Saturday, May 30, 2009

The New Clothing Label

Instead of the generic and wildly unhelpful: ¨Made In Indonesia¨ or ¨Assembled in the USA¨, let´s propose a first step towards pricing externalities into the system by having more complete labels.

A shirt could have the following new label:

-100% Organic Cotton (No chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, or genetically modified seeds were used) farmed near Baton Rouge, Louisiana using annual crop rotation.
-Picked by machine using biofuel from switchgrass, also farmed on-site.
-Cotton shipped to a Carenco, Louisiana textile factory by rail.
-Patterned and sewn by workers paid a living wage. Only natural plant dyes were used.
-Buy Local: Recommended Retailers in Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, and Texas.

4 comments:

ButterPeanut said...

agreed!

::athada:: said...

*Outbid African farmers with help from tax payer-funded subsidy.

oops...

Sarah said...

speak it friend!

Brent Anderson said...

Adam-I wondered about that...should we include capital, tax breaks, or subsidies on the label.

What do you think?