In the past sustainable and socially conscious fashion was a bit bland. The misconception must have been: “Eco-conscious people like the Earth so let’s make everything look earthy!” or “Let’s put a whale on it!” There is nothing wrong with earth tones and t-shirts, plain or printed, but sometimes a shopper is
looking for an item that provides more color or fit. Fashion designers have stepped in to fill the need but their items can be expensive. Eco-fashion is a certainly a trend but it’s not trendy: meaning it’s here to stay.
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How Many Plastic Bottles Does it Take to Make a Dress?
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on Friday, 03 February 2012
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There is Nothing Green About Sweatshops
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on Sunday, 25 December 2011
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Do you keep up with the Kardashians the E! Network’s favorite reality television family? If you do then you know the family’s matriarch, Kris Jenner, is suing Star magazine and the Institute for Global Labour
and Human Rights (IGLHR) for insinuating they use child labor and employ workers in deplorable factories to make their QVC clothing and accessories lines. Jill Fritzo, a representative for the family, told E! News, “The story is not true.” The original source of the claim is IGLHR’s director Charles Kernaghan. He did some backpedaling in the media after admitting he had not personally visited the factories the Kardashians are using. A day in court might be worth it to the IGLHR if it means extra awareness has been brought to their cause.
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There was once a turtle so large, they say it was the size of a Smart car and that if it had wanted it could have eaten a small crocodile. That’s what paleontologists from North Carolina State University have concluded in a paper recently published about the discovery of 60 million year old fossil they call Carbonemys. In 2005 Edward Cadena, a doctoral student from the university, discovered the turtle’s fossilized remains in a coal mine in present-day Colombia. It lived 5 million years after the dinosaurs disappeared and according to the article it lived amongst other giant...
Why did the chicken cross the road? He was going to give you the answer but he didn’t think you were listening. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia are studying “avian expressiveness” and they think all those squawking birds may be trying to tell us something. "Many poultry professionals swear they can walk into a grow-out house and tell whether a flock is happy or stressed just by listening to the birds vocalize," Wayne Daley, a principal research scientist from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) told Rick Robinson from the...
What do soda and cigarettes have in common besides their ability to kill you? They both can alter the way your brain works. There was a British study earlier this year that reported prospective memory loss in smokers and yesterday a UCLA study reported that a diet heavy with foods that contain fructose, specifically high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) like soda and practically everything else we like to eat- because it’s a preservative- can slow the brain. This slowing affects memory and the ability to learn but there is a way to lessen the damage. Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a professor of...
The traditional pairing of white wine with a fish dinner has another relationship aside from your plate and palate. Biologists at the University of California, Berkeley have found that fish and viticulturists in wine country may be unknowingly competing for one of the state’s most limited resources: water. Take a guess as to who is losing the struggle? There is a fifty/fifty chance you guess correctly. If you guessed the fish and are clutching a bottle of wine you are correct and win that bottle you are holding. Theodore Grantham, the study’s lead author and a Ph.D. graduate from...
Today may be the dreaded beginning of the week but as you slog through your Monday it’s never too soon to start thinking about the weekend. Saturday is “National Kids to Parks Day” (KTP Day) and the official mascot, Buddy Bison of the National Park Trust (NPT), wants kids and their families to visit a green space. Parks -city, state, and national- across the country are hosting events to encourage people to experience and explore nature. This only the second annual KTP Day and last year’s activities drew more than 15,300 families outside to hike, kayak, birdwatch, fish,...
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1944: Camano Class Light Cargo Ship was laid down for the US Army as FS-289 at Wheeler Shipbuilding in Whitestone, NY.
1945: Delivered to US Army.
1950: Acquired by the US Navy on July 1, 1950 and placed in service as USNS New Bedford (T-AKL-17).
1954: The movie, Mister Roberts, was made on the USNS New Bedford (T-AKL-17).
1955 - 1963: Used as a cargo supply ship for the Texas Towers, a network of advanced radar stations located off the Eastern Seaboard. In 1957, Capt. Sixto Mangual was commander of the AKL-17 and in 1961 it was rechristened the USNS New Bedford. The New Bedford, sailing out of State Pier, was keeping vigil when Texas Tower No. 4 callapsed off the New Jersey coast during a January 1961 nor'easter.
1963: Reclassified as Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX-308).
1971: The New Bedford (IX-308) served as a Torpedo Test Firing Vessel in the Puget Sound area.
1994: Ceremony in New Bedford.
1995: The ship was struck from the Naval Register on April 4.
2004: The Sea Bird's current disposition is a tuna long liner (fishing boat) out of San Diego, CA.
2006: Design of the Tesla Turbine began on June 11, 2006. The Sea Bird was sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service for commercial service.
2007: The Sea Bird was drydocked for renovations.
2008: The Sea Bird setting sail to Sea-Tac in Seattle, WA.
2009 - 2010: The Sea Bird is currently docked at Seattle Sea-Tac.
