying this logo must contain at least 60 percent wool and identify all nonwool components by theit genetic names.

The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World's Most Extraordinary Plant Rowan Robinson See book keywords and concepts

Industrial textiles and apparel now account for 59 percent of the United States' imports and 21 percent of the United States' trade deficit. The machinery no longer exists to spin long fibers like flax and hemp, but hemp can be extruded into rayon or shortened, like cotton, for existing machinery. Retooling would enable more types of weaves that take advantage of the longer fiber length hemp offers, and create an economic opportunity that should not be underestimated. During World War II, the cost of retooling for hemp was paid in just five years with rentals and profits.

The AIDS War: Propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide from the Medical-Industrial Complex John Lauritsen See book keywords and concepts

Act Up Act Up has positioned itself as the radical wing of the AIDS Movement, through highly imaginative political art, through catchy slogans (most notably SILENCE = DEATH), through bizarre forms of street theater, through dramatic forms of confrontation politics; through distinctive apparel, and through leftist rhetoric. Stylistically, Act Up is hot stuff, but it's all phoney. "Information from Blaine Elswood, Item 5162, AIDS Information Bulletin Board, San Francisco, 7 November 1992; and Wendell Ricketts, op. cit. 17John James, AIDS Treatment News, Issue #169, 19 February 1993.

1001 Chemicals in Everyday Products Grace Ross Lewis See book keywords and concepts

ATOMIC NUMBER 12 MAGNESIUM AMMONIUM PHOSPHATE_ Products and Uses: Used as a fire retardant for fabrics, canvas products, tents, camping equipment, and firefighter apparel. Precautions: Harmless when used for intended purposes. Synonyms: MAGNESIUM AMMONIUM ORTHOPHOSPHATE MAGNESIUM CARBONATE_ Products and Uses: An additive in inks, dentifrices, cosmetics, free-running table salt, antacid, and foods. Used as a drying, color-retaining, and anticaking agent. It is the synthetic form of mineral magnesite. Precautions: Harmless when used for intended purposes.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

The junta transmitted these charges to the US news media through an array of hired lobbyists and PR representatives, including George Demougeot, who also represented a US apparel firm with an assembly plant in Haiti, and Stephen A. Horblitt and Walter E. Faunteroy of Creative Associates International Inc.23 Another employee in the PR campaign was Darryl Reaves, a one-term Florida state representative who worked to arrange interviews and Capitol Hill connections for Francois and Cedras. Reaves avoided publicity for himself, telling reporters, "I don't exist.

Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise Debra Lynn Dadd See book keywords and concepts

This law applies to all yarns, fabrics, household textile articles, and wearing apparel. Imported goods must also adhere to this law, and the label must also reveal the country of origin. This labeling appears along with the name of the manufacturer, the size of the garment, and cleaning instructions, and is usually attached to the seam of a garment near the waist or hemline. This is what is required on the label: • Fibers must be listed in descending order according to percentage by weight (e.g., "80 percent polyester, 20 percent cotton").

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