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- Urban chic: green, ethical T-shirts with a message
- PARIS AFP — Once cheap and often nasty, T-shirts are back on the streets as ethical message-carrying PC wear that comes with a sizeable price tag for the high-end urban chic. "Absolutely everyone is making T-shirts nowadays," said Guillaume Salmon, a spokesman for Paris' trend-setting Colette concept store. "You...
- Research articles 2007-09-16
- Man Sentenced for Conspiring to Burn Home of African-American Family in Taylor, Michigan
- To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice, 1-202-514-2007, +1-202-514- 1888 TDD WASHINGTON, April 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ricky Cotton of Taylor, Mich., was sentenced yesterday to 78 months in prison for conspiring to violate the civil rights of an African-American family in Taylor. On July 28, 2002, Cotton and several...
- Research articles 2007-04-26
- Rush is on for eco-friendly fair trade fabrics
- PARIS AFP — As consumers wake up to global warming and globalisation, ethical issues are gaining ground and spinning more and more hard cash in the competitive world of international textiles. Organic cottons along with fabrics spun from bamboo, soybean protein fibre, seaweed and ramie -- an ages old...
- Research articles 2007-02-23
- Fashion industry needs to cotton on to green.
- Byline: Duncan Graham-Rowe Dec 13, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- There are many ways in which the clothing and textile sector can reduce its impact on the environment. According to report prepared by two researchers from Cambridge University, they...
- Research articles 2006-12-13
- Fashion industry needs to cotton on to green.
- Byline: Duncan Graham-Rowe Dec 12, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- There are many ways in which the clothing and textile sector can reduce its impact on the environment. According to report prepared by two researchers from Cambridge University, they...
- Research articles 2006-12-12
- SMALL FIRM EXEMPTION AND THE SINGLE EMPLOYER DOCTRINE IN EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAW, THE
- INTRODUCTION Laws prohibiting discrimination in employment often make an exception for the small firm. Title VII,1 which is the model for many other federal and state discrimination laws, sets a threshold for employer coverage at fifteen employees.2 A firm employing fewer employees is exempt. As long as it employs no...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Final '05-crop CCPs paid for some crops; corn soon.
- USDA moved up the payout of final 2005-crop Counter-cyclical payments CCPs for sorghum, peanuts and cotton. CCP marks for cotton and sorghum are the maximums of 13.73 cents/lb. for cotton and 27 cents/bu. for sorghum--minus what you already received. The final '05...
- Research articles 2006-09-16
- OTCPicks.com Welcomes Cotton & Western Mining, Inc. (OTC: CWRN).
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 May 2006-OTCPicks.com: OTCPicks.com Welcomes Cotton & Western Mining, Inc. (OTC: CWRN)C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08052006 OTCPicks.com Welcomes Cotton & Western Mining, Inc. (OTC: CWRN) COTTON & WESTERN MINING, INC. (OTC: CWRN) Detailed Quote: http://www.otcpicks.com/quotes/CWRN.php ...
- Research articles 2006-05-08
- Modified cotton cuts pesticide use.
- May 09, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A particular genetically modified cotton plant needs only half the pesticide of regular cotton, a study has revealed. The two-year study looked at Bt cotton, which produces its own pesticide against bollworm larvae. Some ...
- Research articles 2006-05-09
- [541] Primary production industry - grain, cotton and rice segments draft effective lives released.
- Byline: Terry Hayes Apr 10, 2006 (Weekly Tax Bulletin - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Taxation Office ATO has released a draft list of depreciating assets used in the primary production industry. Associated draft effective lives for assets used in the grain,...
- Research articles 2006-04-10
- Star spot
- Injured Newcastle United defender STEVEN TAYLOR coming out of Northumberland's Foot Locker store with his arm in a sling. Ah, bless his cottons! Get well soon Steven. TV agony aunt DENISE ROBERTSON travelling in GNER's first class carriage from Newcastle to London while chatting away on her mobile phone....
- Research articles 2006-02-03
- US Congress eliminates disputed cotton subsidies
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US Congress passed legislation ending cotton export subsidies that had been condemned by the World Trade Organization, the US Trade Representative's office said. The House of Representatives voted for the legislation, which had passed the Senate late last year. President George W. Bush must now...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Sweet Home Alabama
- Field after field of cotton used to line Interstate 85 between Montgomery, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. Today, industrial plants and manufacturing facilities fill the fields that once squared up and set bolls. Tall pines and an occasional pecan grove surround what's left of east-central Alabama's cotton--20,000 acres, most of it...
- Research articles 2005-12-28
- Triple Punch Pests
- Nothing deserves a good one- two punch like a nematode. For the coming season, there's a new product aimed at knocking out this troublesome pest. Syngenta's Avicta Complete Pak, which is ready to launch for the 2006 growing season, is essentially a triple whammy of seed treatments in...
- Research articles 2005-12-28
- CHINESE COTTON SAW FAST PURCHASE AND SALE LAST DEC.
- AsiaInfo Services 01-29-2007 Chinese Cotton Saw Fast Purchase and Sale Last Dec. BEIJING, Jan 29, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Cotton price rose again in China last December, with the purchase and sale accelerating pace meanwhile, said the Nat AsiaInfo...
- Research articles 2007-01-29
- WTO talks run into powerful US cotton lobby
- WASHINGTON AFP — More than any other commodity, cotton is interwoven into the fabric of US history, and to this day American farmers of the emblematic white crop exercise an outsize influence. World Trade Organisation talks in Hong Kong have been riven by angry complaints from West African cotton...
- Research articles 2005-12-16
- In Benin, "king cotton" has become a curse
- DJOUGOU, Benin AFP — Under a blazing sun, his powerful chest muscles glistening with sweat, 41-year-old Gafary Maya pauses a moment to speak of his plight as a cotton grower here in the west African state of Benin. "At the end of the last season I produced 80 tonnes...
- Research articles 2005-12-11
- US urges emerging market countries to lower duties on cotton imports
- GENEVA AFP — The United States, often accused of distorting trade in cotton by subsidizing its farmers and thereby harming African producers, called on emerging market nations to lower their tariffs on imported cotton. "Some of the most important markets for cotton where the Africans or we are going...
- Research articles 2005-09-16
- Central Textiles First Mill in H.K. and China to License EFS System
- Central Textiles Hong Kong Ltd., a 52-year-old privately held company announced that it would implement, in August, Cotton Incorporated's suite of software called the "Engineered Fiber Selection" EFS Cotton Fiber Management System, becoming the first licensee in Hong Kong and China. "The EFS System is the world's leading cotton management...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Wearing your values: eco-fashions are on today's runways.(Consumer News)
- During New York's famed Fashion Week last February, there was one show that drew environmentalists along with the trendy regulars and entertainment celebrities. Such well-known designers as Diane von Furstenberg, Halston and Oscar de la Renta participated in FutureFashion, a show featuring outfits made from eco-friendly...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
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