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...Drexler has one. He has rebranded J. Crew as a store that sells basics like tank tops and Capris but also dares to inch up the food chain of craftsmanship (think cashmere sweaters), avoiding the race to the bottom by refusing to woo price-conscious consumers and sell ever cheaper clothes made with ever cheaper labor--a trend driven by discounters like Wal-Mart and Kohl's that has rippled to specialty shops. He has also taken away the fashion-by-engineering ethic that made J. Crew predictably boring...
...energy sources would be clean and renewable,” she enthuses. “All organic waste would be composted and reused on site. All landscaping would be organic and native, there would be a green roof, you’d have students and faculty alike all conscious and conscientious about being conservative with resource use, and you’d have organic food being served in dining halls...
...architecture graduate student Kevin M. Moore holds art workshops that work on incorporating a “diversity of media,” including recycled content. He is quick to point out that garbage art can be judged solely on its artistic merits, independent of any environmentally conscious message it might send...
...milk. Raw, unpasteurized milk. To supply a small but growing market among health-conscious city and suburban dwellers for milk taken straight from the udder, Hebron was dealing the stuff on behalf of a farming cooperative he runs in southwestern Michigan. An undercover agricultural investigator had infiltrated the co-op as part of a sting operation that resulted in the seizure of $7,000 worth of fresh-food items, including 35 lbs. of raw butter, 29 qt. of cream and all those gallons of the suspicious white liquid. Although Hebron's home office was searched and his computer seized...
...Harvard was a main focus. “The KA board has been actively discussing how other organizations on campus view us as exclusive,” said William Cho ’08, the organization’s educational/political chair. “We’re self-conscious of that fact, but there’s a lack of action taken.” Cho proposed the idea of an e-mail list for multiple cultural organization board members to remedy that segregation, generating an overwhelmingly positive response from the attendees. “If we?...