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On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude devastated the island nation of Haiti. The powerful quake collapsed over 250,000 residences, leaving roughly 1 million people homeless. The world itself shook with the impact of the relief effort. International aid agencies and private citizens responded with an outpouring of donations. The focus of the relief effort [...]
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If you’re living an eco-conscious lifestyle these days, you put out your recycling each week, dispose of any chemical wastes from your house properly, and you seek out organic options when you shop for groceries. But if you’re doing all of these earth-friendly activities wearing a cotton t-shirt, you could be hurting the environment more [...]
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“King Cotton” – For generations that slogan personified the Southeastern United States reliance on cotton as the predominant cash producing crop. Well, the “King is Dead; Long Live the King” – Bamboo. Actually, before the coronation, a few things need to be put into place to ensure bamboo’s ascendancy to cotton’s throne. Rest assured, King [...]
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Bamboo is the fastest growing woody plant on earth, period. Back in 2005, it was estimated that there were approximately 37 million hectares of bamboo resources on our planet. As coincidence would have it—when I went to Google to convert the hectares to acres, I ran across this—“Over the last five years, the world suffered [...]
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The FTC recently accused four companies of making false and/or misleading claims about their bamboo textile products, possibly including bamboo sheets or bamboo clothing. There were three main *violations*, according to the FTC. Here are the FTC’s supposed *truths*: A. “Textile fiber products are not bamboo fiber, but instead are rayon, a regenerated cellulose fiber.” [...]
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