Author: Daniela
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Sustainable Fashion Design Competition – Ecochic Design Award
Sustainable fashion design competition Ecochic Design Award 2013 kicked off in Shanghai on May 24. In its fourth cycle this year, the competition is expanding its search for creative design talentsfrom eight countries and regions to “further ignite positive change” in what’s believed to be oneof the world’s most polluting industries. “Sustainability in the fashion industry is an over-discussed but under-actioned issue,” saysChristina Dean, CEO and founder of the NGO Redress, Hong Kong, the initiator of thecompetition. Founded in 2007, Redress is an organization with a mission to promote environmental sustainability in the fashion industry by reducing textile waste, pollution, water and energy consumption. In 2010, the organization launched the award in Hong Kong and later expanded it into Chinese mainland with growing popularity. “Not enough focus is being put on reducing waste. We must crack the industry’s problem of excessive waste production and lost economic value,” Dean says. Statistics from World Bank showed that 17 to 20 percent of industrial water pollution comes from textile dyeing and treatment. A single pair of jeans, for example, could cost about 3,000 liters of water for growing the cottons needed, washing the jeans and the manufacturing. Dean says she expects the competition to educate and enable emerging designers and students to minimize wastage and utilize textile wastes in their competition outfits, and hopefully, future works. Designers are challenged to use sustainable design techniques – zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction.
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Quote For The Day
Originally posted on The Dish: “Looking at Western societies I think that if we have religion, we shall have to have religion without God, because belief in a personal God is becoming increasingly impossible for many people. It’s a difficult question actually to know what believing in a personal God is. I know that I…
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Sunday Prayer
At First, It is True, I Thought There Were Only Peaches & Wild Grapes To my delight I have found myself Born Into a garden Of many fruits. At first it is true, I thought There were only Peaches & wild grapes. That watermelon Lush, refreshing Completed my range. But now, Child, I can tell…
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Art and Science Unite at Stanford
By Angela Hayes, Peninsula Press An excerpt from this article is below. Read the full story on the Peninsula Press. Once emphatically separated from each other, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and art are connecting in exciting and enlightening ways. Stanford University, known for its strong science and engineering programs, is part of this trend. An increasing number of…
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Community Ownership at top of Organic Farms’ Agenda
News of community buy-outs in Scotland has become more common in recent years, as land from Assynt to Eigg and Knoydart to Gigha and South Uist has been taken into local ownership with the help of the Scottish Government in a bid to give control of the land to the people who live on it.…
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Become a WWOOFer and Travel The World For Next to Nothing
WWOOF — an acronym for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms — offers you a way to travel the world for next to nothing. (Normally, you pay only to get there.) At the organization’s website, you can search the database of organic farms around the world to see who’s looking for someone to help out. WWOOF hosts are those…
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Umbrella
Originally posted on Viewfound: More beautiful photography from Biswajit Dihidar. Viewfound View original post
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Saturday Prayer
WOLVES The birds’ departure from his heart leaves the plains white where the story is white and sleep is white and silence is the caller’s icon. A laugh of sand will sprout when the door is opened from fear’s angle, a hymn for the grand winter, and the voices of those who left long ago…
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Canadian visa refusal for Palestinian poet overturned after social media campaign
A social media victory is being claimed on behalf of the leading Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan after his visa to enter Canada to attend a prestigious poetry award ceremony – initially denied – was granted on Thursday. Zaqtan was shortlisted for the C$65,000 (£41,000) Griffin poetry prize in April for his 10th collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows…
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Asia Curbs US imports of wheat after genetically modified sample found
The discovery of rogue genetically modified wheat in a farmer’s field in Oregon shook global confidence in the safety of America’s food supply on Friday. Billions in food exports were potentially at stake following the disclosure by the US Department of Agriculture of the existence of the GM wheat plants. The GM variant, developed by the agricultural giant Monsanto, has never…