Eco-awareness and an increased demand for safer products continues to spread in the global marketplace, which could very well be why organic cotton is currently enjoying its well-deserved time in the limelight. Whether we slide underneath cozy organic cotton bed sheets, wrap ourselves in a downy-soft organic cotton bath towel or try on a simple organic t-shirt for size, the opportunities that today’s modern consumer has to purchase certified organic products has grown in leaps and bounds. They say that numbers don’t lie, a claim made even more concrete by the fact that global organic cotton sales in the retail market, which hovered at $1.9 billion back in the year 2007, climbed to $3.2 billion just one year later. As mainstream retailers such as Target, Wal-Mart and H&M hop on the organic cotton textile products bandwagon, global efforts to generate certified organic cotton crops will undoubtedly follow suit. Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged Mother Nature
Conventional Cotton Farming Suffers From Toxic Flaws
For every destructive insect invader, there seems to be an equally motivated buggy defender prepared to rise up and turn the tide in favor of a crop’s survival. One can’t help but wonder why commercial farmers fail to rely exclusively on this built-in system of checks and balances – but then, the obvious comes into focus. Oh right…it all boils down to time and money. Mother Nature tends to take her sweet time restoring the natural order to a crop ecosystem, however, in our fast-paced society where livelihoods are contingent upon absolute guarantees of Read the rest of this entry »
The Casualties Of A Plastic-Obsessed Culture
How sad that Mother Nature’s innocent bystanders are often the ones who pay the ultimate price for society’s eco-irresponsibility. If the eyes are truly the windows to the soul, then imagine how heartbroken the seabird above must have been as it witnessed the transformation of its natural landscape into that of a plastic dumping zone.
Experts say that global warming is largely responsible for compromising the food sources of countless species around the world, so it’s hardly surprising that the unfortunate subject of our photo ended up dining on a steady stream of plastic waste. Hey, a bird’s gotta eat, right? In defense of our hungry seaside feathered friends everywhere, it can be Read the rest of this entry »
Cotton Pests That Deserve The Royal Stink Eye!
The history of cotton is deeply embedded within the fabric of our global society – in fact, a diverse tapestry of cultural textures can be unraveled at every turn. The incredibly practical material has made its way from the caves of Mexico and the river valleys of Egypt and Pakistan to multiple Asian civilizations and even into the New World, leaving nary a region untouched. As an indispensible vegetable fiber-producing crop, it has become as ubiquitous to humanity’s survival as water and food. It has woven its way into practically every corner of our lives to such a degree that the Read the rest of this entry »
The Cure For Veggie Deprivation
Has the economy’s persistent and ongoing downward spiral caused you to bemoan the ouch-factor of a myriad of basic yet frequently-used pantry staples – the very same ones that were comparatively dirt cheap just a few years Read the rest of this entry »
Hunger PANG(ER) Management, The Way Momma Nature Intended!
You scale the USDA’s food pyramid day in and day out, honoring and upholding its revamped, garishly colored nutritional guidelines. You’ve found that going heavy on the whole grains, veggies and fruit (and light on the animal Read the rest of this entry »
Houston: I Think We Have A Sasquatchean Carbon Footprint Problem!
I’ve never quite understood the point of carbon credits, in which consumers pay a third party a specified fee to lessen the impact of their carbon footprint by theoretically removing an equivalent amount of greenhouse gas from Read the rest of this entry »
Raise A Glass To The Uber-Sustainable Cork Tree!
Drawing a cork out of its ‘wine bottle soul mate’ with a signature squeak can be likened to the effect that Pavlov’s bell had on his dogs. Hotly anticipated, the nectar within titillates the taste buds with equal parts ceremony and reward. Read the rest of this entry »
Brown Smog Shouldn't Cloud Our Global Judgement
As residents of the planet earth, it is somewhat easy to get caught up in the notion that we are merely specks in the grand scheme of things. Our 196,950,000 square mile planet, a spherical mass of rock, liquid iron and nickel, Read the rest of this entry »
May The Force (Of Nature) Be With You
From a distance, the blue marble that we fondly refer to as our planet of residence appears to be a scintillating, undulating spectacle of seductively swirling clouds entangled in a rhythmic dance with lush land masses and Read the rest of this entry »
Agricultural Biodiversity 