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Oscar Gets His Green On
Sustainable Fashion hits a tipping point in L.A.
Little gold Oscar wore a big green tux Sunday at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Early in the ceremony, the Academy trotted out former bad boy Leonardo DiCaprio to pimp the Oscar's green cred before later handing Al Gore's climate change epic An Inconvenient Truth the prize for best documentary.
It's one more sign that if it ain't easy being green, at least it's fashionable.
Exhibit A, the current issues of Domino and Fashion magazines. Both feature features on sustainable fashion. The latter boasts: "It's fabulous being green."
Exhibit B, the surprise witness: The National Post. Canada's vanguard champion of eco journalism jumps on the ethical fashion bandwagon with a big weekend feature.
Exhibit C, the cold files: GladRags. Nearly a full year before Oscar got his green on, The Tyee's Dorothy Woodend and Vanessa Richmond, inspired by the 100-Mile Diet, set out to find an ethical path to snazzy threads. The two pledged to wear locally designed and made clothes for an entire year. They soon discovered, however, that even local clothes have usually crossed the globe several times. What matters more is whether the fabric itself is sustainable. Woodend turned her mission into a hunt for recycled (used and vintage) clothes. And Richmond focused on finding affordable sustainable-fabric basics like organic jeans. ![[Tyee]](http://thetyee.cachefly.net/ui/img/ico_fishie.png){kind=small}
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clubofrome
5 years ago
Homework
Somebody looks to have done their homework!
This will not compute with the likes of maestro who will continue to bash and trash. Pointing to the eco friendly as idealists without substance and yet he swallows every lure from the power agenda, and then just repeats his masters orders here. What a buffoon.
From the web...
An obscure conservative group? I’ll say. Contributions to the Tennessee Research Center totaled $104,980 in 2005, according to its one and only 990 available online at the Foundation Center’s 990 Finder.
The Center lists a post office box number as its address which makes sense since occupancy costs were $450 for the year.
The IRS requires 501(c)(3)s to disclose the names of board members and officers which the Research Center fails to do. The 990 is signed by Jason A. Johnson who presumably is related to Drew Johnson who is listed as the Research Center’s president on the website.
Total salary expense for 2005 is $52,213. Despite a tight budget, the Research Center managed to spend $8,155 on meals and travel. Marketing expense is $5,934 but no money was spent on research.
$98,870 of the Research Center’s funding came from indirect public support which means another organization provided funding. Maybe Drew Johnson, Tennesee Research Center president, could provide that information. Perhaps Mr. Johnson could tell us, too, if anyone involved in the Tennessee Research Center actually lives in Tennessee.
The Tennessee Research Center is not an obscure conservative group. It is a faux conservative group specifically set up to send out inflammatory press releases like the one about Al Gore’s electricity bills. Why the Tennesse Research Center is entitled to tax-exempt status is beyond me.