Posts tagged environment
Is Your T-Shirt Poisoning the Planet?
Nov 10th
You probably didn’t know it but the t-shirt you’re wearing right now likely took a devastating toll on the environment.
To create one t-shirt made from conventionally grown cotton, 1/3 pound of agrochemicals is poured into the Earth. It may also have been created in a sweatshop with subpar working conditions and printed with PVC (nasty plastic) based inks. Feeling guilty? Well, you can’t change if you don’t know, and now you know. Just think about it the next time you’re ready to buy clothing and make an easy choice to help change our planet. Holy Cow clothing is sweatshop free, printed with water-based inks and keeps these nasty chemicals out of our planet and out of your clothing. Cheers to that!
Some cotton with your chemicals?
Oct 25th
This stat blew us away. Let’s look at this. Just say the population of St. Louis Park, our hometown, instead chose a tee made from organic cotton. Those 44,000 people could help prevent almost 15,000 pounds of agrochemicals from being released into our environment. Something to think about. For more, check out this note on the organic fabric of our lives and our growing line of pesticide-free men’s and women’s tees.
startling facts
Nov 27th
- Farmers in the U.S. apply one third of a pound of chemical fertilizers and pesticides for every pound of cotton harvested
- Cotton crops account for 25% of all pesticides used in the U.S. Some among the most toxic classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Perspective. Just 2.4% of the world’s arable land is planted with cotton, yet it accounts for 24% of the world’s insesticide market and 11% of global pesticides sales, making it the most pesticide-intensive crop grown on the planet.
- At least 3 Million people are poisoned by pesticides every year and 20-40,000 more are killed
- Over 1 Million Americans will learn they have some form of cancer and 10,400 people in the U.S. die each year from cancer related to pesticides
