LS&Co. Unzipped
Mar 02 2011
(Green) Parks for People
Imagine growing up without a neighborhood park – a place to run and play and dream. For too many children, that’s a reality. Streets and vacant lots – not the safest places – become the next best thing.
Posted By: Meghan Pecaut, The Trust for Public Land |
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Mar 01 2011
Buy New...Or Make Do?
How old’s your cell phone? Your home computer? Your car? Your Levi’s® jeans?According to The New York Times, you’re holding on to things longer than in the past.As a company that makes money by selling you new things, how do we feel about that? Actually, we’re okay with it.According to the Times:
Posted By: Cory Warren, Editor, LS&Co. Unzipped |
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Feb 22 2011
GoodGuide, You and Your Clothes
So, just how much do you know about those jeans you’re wearing? Or that t-shirt? Where were they made? And how?More and more consumers want answers to these questions. They want to know how a manufacturer’s practices affect the environment, workers and communities.Leading apparel companies have developed initiatives to monitor factory conditions, measure energy and water use, and even trace cotton to its source. But this information has primarily been used internally.Until now.
Posted By: Dara O'Rourke, GoodGuide Co-Founder |
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Feb 22 2011
Levi Strauss Foundation: Why We Do What We Do
Within the first year of opening his dry goods company in San Francisco, Levi Strauss made a financial contribution to a local orphanage. It was 1854, nearly a decade since he had left a dicey economy and religious persecution in Germany.In 1897, not long after Levi Strauss & Co. began manufacturing denim overalls, he funded scholarships at the University of California in Berkeley. Half of these were for women, at a time when they were largely excluded from higher education.
Posted By: Daniel Lee, Executive Director, Levi Strauss Foundation |
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Feb 17 2011
Around the World: Doing the Right Thing Matters
The competition between the two neighboring shoe factories reached the point a few years ago where the owners refused to talk to each other.Until last month’s fire.It was about 5 o’clock in the morning when the blaze broke out in the small Brazilian town of Picada Café. It started at the Cooper Shoes factory. If something wasn’t done quickly, both it and the Sugar Shoes factory located next door, would easily be destroyed.Here’s where it gets interesting.
Posted By: Choke Huckuntod, Levi Strauss & Co. Social & Environmental Sustainability |
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Feb 09 2011
Fighting for Change
“If my grandmother, who lived and cleaned houses in Jim Crow South, would’ve ever been told that her granddaughter would get paid to talk about freedom, she wouldn’t have believed it.”
Posted By: Daniel Lee, Executive Director, Levi Strauss Foundation |
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Feb 04 2011
Worn-Out Art
Leave it to art students to turn worn-out blue jeans into works of art.The students are from the San Francisco Art Institute. And they worked with us on a unique case study. The focus? Sculpture and sustainability. The medium? Recycled denim.Over the course of their four-week intensive, Sustainable Sculpture, the students met and talked with Levi Strauss & Co. experts. We shared what we know about sustainability, the life cycle of our products, denim design and production.
Posted By: Cory Warren, Editor, LS&Co. Unzipped |
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Feb 01 2011
Hand-Crafted Surfing
Danny Hess makes his surfboards the old fashioned way: by hand, one-at-a-time, with wood. It’s his passion.
And a lot of the surfers who borrow one for a test ride end up buying one. That helps Danny keep his passion alive.
He tells his story himself much better than I ever could. In this Dockers® video, you’ll learn how Danny took a chance...and now earns his living…doing something he loves.
Posted By: Cory Warren, Editor, LS&Co. Unzipped |
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Jan 27 2011
Ordinary People. Amazing Stories
In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Obama talked about America being “the story of ordinary people who dare to dream.”Hard-working people are striving to overcome adversity all the time, right in our own backyard. Imagine, for example, purchasing your own home only months after being on the verge of homelessness. That’s exactly what Helena Edwards did -- with some help from EARN, a Bay Area non-profit that helps low-income families build prosperity by matching their savings.
Posted By: Matt Silva, Levi Strauss Foundation Communications Fellow, EARN |
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Jan 05 2011
Cutting Carbon in the World's Workshop
When you buy something made in China, chances are it was made where I live, in the Pearl River Delta, one of the fastest growing regions in the world.The Delta is made up of Hong Kong, Macao and nine municipalities in the Guangdong Province of Mainland China. It’s a major manufacturing base for garments and textiles, electronics, toys, and much more. In fact, there’s so much manufacturing here, the Pearl River Delta is sometimes called “the world’s workshop.”
Posted By: Karen Ho, WWF-Hong Kong |
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