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...company's Freedom chair, for example, has 132 parts. A comparable chair from the competition has 275. King is lobbying to bring to his industry the kind of regulation that exists in the food business. He would like to see chairs labeled with sustainability scores based on their content. Humanscale would fare well: about 62% of the material in its Freedom chair is recycled. That's not material that is recyclable (although it's that too) but material that has been recycled...
...with such star athletes as Joe Namath and soccer king Pelé, who led the brand to superstardom in major arenas. Athletes such as Walt Frazier, Oscar de la Hoya, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams followed suit, and Puma further revolutionized the category with the introduction of Velcro fasteners. Not content to stay in the stadium, Puma branched out, marrying sports with fashion in 1998 with a collection of Jil Sander--designed sneakers. Lines for Christy Turlington's Nuala brand followed, as did Evisu's True Love Never Dies jeans and collaborations with Philippe Starck and Alexander McQueen...
...from windfallen trees. The exterior shingle walls of the house conceal Durisol interior concrete forms made of recycled wood chips, insulating material and cement. The hollow cores of the forms are filled with concrete to become walls that resist fire, termites and rot. Even the concrete has a high content of fly ash, a waste by-product from power plants that requires less energy to produce than standard cement. Plus, there was minimal reliance on toxic chemicals in things like adhesives or piping. "Anything that ends in an 'ethylene'?you definitely want that out," says Good. "Also, no chlorines...
...Beauty Academy of Kabul” portraits beauty both in form and content. Under the Taliban, the Afghan women were willing to risk their lives to secretly run beauty salons because they valued beauty whether the public could see their face or not. In the post-Taliban Afghanistan, they are eager to learn makeup application techniques because they see the economic opportunity in the trade...
Video games rated “M” for mature audiences contain sexual content, drug references, and strong language not labeled on the box, according to a recent study by Kimberly M. Thompson, an associate professor of risk analysis and decision science at the Harvard School of Public Health. Thompson has previously completed studies analyzing the content of video games rated “E” for everyone and “T” for teen. Those studies found much higher levels of violence than advertised on the video game box. She has also founded KidsRisk...