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Economies of Recycling - Cover
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Economies of Recycling – The globalised value of trash

August 8, 2013
That textile waste – in the shape of garments as well as in other incarnation – has increasingly a commercial value in an area of globalised markets was a topic here in Shirahime on more than one occasion. This book takes on a larger perspective: Each chapter of the this book offers insights into the recycling economy of a distincly different industry.
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Ameliap's Compendium of Fashion Illustration
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Drawing the Line on Fashion

February 3, 2011
'Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration' tackles 2 topic at once: Ethical fashion and its designers, and the promotion of fashion illustration as a discipline.
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Il Bello E Il Buono - Marco Ricchetti, Maria Luisa Frisa
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Sustainable Fashion: Italian style and quality too

September 13, 2012
Where Kate Fletcher's books are the ultimate handbooks for fashion creatives, this is the first book that makes - at least in parts - a serious attempt at creating a compelling business case for sustainability in the fashion industry.
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Eco Fashion Cover
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Green Books Campaign: Just great design – ‘Eco Fashion’

November 10, 2010
"Eco Fashion" introduces us to 62 fashion brands from all over the world, that happen to be 'eco'. The pictures show the work of true master designers.
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What growth means, why giving out aid is tricky – and how this all relates to our daily lives

March 23, 2010
"People respond to incentives". Book review of an excellent introduction to the mechanisms and macro-economics behind development and global aid giving.
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Travels of a T-shirt
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A T-shirt that means the world

October 15, 2010
"The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy" takes the exemplary T-shirt, and takes us on a journey to discover its origins. From Texas, to China, to the US again, and then to the second-hand trade in Africa.
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Saubere Sachen - Kirsten Brodde
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Clean Clothes – the consumer’s eco fashion guidebook, made in Germany

September 7, 2011
'Clean clothes' is THE German eco fashion book, already published in 2009. It is pragmatic yet radical, with plenty of hands on tips and explanation you need to understand how and why to change your wardrobe.
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Better Business Series: Experts’ Review of Puma’s Environmental Profit & Loss Accounts (E P&L)

December 12, 2012
On December 14th, PPR published the expert review report on Puma’s Environmental Profit and Loss Account (E P&L). The panel of experts that had been commissioned to undertake the review brought some of the most eminent names in the industry together, among them John Elkington, Peter Bakker, or Pushpam Kumar.
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Frederic Karpyta - La face cachee du commerce equitable
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Skeletons in the fair trade closet – A critical review ‘à la Française’

March 8, 2012
'The hidden face of fair trade' is a thoroughly researched, critical review of the fair trade movement and its players. With France as the primary focus, the author revisits the movement's history, points out paradoxes and problems, and suggest what may, or not, become of it in the future.
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The samurai’s self-sustaining society

January 1, 2012
A fascinating book, full of examples, about how traditional Japanese society innovatively survived in a land of scarce resources, over-population and huge cities.
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Fashion & Sustainability: Design for Change. Kate Fletcher & Lynda Grose
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Design for Change

July 18, 2012
'Fashion & Sustainability: Design for Change' is a worthy successor to Kate Fletcher's first book. Not only does it document the state-of-the-art as we encounter it in the present, but for the first time designers have both: a hands on manual of how they can hands-on change their practise, and what new concepts and technologies will be at their disposal in the near to mid-term future.
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Love the children of all species for all time

March 23, 2010
“When you do something wrong, don’t try improve upon it.” Instead you go back to design of a product, and fix the problem right where it went wrong in first place
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NICE code of conduct and manual - cover
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A nice first step: Review of the NICE Code of Conduct and Manual

May 31, 2012
At the Copenhagen Fashion Summit 2012 the NICE Code of Conduct and Manual was, in collaboration with the UN Global Compact, officially launched. A review of this document, and the impact it may, or not, have onto the fashion industry it is targeting.
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Recycling-Indian-Clothing-Cover
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Local flavours of clothing recycling: India

November 22, 2012
This book emerges itself into how clothing is bought, worn, discarded and recycled within India. In other words, it tracks down how Indian citizens (primarily women) manage their wardrobes, and the strategies and criteria of how they do it.
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Doughnut Economics Title Page
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The Power of 7: Seven Episodes of Old vs New Economics

April 21, 2020
Doughnut Economics = An economic system that respects the planetary boundaries as well as the societal attributes of welfare. To create an economic system that works for the humans and the environment around us.
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Africa Fashion Guide
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Out of Africa – it’s fashion

October 27, 2011
'Africa' & 'Fashion' in one sentence, usually evokes the picture of the cliché matron wearing an attire in recognisable prints. To prove that these may indeed just be nothing but clichés, and that there is much much more to African Fashion, is this book's mission
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Climeworks' Orca plant in Iceland
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Enabling a low carbon future: Emerging Tech – What’s the Hype about?

December 14, 2021
As companies and countries around the world pursue net zero targets, one big question is: How do you ensure the carbon removal technologies we will need 20 to 30 years down the road are available, affordable and easily scaled? S&P Global recently published a podcast mini-series on emerging climate technology. The series not only introduces a range of much hyped about, CO2 saving or CO2 removing technology, but also looks at scaling, the truth of potential impact, and financial viability.It is for this reason that I would like to list the three episodes in this post – and invite everyone to spend the 3 x 20 minutes to wrap their head around these insights.
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The Growth Delusion
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What is the GDP? And: What Growth does it Measure?

February 19, 2020
The Gross Domestic Product (short: GDP) is the for most of the planet THE economic measure of all things. At least if governments as well as the economic newscasts are to be believed. With ‘The Delusive Quest for Growth’ David Pilling has written a biography-cum-history of the GDP: from humble beginnings as an effort to draw up national accounts through the present day incarnation and significance.
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The better consumer in Europe – summary of new report

March 28, 2013
The “Better Consumer” report aims to be a source of reliable information to those executive saying “Show me there is demand, and we'll be happy to cater to it” when asked why their fashion brand is not producing better, more sustainable products.
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Stepping into your Courage
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The Courage to Act: The inside view on creating change

February 16, 2021
Sustainability is usually thought of as an environmental issue. And it is. But but not only. It is in fact a mindset. One that takes courage. This magazine - come out of a creative collaboration - explores three key questions by interviewing personalities in business (Vincent Stanley from Patagonia, Eric Garnier from Choba Choba, Adriana Marina from Hecho x Nosostros, Fergal Smith from the Moy Hill Farm and Andy Middleton from the TYF Group), and by giving space to written creativity of sustainability professionals. The three fundamental questions are: How does ‘creating change’ feel from within? What does it mean to swim against the business mainstream because genuinely the status quo does not work? Where and how does courage come into play?
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