All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 136
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News briefsNike’s new sustainable ACG collection
Source: Nike ACG Air Mountain Fly Gore-Tex Nike’s ACG (All Conditions Gear) line for this winter will feature some bold new looks, including the new Nike ACG Mountain Fly Gore-Tex, which Nike calls an “adventure-ready outdoor shoe.” The shoe’s extravagant look is defined by its high-cut Gore-Tex ...
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News briefsMammut partners with non-profit organization ClimbAID
Driven by a shared passion for mountain sports and climbing, Mammut and the Swiss non-profit organization ClimbAID have entered into a partnership to bring the joy of climbing to refugees who had been affected by war, poverty and displacement in their home countries. This long-term cooperation will enable the implementation ...
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Thule Group joins Science Based Target Initiative
With the ambition to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, the Thule Group has joined the Science Based Targets Initiative. With this step, Thule is setting even clearer goals for its ongoing long-term efforts to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions and those of its suppliers. Joining the initiative will ...
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ArticleThe Chill Foundation is officially launching in Europe
25 years after Donna Carpenter and her late husband Jake Burton Carpenter, owners of Burton Snowboards, founded the non-profit organization in the U.S. and after 13 years of running small, non-formalized programs in European countries, the Chill Foundation has announced the official launch of its youth-development programs in Europe. With ...
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News briefsKlättermusen launches entirely organically insulated outdoor jacket
The Swedish brand Klättermusen has launched what it claims to be the first completely organically insulated outdoor jacket, the Farbaute. The jacket won gold in the outdoor category and the Sustainability Achievement Award at Ispo Munich earlier this year. The jury praised the jacket’s durability, functionality and design. At the ...
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Fake organic cotton detected in India
An investigation by the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) has identified in India 20,000 metric tons of cotton that were incorrectly certified as organic. The fraud was operated through false raw cotton transaction certificates that used fake QR codes, which led to a cloned website of the APEDA (Agricultural and ...
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U.S. Sea to Summit staff get a free day off to vote on Nov. 3
SNEWS reports that Sea to Summit, the global adventure equipment brand headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, is encouraging civic responsibility by providing its entire U.S.-based staff a paid day off on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 3. The company made the announcement last week that it would provide everyone the day ...
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Oeko-Tex participates in Amazon’s sustainability program
Oeko-Tex, an association of 18 independent research and testing institutes worldwide, which sets standards for more safety in products of the textile and leather industry and their manufacture, is participating in Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly program with Oeko-Tex’s Made in Green label. The program is being launched in Germany, France, ...
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News briefsSafilo produces recycled sunglasses for The Ocean Cleanup
Safilo announced the release of the first sunglasses made for The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch non-profit environmental organization that develops advanced technologies to extract plastic pollution from the oceans. The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses are made of injected plastic deriving from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). They are available in ...
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Moncler makes environmental and social pledges
Moncler has pledged to make its factories carbon neutral by next year and to be using nothing but renewable energy by 2023. The Italian luxury sportswear company will be recycling certified DIST (Down Integrity System and Traceability) down, and thereby cutting its related water needs by 70 percent, as of ...
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ArticleKathmandu benefits from Rip Curl and online; publishes sustainability report
It was the acquisition of Rip Curl that helped Kathmandu Holdings to raise its total sales by 48.7 percent to 801.5 million New Zealand dollars in the “transformational” financial year ended on July 30, with the action sports brand contributing sales of NZ$ 315.7 million (€178.2m-$210.6m) in the first nine ...
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News briefsSchöffel Foundation uses German VAT reduction to support tree plantations
The Schöffel Foundation, founded in 2011 by Hubert and Peter Schöffel, which promotes and initiates social and ecological projects, is supporting tree planting and forest redevelopment in state forests in the German state of Bavaria. German online shoppers can donate the 3 percentage point reduction in value-added tax – one ...
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PrimaLoft’s New York lab receives ISO 17025 certification
PrimaLoft, Inc, the materials technology company headquartered in Latham, USA, with offices in Xiamen, China, has successfully passed the ISO 17025 testing process in its New York laboratory. Meeting the ISO 17025 certification standards shows that a laboratory is competent and produces valid results, which promotes confidence in its testing ...
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A new sustainability alliance of chemical groups
Seven of the world’s leading chemical companies have joined forces on a new commitment to accelerate the adoption of sustainable chemical solutions in the textile and leather industries. The initiative is called Sustainable Chemistry for the Textile Industry (SCTI), and its founding members include Archroma, CHT Group, Huntsman, Kyung-In Synthetic ...
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GSI Outdoors joins prAna’s Responsible Packaging Movement
GSI Outdoors, a family-owned U.S. company producing outdoor cooking and dining gear founded in 1985, has joined prAna’s Responsible Packaging Movement. GSI Outdoors was early to adopt sustainability measures, and continues to investigate ways to make the business’s environmental footprint as light as possible. Over the years, the company has ...
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ArticleTNF addresses inequity in the Outdoors with global Reset Normal initiative
With the Reset Normal campaign, The North Face (TNF) has launched a global initiative to encourage people around the world to redefine their lives through exploration in the outdoors. As part of this initiative, TNF is launching the Explore Fund Council, a global body that brings together experts from the ...
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Textiles expert Verity Hardy to lead EOG’s new sustainability initiative
Source: EOG Dr. Verity Hardy, EOG sustainability project manager Dr. Verity Hardy has been appointed sustainability project manager of the European Outdoor Group (EOG). She has joined the team to lead EOG’s new Climate Action Program, which will start to roll out from November. Hardy will work ...
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ArticleVaude establishes Academy for Sustainable Business Management
Together rather than against one another: After Houdini had just made the development specifications of one of its most sustainable products available as Open Source, the German outdoor brand Vaude has now announced the foundation of the “Vaude Academy for Sustainable Business.” The academy is designed to support other companies ...
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News briefsProtect Our Winters UK launches POW Pledge initiative for climate action
Protect Our Winters (POW) UK launched POW Pledge, a digital portal to equip the industry to take climate action towards net zero. “It’s very simple; our industry has to act on climate change in order to survive,” said POW ambassador Ed Leigh. “The POW Pledge is the map that can ...
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News briefsHigg to launch Open Data Portal to validate brands’ sustainability claims
At the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, technology company Higg Co has unveiled its new Open Data Portal, introducing sustainability transparency to the apparel industry at a global scale. Expected to launch in 2021, the new portal, developed in partnership with the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), will feature access to the actual ...
