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An Important Event: How to Develop a Civic Personality, with Ralph Nader
Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader will host an online event to raise money for the Thinkwell Institute, in memory of Ralph’s grand niece, a public health activist, who was killed in the 2019 Boeing plane crash.
The latest solution to food waste: Clothing made from pineapple leaves
Companies within the fashion industry are using excess food in the production of their textiles to help address food waste.
48,000+ petition signatures delivered to Columbia Sportswear to get PFAS out of outdoor gear
Speakers at the event discussed how this harmful family of chemicals impacts human health and the environment, ways other brands have phased out PFAS from their supply chains and what consumers can do to protect themselves.
Advocacy groups, 48,000 petitioners demand Columbia Sportswear stop using toxic PFAS chemicals in clothing
U.S. PIRG Education Fund and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) hosted a media conference outside Columbia Sportswear’s flagship store in downtown Portland on Thursday to deliver a petition, with more than 48,000 signatures, urging the clothing manufacturer and retailer to phase out the use of PFAS chemicals in their products.
Advocates at Outdoor Retailer call on companies to phase out toxic ‘forever chemicals’
Ahead of the Outdoor Retailer Summer trade show, public interest and environmental groups hosted a media conference on Wednesday to call on the outdoor industry to phase out toxic PFAS chemicals from their products and supply chains.