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Many sports and outdoor companies have committed donations to the...
Many sports and outdoor companies have committed donations to the relief efforts organized by several organizations for the survivors of the strong earthquake that struck Nepal on Apr. 25, which has caused more than 4,000 deaths at last count. Sherpa Adventure Gear has set up a fund to collect at ...
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Billabong has renewed its partnership with SurfAid, a charity that...
Billabong has renewed its partnership with SurfAid, a charity that aims to improve the health, wellbeing and self-reliance of people living in isolated regions near the world's most iconic surf spots, with a focus on reducing infant mortality. As part of the deal, Billabong will help to launch Surf Aid ...
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Etnies has announced it has reached one million trees in...
Etnies has announced it has reached one million trees in its “Buy a Shoe, Plant a Tree” reforestation program. The Californian footwear brand started the program in 2011, when its owner and chief executive, Pierre-Andre Senizergues, decided to plant a tree in the Costa Rican rainforest for every pair of ...
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Hi-Tec Sports USA has announced it will be donating shoes...
Hi-Tec Sports USA has announced it will be donating shoes to the National Odd Shoe Exchange, a non-profit organization which distributes footwear to those requiring single shoes or pairs of differing sizes. The organization, founded in 1943 by Rubin Feldman, serves people with injury, disease and genetic disorders, considering that ...
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Bergans of Norway is looking for 30 outdoor enthusiasts to...
Bergans of Norway is looking for 30 outdoor enthusiasts to test prototypes for the new Ecodear jackets, developed in partnership with Toray, the Japanese high-tech textile group. Applicants have to fill out a questionnaire on the Ispo Open Innovation platform. In the course of the project, testers will discuss product ...
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Puma and H&M have teamed up with Worn Again, a...
Puma and H&M have teamed up with Worn Again, a U.K.-based recycling start-up, to test an innovative textile recycling technology, which Worn Again claims is the first of its kind. One of the issues in textile recycling is how to separate blended fiber garments and how to separate dyes and ...
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Patagonia has announced an investment in Beyond Surface Technologies (BST),...
Patagonia has announced an investment in Beyond Surface Technologies (BST), a chemical company that uses sustainable technologies, based on natural substances, to produce high-performance textile treatments. The investment, the details of which have not been disclosed, has been made by Patagonia through its $20 Million & Change venture fund, created ...
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Greenpeace has labeled Nike and Li Ning as “greenwashers” for...
Greenpeace has labeled Nike and Li Ning as “greenwashers” for not fully keeping their promises regarding the ecological sustainability of their supply chains. Greenpeace's Detox campaign, launched in 2011, calls on companies to commit to an individual “Detox solution” to eliminate the use and release of all hazardous chemicals from ...
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Patagonia wants to give its contribution to the completion of...
Patagonia wants to give its contribution to the completion of the Patagonia National Park, located in the Patagonian region, shared by Argentina and Chile. The outdoor brand has presented Mile for Mile, a 15-minute film celebrating the Patagonian landscape through the sport of trail running, in an effort to attract ...
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Adidas says that more than 30 percent of the cotton...
Adidas says that more than 30 percent of the cotton it sourced in 2014 was sustainable cotton, or Better Cotton, exceeding a target of 25 percent. It came mainly from farmers in India, Pakistan and Brazil. As a founding member of the Better Cotton Initiative, Adidas has pledged to use ...
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Ykk is working on the development of an “Eco-Dye” technology...
Ykk is working on the development of an “Eco-Dye” technology that aims to reduce to nearly zero the quantity of water used for dyeing zippers. The company is currently working on the application of the Sfd technology, a method which uses carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dyeing medium that makes ...
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Adidas ranks third among the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations...
Adidas ranks third among the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World. Corporate Knights, a Toronto-based media and investment advisory company, announced its tenth-annual list of the world's most sustainable companies, also known as the Global 100, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21. The ...
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Bluesign has reminded bluesign-certified manufacturers and brands that they are...
Bluesign has reminded bluesign-certified manufacturers and brands that they are to have no long-chain C8 durable water repellents (DWR) in their products or supply chains as from Jan. 1. However, the Swiss certification company also mentioned that the positive list of bluesign-approved chemical products (bluesign bluefinder) includes several short-chain DWR ...
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Haglöfs has won the Sustainability Brand of the Year award,...
Haglöfs has won the Sustainability Brand of the Year award, from the Swedish trade magazine Sportfack. It was presented at Swesport, the Swedish outdoor and sports trade show, which ran in Stockholm on Jan. 11-12. In 2013, Haglöfs defined an array of ambitious sustainability goals that would be achieved in ...
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Primaloft has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC). It will...
Primaloft has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC). It will contribute data and resources to support the Higg Index. More than 140 companies are already members of SAC, incluing global members and retailers such as Adidas, Nike, VF Corp., C&A, Gap and H&M.
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Fjällräven has made a “Down Promise” that all its new...
Fjällräven has made a “Down Promise” that all its new products will only use ethically produced down feathers of the highest quality. After several years of work on this increasingly sensitive issue, the Swedish company says it is now working with one supplier who shares its views on animal welfare, ...
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VF Corporation and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the...
VF Corporation and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have announced they have distributed loans to three garment factories in Bangladesh - Arunima Sportswear, Olio Apparels, and Radisson Apparel – totaling $1.3 million, under a new program for funding fire and building safety improvements. Through the ...
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Releasing its first Sustainability and Responsibility Report, VF Corp. says...
Releasing its first Sustainability and Responsibility Report, VF Corp. says it will expand its CHEM-IQ program, intended to identify and eliminate, by 2015, harmful chemicals before they reach the manufacturing process. The report states that 10 percent of VF's sales are made with eco-friendly products and that 3 percent of ...
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The Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand Didriksons has completely eliminated...
The Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand Didriksons has completely eliminated the use of fluorocarbons in all its products for its spring 2015 collection. According to an article published in Sportfack, Didriksons has been phasing out fluorocarbon base treatments for water repellency for years, and has now found a material that ...
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Kering has announced a five-year partnership with the London College...
Kering has announced a five-year partnership with the London College of Fashion's Centre for Sustainable Fashion. The collaboration will include a series of annual talks, an annual fashion prize and academic modules focused on green fashion issues. The Kering Talks will take place in October each year, with leaders and visionaries ...
