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...parents, who like many educated Indians had supported Mohandas Gandhi's struggle against colonialism, insisted on wearing clothing made only of homespun cotton. One day Vandana, having returned from a boarding school to her home in the Himalayan foothill town of Dehra Dun, demanded a nylon dress, the fashion adopted by her rich friends. Her mother, a teacher turned farmer, agreed. "If that is what you want, of course you shall have it," she said. "But remember, your nylon frock will help a rich man buy a bigger car. And the cotton that you wear will buy a poor family...
...ideas are taking root worldwide. BASF Corp.'s carpet-fiber unit has developed a recyclable nylon that makes it possible to reconstitute old carpets into new. Swiss semiconductor maker ST Microelectronics has saved more than $60 million by cutting its energy usage and more than $20 million by reducing water consumption below baselines set in 1994--a program initiated after CEO Pasquale Pistorio's son Carmelo questioned his father's environmental stewardship. The company issued a "decalogue"--or 10 commandments--of environmental goals and empowered its divisions to become creative. The responses include using solar power and finding ways...
...trouble. Pushing 40, Andrew was wondering what to do with himself when local entrepreneurs suggested hemp. Products have been made from the versatile plant for thousands of years. Early American planters grew it widely; George Washington sowed it on four of his farms. But the cotton gin--and later nylon--all but killed the industry. Beginning in the late 1980s, hemp products enjoyed a renaissance, at first as novelty items for liberals. Greens love hemp because it's a renewable resource and an effective rotation crop that requires little or no herbicide. Nutritionists and vegetarians found that hemp...
Hate ironing? A fashion house in Florence, Italy, has developed a wrinkle-free shirt that also makes a distinctive fashion statement. The sheer, silver-hued Oricalco is made of titanium-alloy fibers interwoven with nylon. Just toss the shirt (shown here wrinkled on one side) in your suitcase before a trip, then take it out and blow it with your hair dryer to dissolve the creases. (A second version rolls up its own sleeves on hot days to save you the trouble...
...that the title of NEST was settled upon. “It wasn’t until we got the title that the look of the project really came together,” says Bastian. And a nest is exactly what the project will look like. A series of nylon ropes will be suspended from a bolt in the roof of the Holyoke Center, and from these ropes, a bed or “nest” of woven screen and rope will be hung. This nest will contain large-scale models of objects found in homes, such as watches...