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JUNE 5, 2023
That company is Maya’s Ideas—a sustainable fashion brand Penn started by upcycling old clothing and recycled materials to make tops, hats, scarves and neck warmers. Maya’s Ideas uses organic, recycled and vintage materials to create clothing and accessories. Environmental racism is a systemic issue. Photo courtesy of Maya Penn.
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NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Although Jamaica has an excellent education system, it’s still a third-world country with a third-world economy, Kelly says. I’ve seen everyone in my family do entrepreneurial things, whether it was reselling clothes they bought in the U.S., In 2013, while building his sales career, a friend of Kelly’s introduced him to podcasting.
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APRIL 3, 2023
You’ll outgrow it like your baby clothes, and then you have a choice to either try to contort yourself back into it or to leave.” And while he agrees you don’t necessarily have to quit your job to do it, he suggests that, “It’s time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map.”
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MARCH 14, 2024
Of all the things we buy, with the exception of our clothes, furniture is the most intimate, the one item we spend most time in contact with. Back in the mid Nineties, the proportionate cost of a typical workstation would consist of about three-quarters systems furniture and other products and about one quarter seating.
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MAY 25, 2022
As a teenager, Finley’s clothes never fit right, and he could not unsee how fashion specifically was not available in shapes and sizes inclusive of people of color. I wanted my clothes to fit so well they’d levitate,” Finley says. It’s freedom from depending on a store, a delivery app, a broken food system.
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APRIL 4, 2012
Recently the Northface clothing company, a high end organization of outerwear was singled out by one of the humane organizations for purchasing and using duck down for their coats and vests that had been purchased from a company who participated in the especially cruel practice of raising ducks for foie gras.
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