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Ecotextile News reports on the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India -an area troubled by its farmer suicide problem – and the tribal area of Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh. For those of you not aware that watchdogs are necessary, you need only read on.

According to Coral Rose, founder of Eco-Innovations, companies like Designs LLC, (doing business as Jonäno), CSE, Inc. (d/b/a Mad Mod) and Pure Bamboo, LLC are guilty of deceptively labeling and advertising their products as made of bamboo fiber when …

Tags: bamboo fiber , Coral Rose , Eco Innovations , Ecotextile News , GOTs Certification , green claims , india , Maharashtra , organic cotton , pesticide , Suicide farmers , sustainable manufacturing , Zameen Organic

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Ever want to just pack up and move…your country?

If you haven’t heard by now, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives insists buying a new homeland may be the only option for the 300,000 islanders who selected him last year as the country’s first democratically-elected leader.

That’s because nightmarish climate change could drown the emerald chain of 1,200 islands and 26 coral atolls that make up the territory located 435 miles southwest of Sri Lanka in the Laccadine Sea of the Indian Ocean.

Location, location, location.

Yes, that’s the draw to this …

Tags: battery banks , carbon neutral , Chris Goodall , climate change , global warming , india , President Mohammed Nasheed , solar panels , the Maldives , Tom Cruise , wind turbines

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“Nano” was the greeting from the beloved TV alien Mork from planet Ork. It’s also the name of the $2,050 car just introduced into the market by Tata Motors of India – a vehicle said to make the concept of owning a car less alien to the poor people on our own planet. Guess the poor are expected to drive as they eat with a premium on fast and cheap and a disregard for health and safety.

According to the Times of India, the Chairman of Tata Group, …

Tags: cars , india , Israel electric car , Nano , news , recession , Tata

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An outraged India is taking action to prevent more of Mahatma Gandhi’s belongings being auctioned off abroad after a handful of meager possessions sold for $1.8 million to an Indian liquor and airline magnate.

The precious items – steel-framed spectacles, a pair of sandals, a bowl, a plate and a pocket watch – went on the block at Antiquorum Auctioneers in Manhattan on Thursday, despite a public outcry. The auction had led to uproar in India, with one minister calling it “gross commercialization”.

That outcry prompted the seller, L.A. filmmaker …

Tags: Alison Kelly , auctions , Forbes richest , Gandhi , hunger strikes , india , news

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Plastic bags are the curse of modern society. Made from petroleum or natural gas based products, they can take up to a hundred years and more to decompose. Meanwhile, they become serial killers, clogging drains and waterways, and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of birds and marine animals who become entangled in or eat the plastic bags.

Plastic bags, however, have also become the icon of convenience shopping and trying to pry this icon from a shopper’s grasp is one of the major issues confronting officials and politicians around …

Tags: delhi , india , plastic bag ban , plastic bags

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