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	<description>a critical look at clothing production networks &#38; corporate responsibility, ethical trade, fair trade by Mark Starmanns</description>
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		<title>Victoria&#8217;s Secret &amp; Bloomberg&#8217;s Secret (updated)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I came across the Bloomberg story „Victoria’s Secret Revealed in African Child Labor“ by Cam Simpson, who stayed in Burkina Faso for 6 weeks to report about child labour in cotton fields. Here are some remarks regarding the article: The article stresses that cotton farmers in Africa work very hard. This is very true. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starmanns1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15023369&amp;post=1088&amp;subd=starmanns1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethical Fashion Digest 12. Dezember 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last 14 days, I was on some cotton fields in Malawi and didn&#8217;t have time to blog. Here are some news of these last days. My favourite news is actually an ad &#8211; Patagonia&#8217;s excellent &#8220;buy less&#8221; ad in the NYT on November, 25th: October / November 2011 3.10.2011: HBR Network Blog: Patagonia&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starmanns1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15023369&amp;post=1081&amp;subd=starmanns1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethical Fashion Digest November 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my second digest of interesting news, articles etc. within the last few weeks. Sorry that I don&#8217;t sum them up, but that would be too much. Read whatever sounds interesting. By the way: Would you prefer to have this digest once a week, every second week or monthly? Thanks for your replies. Newspapers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starmanns1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15023369&amp;post=1078&amp;subd=starmanns1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Standards: Recipes for reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is confronted with standards every day. Lawrence Busch, Professor at Michigan State University, argues that standards, shape not only the physical world around us but also our social lives and even our selves. Busch shows how standards are intimately connected to power&#8211;that they often serve to empower some and disempower others. Busch recently conducted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starmanns1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15023369&amp;post=1063&amp;subd=starmanns1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you love your baby, buy second hand or organic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[baby pyjamas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The German consumer magazine Ökotest recently tested 20 baby pyjamas between 5 and 55 Euros in order to understand how toxic they are to your babies. Among these were three GOTS zertified pyjamas. Ökotest specializes on ecological issues, unlike the consumer magazine Stiftung Warentest. The test resulted in 10 pyjamas (including those from DM, H&#38;M, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starmanns1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15023369&amp;post=1055&amp;subd=starmanns1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What have the unions ever done for us?</title>
		<link>http://starmanns1.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/what-have-the-unions-ever-done-for-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[What have the trade unions ever done]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are still considering whether trade unions are really necessary this great &#8220;remake&#8221; might help. I guess, you find the original on your own &#8230; Ben Moxham of the Trade Union Congress added this comment on the ETI website. &#160; Filed under: Clip Tagged: Trade unions, What have the trade unions ever done<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starmanns1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15023369&amp;post=1052&amp;subd=starmanns1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Misquoted by &#8220;Der Standard&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read that some days ago the Austrian newspaper &#8220;Der Standard&#8221; published an article &#8220;Bessere Mode&#8221; about the sustainable fashion industry, in which Mr. Hilpold mainly refers to quotes from presentations of the Beyond Fashion Summit. Unfortunately Mr. Hilpold seemed to have totally misunderstood me. He indirectly quotes me saying that a sustainable production [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starmanns1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15023369&amp;post=1048&amp;subd=starmanns1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look: An EU Eco-Label for Clothes!</title>
		<link>http://starmanns1.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/look-a-eu-eco-label-for-clothes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markstarmanns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Standard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Ecologist article on Transparent fashion pointed me to the brand Rapanui, which I didn&#8217;t know, but which has some great ideas regarding traceability and labelling: Already in 2008 Rapanui proposed a label like the EU label for electronics. This sounds awesome and is exactly what I recently talked about with Switcher, who also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starmanns1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15023369&amp;post=1040&amp;subd=starmanns1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly ethical fashion news digest</title>
		<link>http://starmanns1.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/weekly-ethical-fashion-news-digest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Altkleider-Lüge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethical behaviour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a weekly update in which I link you to interesting newpaper articles. The selection of articles is arbitrary and the summaries very brief: Guy Champniss, in Guardian Professional Network: How can we change consumer behaviour to benefit the environment?&#8220; presents the concept of &#8220;social labelling&#8221;, which follows the idea that attitudes are formed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starmanns1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15023369&amp;post=1033&amp;subd=starmanns1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EU commission: More CSR obligations for companies</title>
		<link>http://starmanns1.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/eu-commission-more-csr-obligations-for-companies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quiz question: Where is &#8220;shared value&#8221; hidden in this graph from HBR 1/2011? Yesterday, we had a workshop with Seco and Swiss stakeholders, where we presented results of our feasibility study on a &#8220;Sustainable Trading Initiative Switzerland&#8221;. We argued in favour of a national plattform that enables that Swiss companies and public buyers learn more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starmanns1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15023369&amp;post=1024&amp;subd=starmanns1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Fashion Summit in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://starmanns1.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/beyond-fashion-summit-in-berlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday and Saturday I had two inspiring days in Berlin at the Beyond Fashion Summit. The summit was organized by BeyondBerlin, CIR &#8211; in cooperation with ESMOD &#8211; who did a great job in getting an interesting mixture of open-minded people together, which created a wonderful atmosphere. The probably largest companies present were: Jack Wolfskin, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starmanns1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15023369&amp;post=1014&amp;subd=starmanns1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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