Mode Met een Missie (Fashion with a Mission) opens first store

Mode Met een Missie (MMM) the organisation that offers women who are facing hard times in their lives, a job in special fashion ateliers, opens its first store on June 12th, in Arnhem.

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Ecofabulous Fashion Party: hip and sustainable are a great match!

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Sign up for Traineeship 'World Improver' in October

This is not a regular trainee ship, but a traineeship for those who seriously want to change the world.

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Full attention for 'green' labels at Premium Berlin

During the Berlin trade show Premium next January, 'green fashion' will get extra attention. The trade event presents the most important green labels for season autumn/winter 2009/2010. Check the website for the full program.

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Win $1000 with a film about CSR!

Do you have a CSR-related story to tell? Tell it to a wider audience, share it with a lot of people and contribute to a better world. Go to the site of CSRtube, sign up and upload your film about CSR before December 31st 2008.

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Design a fashion item and win a trip to Cape Town with Urban Challenge

The Urban Challenge is a contest for students in the Netherlands and South Africa, organized by Cordaid. You are challenged to solve a real life problem in a specific slum in South Africa. Fashion students can sign up for the project Fashion & Jewellery Design and win a 10-day trip to Cape Town!

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Publication new book Beyond Green

On November 12th, at the symposium Beyond Green II in the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam, the book Beyond Green - Sustainability & Fashion will be launched.

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Stay updated with newsletters from Eco Textile, Het is groen en het... and P+.

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Hip accessories from the Swiss mountains

About fifty years ago, Titus Karlen started his career as a shoemaker, in a village somewhere in the Swiss mountains. Nowadays he designs with his companion Walter Maurer bags and accessories, made from (never used) military blankets.

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Real life soap about sweat shops

June 2008 - BBC 3 just started broadcasting a new series named 'Blood, Sweat and T-shirts'. Six young fashion addicts experience life as factory workers in India, making clothes for the British high street.

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