All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 187
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VF Corporation, the parent of iconic brands such as Timberland,...
VF Corporation, the parent of iconic brands such as Timberland, The North Face, Vans, Wrangler and others, has joined BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy), the coalition that advocates innovative climate and clean energy policies. BICEP was launched in 2008 to propose initiatives in the domains of renewable ...
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Patagonia is extending its Worn Wear recycling scheme to a...
Patagonia is extending its Worn Wear recycling scheme to a number of stores following the success of a pilot launched in its Portland, Oregon store in October 2012. Worn Wear is part of the company's Common Threads Partnership with its customers to take mutual responsibility for the items it makes ...
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La Sportiva and Klean Kanteen have joined the ranks of the...
La Sportiva and Klean Kanteen have joined the ranks of the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA). The Italian brand of footwear and apparel and the U.S. marketer of eco-friendly bottles and outdoor kitchen equipment are the 30th and 31st members that have been welcomed by the industry-sponsored non-profit organization since the ...
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Chaco raised over $7,000 at the fourth edition of its...
Chaco raised over $7,000 at the fourth edition of its annual flip sale, which took place at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show, in August. All proceeds were donated to the Conservation Alliance, a group of outdoor industry companies that fund community-based campaigns to protect North America's threatened wild ...
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Expanding on their collaboration for the production of 100 percent...
Expanding on their collaboration for the production of 100 percent recyclable sandals made with PLUSfoam material, Patagonia Footwear and PLUS Compound Technologies have now launched incentive programs to encourage consumers to recycle their used PLUSfoam flip flops. In view of the end of the summer season, Patagonia is offering consumers ...
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Patagonia has announced a partnership with an organization called Nature...
Patagonia has announced a partnership with an organization called Nature Conservancy and the Argentinian federation of ranchers, named Ovis XXI. The outdoor brand has agreed to buy wool from farmers in Argentina for use in its range of functional underwear. The sheep graze on some 1.6 million square kilometers, about ...
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(Already published in the Asia Outdoor issue) Sympatex and Vaude...
(Already published in the Asia Outdoor issue) Sympatex and Vaude will support the Trail of Change expedition led by a geomorphologist, Hannes Künkel. In August, he and his team, called Third Pole, will go to the Hymalajay to climb one of the mountains that reach above 8,000 meters. There, the group of scientists ...
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Gore-Tex presented the finding of its latest life-cycle assessment study,...
Gore-Tex presented the finding of its latest life-cycle assessment study, developed in cooperation with the Öko-Institute Freiburg, during the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen. In the first half of 2013, Gore-Tex expanded its LCA work to a representative functional outerwear jacket, Gore-Tex Windstopper branded apparel, in order to measure its environmental ...
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The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) elected three companies -...
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) elected three companies - Polartec, Keen and Bergans of Norway - as EOCA Conservation Champions at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen because of the initiatives that they have taken at this and other events to raise funds for the association. Polartec sold 4,800 shirts ...
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Houdini will launch its first sustainability report in September this...
Houdini will launch its first sustainability report in September this year. Taking into account the whole production of the Swedish outerwear brand from May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2013, recycled fiber accounted for 57.7 percent and Bluesign-certified material for 62.3 percent. Materials that were neither recycled fiber or Bluesign-certified accounted ...
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Craghoppers, the U.K.-based marketer of functional outerwear, has agreed to...
Craghoppers, the U.K.-based marketer of functional outerwear, has agreed to seal a strategic partnership with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Fossey was the famous U.S. scientist and environmentalist who sacrificed her live for the protection of the gorillas in Rwanda. The fund is devoted to the apes and the protection ...
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Schöffel announced on the first day of the OutDoor show...
Schöffel announced on the first day of the OutDoor show that its summer 2014 collection will be 100 percent PFOA-free. PFOA is notably helpful to make outer shells more water-repellent. While PFOA does not cause any harm to the user of the garment, its use in production has an impact on ...
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The European Conservation Alliance (EOCA) is celebrating a milestone after...
The European Conservation Alliance (EOCA) is celebrating a milestone after seven years of existence. It now has more than 100 members – 102 to be precise as of a few days ago – following a massive 29 percent increase in the number of new memberships in the last six months. ...
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The Oeko-Tex Association has presented its first sustainability awards to...
The Oeko-Tex Association has presented its first sustainability awards to companies in the textile industry. They were granted to five companies in five different categories. In particular, YKK got the award for quality management and Lenzing got it for product innovation. Other recipients were Sun Hing Industries Holding of Hong ...
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Bluesign Technologies has revised the consumer safety limits on its...
Bluesign Technologies has revised the consumer safety limits on its list of restricted substances. The 2013 revision takes into consideration new scientific knowledge of the toxicological profile of the substances, revised risk assessments, new analytical standards and other elements
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In the context of World Environment Day, which was organized by...
In the context of World Environment Day, which was organized by the United Nations Environment Program on June 5, Vaude announced that it was able to decrease its overall greenhouse gas emissions by 23 percent in 2012 as compared to the previous year. Since last year, the Vaude headquarters in Tettnang, ...
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CAPO, an Austrian specialty headwear brand, donated 600 hats and...
CAPO, an Austrian specialty headwear brand, donated 600 hats and caps to Tumaini, an organization that launched a campaign for albinos in Malawi. CAPO donated hats and caps, equipped with protection from UV rays. The hats and caps were handed out during the “Albinism Awareness Day” in Blantyre, Malawi.
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Pontetorto has announced that its factory in Prato, in Tuscany,...
Pontetorto has announced that its factory in Prato, in Tuscany, is now generating all the energy it needs from solar panels and is operating independently of the public electricity network. The Italian maker of activewear fabrics has set up a network of 7,000 solar cells covering an area of 10,000 ...
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The Sustainability Working Group (SWG) of the Outdoor Industry Association...
The Sustainability Working Group (SWG) of the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) in the U.S. has launched “The Chemicals Management Framework,” a pilot program to help companies examine the use of chemicals in their supply chains and reduce the environmental impact of their products. The tool, developed by and for the ...
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Vaude was nominated for the German Corporate Social Responsibility Award...
Vaude was nominated for the German Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2013, but Hipp won the prize. The competition's award ceremony, which was held for the first time in Germany, took place in Berlin on April 24. Vaude had been nominated in the category of companies with 500 to 4,999 employees, ...
