In the Habit of Smiling

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Not a Drop to Drink: America’s Very Real Water Crisis (Infographic)

“Over-consumed and under-conserved by an ever-growing global populace, freshwater is the “next oil,” the single biggest issue facing our world in the 21st century, say experts.”

“Replacing grass lawns with native plans (especially in dry communities) can save over 15,000 gallons per year.”

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This is so sad :( Everyone should buy a potted christmas tree and then replant them, or get a fake one! “Discarded Christmas trees were piled at Amsterdam and 67th Street in Manhattan on Jan. 3.” - Wall Street Journal Photos of the Week.

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future-eco-design:

It’s beautiful.The delicate grain of bamboo, whether natural or amber-toned, make it a distinctive, elegant, and subtle material for fine furniture and flooring.
It’s strong.
Bamboo can withstand a great deal of use without damage. It’s stronger even than oak, considered the most durable hardwood. When laminated, bamboo is nearly as strong as soft steel. Bamboo doesn’t swell or shrink as hardwoods do, making it ideal for furniture and floors.
It grows fast.
Bamboo is not a tree—it’s a grass, and it grows like one. Many species of bamboo can grow two feet or more a day. When it’s harvested, it need not be replanted, because it will grow a new shoot from its extensive root system. So bamboo renews itself readily, unlike hardwood trees, which, once cut, are gone forever. Bamboo is an endlessly renewable resource.
It enhances the environment.
Farmed bamboo stabilizes the earth with its roots, preventing erosion. It takes in greenhouse gasses and produces oxygen. In fact 35% more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees. It can also provide habitat for birds and animals (though our bamboo is not preferred by pandas, and is therefore panda-safe).
It’s world-wide and historic.
Our bamboo comes from China, but the adaptable bamboo will grow most places on earth. Wherever it is native, bamboo has been integral to the economy and culture, used for cooking, beverages, paper, houses, and bridges. In China, it’s known as the “friend of the people”.

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Link to Greenpeace's "Dirty Laundry 2" report (pdf)

thegreenshows:

Greenpeace purchased articles of clothing at an array of retailers, and had the garments tested by an independent laboratory for the presence of a hormone disrupting chemical used to launder the clothing after dyeing.

All but one of the garments tested positive for this hormone disruptor, despite a number of the suppliers having promised to clean up and green up their supply chains.

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Green Links from Jonano Organic Design

“Why should sustainability be stuffy, unaffordable, or overcomplicated?…”

This is why I want to work for companies like this! They are intellectual wholesome community oriented AND passionate about fashion!! Right along side their lookbooks, and sales, they have a link from “Our Community” to “Who we love…” and you click on “Green Links”. They list at 80 links for information on

Sustainable cotton production, Pesticides, Labor issues and sweatshops, Healthy Living, Cooperative Associations, Local Champions, Retail Co-ops (non-grocery) , Fair trade, Telecommunications Co-op, Rural Electric Co-ops, Organic info AND MOREEE!!!!

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Dominated by large global corporate groups, and their sponsored media who encourage a dream lifestyle of selfishness, apathy, superficiality, greed, sex and drugs to a growing audience of billions, fashion has been sold to the rafters, leaving it’s consumers and producers poorer, dumber, and more ill-equipped than ever, to face combat, or survive the doomsday scenarios that everyone from religious fanatics to Nobel laureates predict will take place in within a lifetime. Fashion is indeed a massive human, social and environmental disgrace in need of a paradigm shift.

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Geoffrey B. Small

— excerpt from the preface of Sass Brown’s Eco Fashion

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