Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7 Polyester was once thought to be a wonder fiber. It turns out the miracle thread made from oil isn’t so recyclable. Enter next-gen synthetics.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Such had been the overall trend since the 1990s, when Walmart began rapidly opening what it dubbed “Supercenters,” and applied the same mantra that fueled its original success in electronics, apparel, and home goods to groceries: the lowest prices, all the time. These initiatives may lead to real change.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

After a job running sales for a hemp apparel company, he lit out for Peru, where he launched Eco Ola, an export business in Amazonian superfoods, with the goal of helping local communities develop sustainable economies from their native forests. But experts say Melka’s enablers would be the first to carry it out on such a large scale.

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