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Article Thumbnail FTC warns retailers about misleading labels on bamboo products
Feb 10, 2010
REI was among 78 national retailers that received letters from the FTC warning that stores might be breaking the law by selling bamboo-based products with misleading labels. SNEWS talks to the FTC, REI and The North Face.
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Article Thumbnail Did you hear?...Clubs see profits going hand-in-hand with implementation of green practices, according to survey
Feb 10, 2010
Is creating a green business becoming more of a reality within the fitness industry? Seems so, according to the results of a recent IHRSA survey -- if a green ka-ching is also part of the equation.
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Article Thumbnail Passion, protests and rallying for change – Letitia Webster on the Copenhagen climate change conference
Jan 8, 2010
Back from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, we asked Letitia Webster of The North Face for her take on what it was like to attend such a controversial, high-profile event attended by world leaders, and peppered her with questions like, what does an attendee actually do at such a gathering?
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Article Thumbnail Did you hear?.. Kansas University fitness center powers ‘green game’ ESPN telecast
Dec 21, 2009
While the hoopsters were dunking, the fitsters in the University of Kansas fitness center were pedaling like hamsters to make sure the lights stayed on in the gym, using retrofitted ellipticals.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor companies flex muscle with BICEP to pass climate and energy bill
Nov 18, 2009
The North Face, Timberland and Clif Bar have added their collective muscle to BICEP, a coalition of corporations lobbying the U.S. Senate and the White House to pass a comprehensive energy and climate bill -- but much more needs to be done. Find out how.
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Article Thumbnail Timberland puts boots on feet of Crenshaw High School Eco Club students
Oct 14, 2009
Timberland donated 100 pairs of boots to the dean of Crenshaw High School for giving his students a chance to leave the at-times stressful confines of South Los Angeles to go on weekly hikes, community service outings and backpacking trips. Could this be a model for diversification in the outdoors?
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Article Thumbnail Health & Fitness Business '09: Pre-show service project at a Denver Boys & Girls Club brings big thanks to fitness industry
Aug 10, 2009
Instead of putting and driving their way around Denver's Green Valley Ranch Golf Course to raise money for charity, volunteers from the fitness industry this year met the day before the show at a local Boys & Girls Club for an afternoon of cleaning, organizing and networking.
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Article Thumbnail Nau’s Grant for Change program takes off in first week
Jul 15, 2009
In only a week since Nau first announced the company was launching Grant for Change, a program that will become an annual giving event designed to recognize an individual or group bringing positive change to the community, the site has received more than 58 nominations with more coming in daily.
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Article Thumbnail Unfurl eco boutique shares green philosophy with the masses along Oregon coast
Jan 9, 2009
Along the Oregon coast in the small beach community of Manzanita sits a modest-sized store with a big eco conscience. Unfurl has been in business for four years driven by a boutique philosophy that emphasizes environmentally friendly and eco-conscious apparel, footwear and various lifestyle accessories.
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Article Thumbnail Did you hear?...Modern-day monkey-wrencher stirs it up in Utah to the applause of many
Jan 5, 2009
Like the infamous George Hayduke from the Edward Abbey book "The Monkey Wrench Gang," Tim DeChristopher, a University of Utah student, decided he’d had quite enough with what he felt were abuses of power when it came to auctioning off public land to oil and gas concerns. Attending an auction, he ended up being the winning bid for leases to over 22,500 acres of prime public land near Moab. But now he needs help.
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Feb 18, 2010
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Aug 14, 2009
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Oct 29, 2009
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