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Fashion: buying for keeps
In an era of disposable fashion, some designers are trying to change consumer behavior with a new type of longer-living product. We talk to one label that encourages customers to "keep" and "share".

Fashion III: redesigned clothing: A trend among celebrities, DIYers, fashi... [+]

Two decades of eco-fashion: Ethical fashion has gone mass-market thi... [+]

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The Whole Earth Catalog - (products)

A catalog published biannually between 1968 and 1972 -also occasionally from 1972 to 1998- with an independent and counterculture ethos that tried to offer education and access, through a listing of resources and tools, to an ecological and critical vision of the Land and the future of humanity. Th...[+]

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- Hawaii's future (ostanbro)
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