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In the TEXTILES ISSUE
Damien Sanfilippo, Cotton Project Officer at
Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN-UK) tells us
of his realisation about the Cotton Industry.
We hope you really enjoy Pecha Kucha. Have a great weekend.
Rachel, The Natural Store x
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SELVEDGEFor The Fabric of Your Life
Selvedge was developed without any outside funding, launched without a marketing budget and has grown into a cult Textile Design Publication due to fantastic word of mouth reports. They are close to their second birthday which is a real achievement, clearly the time was right for a magazine like Selvedge.
Polly Leonard, Editor of Selvedge, explains why she was determined to create the ideal magazine for those who love textiles...click here
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WHO DOESN'T WANT Beautiful, Classic and Conscious Everyday Wardrobe Essentials?
Look in any woman’s wardrobe and you’d be hard pushed not to find a white t-shirt in there somewhere. The white t-shirt is one of those reassuringly basic items. Casual enough to go with jeans, but classic enough to wear under a suit. You can’t really go wrong with a trusty T – but can you?
Read Penny Jones' crusade to create beautiful, everyday essentials with a wearable difference!
Big Business The Triodos Bank Annual Meeting Sat, 8 April 2006 International Convention Centre, Birmingham. more info |
Green Design Creativity with a Conscience 31 Mar - 25 Jun Special Exh Gallery Level 3 Museum of Scotland Admission free more info |
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HOW BIG IS A T-SHIRT'S ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT?How to create the Perfect T-Shirt with the smallest ecological footprint. Some of you may already have heard about Better Thinking's Perfect T-Shirt Project. It's our attempt to take a universal symbol of consumer society, something that pretty much every person in every country in the world can relate to, and then find the most socially positive and environmentally responsible way to produce it.
Click here to read about Better Thinking's quest and how they want to hear your opinion by VOTING for which T-Shirt you think should be produced
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| Fleurianne, aged 9, lost 4 years of schooling after a pesticides accident |
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COTTON AND DEATH7 months ago, I had never heard of Organic Cotton. “Organic Cotton! Can you eat it?” was, I must confess, my first thought when, for the first time, I saw the word Cotton associated with Organic. An hour later, having read PAN UK’s material on the issue, I felt ashamed about my level of ignorance...click here
NEWS FOCUS - What's being talked about in the PressA Gripping Yarn. The cashmere sweater, a wardrobe staple and mainstay of the Scottish knitwear industry, is under threat. Jane Wheatley reports for Times 2 that China is cutting supplies of yarn to protect the steppes habitat. Click here for article.
A Natural Selection. Charles Darwin spent years analysing species around his home. The Guardian discusses how campaigners now want the land saved as a world heritage site. Click here for article.
Ban on Seal Products would knock sense into Canada. Robbie Marsland, the UK Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, discusses with The Guardian. Click here for article.
'Sustainability' used to be just for hippies. In America, it's now big business, says Oliver Bennett from The Telegraph. Click here for article.
The Ethical Travel Guide - EUROPE, AMERICAS, AFRICA, ASIA AUSTRALASIA. Your passport to globe-trotting without a guilt trip by Simon Calder, Travel Editor, The Independent. Click here for article.
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| Selvedge - Issue 10 | |
We would love to know what ethical clothing labels you would like to see at The Natural Store.
Tell us in the box below and click the 'Submit Answer' button. We will then select, at random, a winner to receive the latest issue of SELVEDGE. The winner will be notified via their email address and we will publish the winner's name in the next issue of Pecha Kucha.
The winner of our last competition to win 2 tickets to the Ideal Home Show was Chris Fawcett from London. Well done Chris!
If there are any products or features you would like to see
covered by Kucha, we’d love to hear from you!
Click here to send us your suggestions