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Sustainable textiles: Fact, fiction and the future

2014-01-21 17:51:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

Sustainability in textiles is high on the apparel industry's aganda, and has the potential to benefit a company's bottom line. But while the issue is far from clear-cut, a new report from just-style rounds up the challenges and opportunities in sustainable textiles - and suggests that being informed is the first step in the journey.

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Sustainable Textiles for Apparel: Fact, Fiction and Future Prospects

2014-01-17 17:51:00| Apparel & textile industry market research - from just-style.com

The report is intended to explore and clarify, as much as possible, the complex and ongoing issues surrounding sustainable textiles for apparel. It will examine and compare natural, synthetic, and reg

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02.11: Science Fiction Book Group

2014-01-14 00:36:39| Powells Books Events Calendar

This month we meet to discuss Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane. Join us!

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A Look at the Growing Genre of Climate Fiction

2013-12-18 09:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: A new class of "climate fiction" has hit the publishing scene. But is it the real deal or just a flight of fancy? Climate Fiction: An Official Genre? There's an unofficial new genre called climate fiction, or more familiarly, cli-fi. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, writing in the magazine Dissent: A Quarterly Journal of Politics and Culture this summer, proclaimed "Cli-Fi: Birth of a Genre." By some accounts, the term was coined by Dan Bloom in 2007 "as a subgenre of science fiction." Since then, and much...

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