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		<title>Live from the VISION SUMMIT 2008 in Berlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just freshly arrived with Noel from Karmakonsum at the Vision Summit conference on Social Business in Berlin. In the first speech, professor Werner, founder of the drugstore DM, makes a strong note for a basic income for everyone. This will stimulate a new kind of economy. Everyone who did not yet get warm for this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coolest Designers of the Ethical Fashion Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ethical Fashion Show 2008 is over again. For those who can&#8217;t wait till the next edition, the Ethical Fashion Show is also opening in Milan and Rio de Janairo, as we heard when we spoke with Isabelle Quehe, founder of the Ethical Fashion Show. An important indication that ethical fashion is establishing as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Trade Week in Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From next week, it&#8217;s Faire Woche (Fair Trade Weeks) in Germany. All over the country there are local events to promote fair traded products, and the events go from local charity groups that do an action, to lectures and festivals. In Hamburg there will be a podium discussion on Responsibility in Fashion with Alexandra Perschau [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Designers join Fair Wear Foundation collectively</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewear, a Dutch initiative that promotes green fashion, organizes a joined membership of the Fair Wear Foundation for designers and smaller brands. On the 4th of September, during a meeting on Green Profit, the two organizations will sign a contract that the Fair Wear Foundation will engage itself supporting and controlling the brands and designers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Tibet Shoes by Komodo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just had a good long lunch with Gereon from Komodo and afterwards picked up these cool Free Tibet shoes at their new Berliner showroom in the Oranienstrasse. They are going to be on sale in February next year so I was lucky to pick up these prototypes. Komodo is quite an authentic fashion brand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report by Clean Clothes Campaign: Sportswear Brands Still Violate Workers Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike all new attems of companies like Adidas to become a &#8220;responsible&#8221; company, a new report by the Clean Clothes Campaign, published today, states that in the sports wear industry the situation is still inhuman. The CCC report shows that the addressed companies have gained enormous profit growth during the past few years. The profit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Womens Day &amp; the Garment Industry: it&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Sweat on Your Shirt</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/womens-day-the-garment-industry-its-womens-sweat-on-your-shirt.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a billion people (!) are working in textile related industries worldwide. Many of them are women, working from home, in slum situated sweatshops or high tech factories. As known, the circumstances are not always that funky. Without drawing to all the rights, justice or sexism issues of the women&#8217;s right movement, just think about [...]]]></description>
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