Is Cotton Sustainable? Part 3
In my last post, I investigated the issue of cotton as a sustainbable product from the perspective of Cotton Incorporated. But when investigating a complex and multifaceted issue such as...
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Is Cotton Sustainable? Part 4: The Cotton Fields
As mentioned in my last post, my goal of critically assessing cotton as a sustainable fiber produced conflicting information and varying opinions among those involved in supporting the growing of...
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Is Cotton Sustainable? Part 5: Organic Cotton
As I mentioned in my last post, the Sustainable Cotton Project (SCP) sponsored Farm Tour occurs each year during cotton harvest. This a day-long event is designed to give participants a 360 degree...
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Is Cotton Sustainable? Part 6: Cotton Harvest
Cotton farmers have many challenges and fighting pests is only one of them. The changing agricultural landscape of the San Joaquin Valley poses other, equally significant problems. California cotton...
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Is Cotton Sustainable? Part 7: Picking the Cotton Fields
The next stop on our cotton farm tour sponsored by the Sustainable Cotton Project was a field currently being harvested. Cotton is planted in April, matures over the summer and is harvested in...
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Is Cotton Sustainable? Conclusion
Is cotton a sustainable fiber? In my last series of posts, I have tried to look at the issue of sustainable cotton production from many perspectives in order to answer that question. I have...
View ArticleEnsuring the Integrity of Sustainability Claims
Ensuring product integrity has been a central theme in many of the conference I have attended this year and certainly a major topic of conversation in most, if not all, of my interviews of people...
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In my last post I began to look at the issue of brand integrity and its increasing importance in the world of sustainability. My interviews with various professionals in the apparel and textile...
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Pendelton Woolen Mills, Washougal, Washington.
While in Oregon in February investigating the sustainability effort of the apparel industry in the Pacific Northwest, I took a side trip to tour the Pendelton Woolen Mill in Washougal, Washington....
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Cone Mills, Greensborough, North Carolina
I just returned from a two week trip that took me to North Carolina and to New York City for two conferences and multiple site visits. My next few posts will focus on what I learned on this whirlwind...
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