http://cravoazul.com social and green design from Portugal Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:46:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://cravoazul.com/2009/06/galo-is-born/ About 40% of the cotton fiber is already produced from genetically transformed cotton plants. Miss-harvests caused by gen-manipulated cotton and the increased prices for cotton seeds and pesticides have forced thousands of small Indian farmers into suicide. The first insects immune to the manipulations were found and entirely new diseases were ... http://cravoazul.com/2009/05/monsantos-happy-new-cotton/ If you had to guess who or what in your house travelled 50.000 km in a few weeks would you guess it was your t-shirt? Nowerdays  the worldwide distribution of the production steps can cause trips of  50.000 km for one single peace of garment before getting to the consumer. For each ... http://cravoazul.com/2009/05/traveller/ Some facts about conventional cotton production: Cotton production consumes 300 Billion liters of water yearly. That is four times the basic need of water of the world population. Each Saison, the cotton crop is sprayed up to 25 times with pestizides. About 10.000 people die each year from consequences of incidents with pesticides ... http://cravoazul.com/2009/05/organic-cotton/