• India’s first certified fully compostable sanitary napkin

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  • The friendly search engine that plants trees.

    Ecosia is a nifty search engine was designed with ecology in mind and claims having planted 160 million trees on this date [datetoday]. The company was founded


    Volunteers for The Jane Goddall Foundation in Uganda preserving the forest corridor planted with Ecosia donated funds

    The Founder Christian Kroll , started this company after he visited India and Asia.It was during his stay in Nepal that he had the idea to start a local search engine that would help to generate revenue for the local NGO projects . With only 4 hours of electricity per day . After having to leave this idea on hold, he moved to Argentina , where he learnt about reforestation in the rainforest. After reading a book from Thomas L. Freidman titled “Hot, Flat and Crowded”, he learnt about the relationship between Globalization and climate change . It was in 2009 that his idea of Ecosia was born and moved to Berlin where he joined his forces with Tim Schumacher .

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  • Dressing with nettles is an idea that does not lack spice. This project is that of Velcorex-Matières Françaises, an Alsatian group from France that owns several textile companies. This weed could revolutionize the fabric industry. Requiring little water, pesticides or maintenance, it creates a piece of fabric as strong and as ecological.

    ‘Nettle is the new cotton’ and there is no doubt for this Alsatian textile group that presented its first clothes 100% nettle eco-friendly.

    Dressing with nettles is an idea that does not lack spice. This project is that of Velcorex-Matières Françaises, an Alsatian group that owns several textile companies. This weed could revolutionize the fabric industry. Requiring little water, pesticides or maintenance, it creates a fabric as strong as ecological.

    Used to offer luxurious fabrics such as velvet and silk for high-end brands, Velcorex-Matières has decided to invest in its future and that of the environment with its own brand of 100% nettle clothing. Denim jackets and trousers, the brand puts on the timeless to start.

    But using this plant, which is wrongly considered a weed, is actually not new. Before the arrival of cotton, nettle, just like hemp and flax, was commonly used to make fabric. The French brand wants to put clothes made of nettles up to date. Pierre Schmitt, his boss, explains their approach:

    ‘Today to make cotton jeans, you need between 5,000 and 10,000 liters of water. I think most people do not realize it. According to specialists, between 30 and 50% of the pesticides on the planet are used for growing cotton. ‘

    The brand took advantage of Salon Première Vision to present its first 100% nettle pants. And contrary to what one might think, the fabric does not sting, since it is the stems and not the leaves that are used during its manufacture. But before seeing a mass production of these eco-friendly trousers, we still need to find nettle producers and recreate the trades of transformation of the plant into cloth. Anyway, Pierre Schmitt is very optimistic, as he plans to market his first clothes in nettle next year.

    After the t-shirts in hemp, or in plastic bottles, nettle fabric: the proof, if it were necessary, that the fashion industry is beginning to realize the importance of reviewing its production methods.

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