While reporting on the phenomenon of T-shirts originating in the U.S. and winding up in Africa, NPR "Planet Money" recently turned up a Bat Mitzvah T-Shirt in Nairobi and asked for help tracking down the owner. What we Know: Jennifer's Bat Mitzvah was on November 20, 1993. The theme may have been cartoons.
Jeff Steinberg had a maroon and white lacrosse jersey that he wore for years. It said "Denver Lacrosse" on the front and had his number, 5, on the back. Then, one day, he cleaned out his closet and took the shirt to a Goodwill store in Miami.
How We Did This Why A T-Shirt? We wanted to see the hidden world behind clothes sold in this country, so we decided to make a T-shirt. We wanted to make an ordinary shirt like the vast majority of the shirts sold in this country - not organic cotton, not hand-sewn in the United States.
It's summer again. Time to pack away all those heavy wool sweaters and pull out your t-shirts. We all have our favorites. We all probably have a lot of them, in fact; piled in the closet, jammed in the bottom of drawers, emblazoned with logos from sporting events and fundraisers, commemorating concerts or special events.
shop/ life cycle of your t-shirt Most of us buy products without thinking about where they are from. But if you are an environmentally conscious consumer, you also think about the impact of a product all across its life, or the "lifecycle."
AP Bio Carbon foot print project. The life cycle of a t-shirt and the co2 emissions from production, to transportation, to purchase, to the appliances maintaining the t-shirt.
Cotton's Journey-A Field Trip in A Box - The only cotton education site for classroom teachers providing curriculum, literature resources, links to cotton and educational organizations promoting the importance of this crop, and the story of cotton-from seed to you.
A variety of educational materials that present the story of cotton - from its history to its wide usage to its economic impact. The materials we offer are useful as teaching aids or as guides to learn more about one of the world's major agricultural commodities.
Students at Agassiz Elementary School in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood are getting a head start on celebrating Earth Day by demonstrating the need to keep ...
