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Lessons in Life: Reflections from the Lifestyles of Health & Sustainability...
Lessons in Life: Reflections from the Lifestyles of Health & Sustainability (LOHAS) Conference As faculty, staff and students from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) prepare for the...
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Illuminated Fluidity
Illuminated Fluidity On April 12, 2011, the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) opened the flood gates of sustainability during its 5th Annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference. Motivated...
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Rhythmic Diffusion
Rhythmic Diffusion Recently, Green America and Global Exchange hosted the Chicago 2011 Green Festival and thousands of attendees turned out to meet hundreds of innovative exhibitors and dozens of...
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Forward Osmosis
Forward Osmosis A vital lesson that resurfaced during the past two sustainability conferences, which I recently attended (Opportunity Green 2011 in Los Angeles and the 2011 LOHAS Forum in Boulder,...
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Trail Guides
Trail Guides While visiting Nevada to attend this year’s MAGIC Marketplace tradeshow and conference, I had the privilege of touring the Valley of Fire State Park. Navigating through the Mojave...
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Invitation to attend Special Guest Lecture Panel on “Global Sustainable...
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Thinking Sustainably
Thinking Sustainably At this year’s Sustainable Brands and South by Southwest Eco Conferences, speakers shared their words of wisdom on how society can begin to think sustainably. Imitable...
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Cultivating Paths
Cultivating Paths If you could have a bird’s eye view of Manhattan, you’d probably notice streams of yellow taxis flowing up and down the avenues, crowds of people walking along the streets,...
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FIT Students Visit 2014 NYC Green Festival
FIT Students Visit 2014 NYC Green Festival Last month, I had the pleasure of meeting and educating 15 High School students who registered to take a 4-day “Global Fashion Business” Saturday Workshop at...
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ITM’s Sustainable Global Sourcing Forum
On March 24, 2015, over 150 attendees participated in the Department of International Trade and Marketing’s Sustainable Global Sourcing Forum! We hosted over 25 speakers, including Fashion Designers,...
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UN Ambassador for the Republic of Korea Hahn Choong-hee Speaks at FIT
On September 26, 2016, UN Ambassador Hahn Choong-hee, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations in New York & Chairperson of the 47th Session of the United...
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ITM’s 2nd Biennial Sustainable Global Sourcing Forum – 2017
On March 21, 2017, the Department of International Trade & Marketing (ITM), Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology, in partnership with faculty from the Departments of Cosmetics...
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2017 African Women’s Entrepreneurial Program (AWEP) Showcase
In July 2017, WorldChicago (www.worldchicago.org) and Meridian (www.meridian.org) hosted 30 African Women Entrepreneurs, who were visiting the U.S. as part of the U.S. Department of State...
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Children’s Rights are Human Rights
Often times when addressing international trade and sustainability issues, various U.N. initiatives and policies, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals...
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Harvesting Prosperity
On March 2, 2019, I attended the National Fair Trade Campaigns Conference in Chicago. Paul Rice, who is the Founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA, presented a Keynote session where he discussed his recent...
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It belongs to Them…let’s give it Back
Some cities across the U.S. are marking the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day. Indigenous People are “inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people...
View ArticleCompassion and Fashion
The following two empirical studies that were published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals address the role that compassion plays in the consumption of Fair Trade fashion. Dr. Shireen Musa was the...
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The following empirical study was published in the Business and Professional Ethics Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, and it builds upon the consumer-based scale development from Dr. Shireen...
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The Importance of Creating a “Mindful Intelligent Leadership” Course and...
This is the first page of the article titled The Importance of Creating a Mindful Intelligent Leadership Course and Integrating Mindfulness into the Sustainability Business Curriculum A Literature...
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The Role of Emotional Imagery Exposure on Fair Trade Consumption and on...
This is the first page of the article titled The Role of Emotional Imagery Exposure on Fair Trade Consumption and on Compassion. To read the full article titled The Role of Emotional Imagery Exposure...
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