July 2008 has been a month of important fine tunings, clarifications, and dialogue regarding organic textile standards and environmental marketing claims. We will be discussing, the Version 2.0 of the Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS), the Federal Trade Commission’s 3rd workshop, and the very interesting timing of a new NOP fact sheet “Labeling of Textiles Under […]

In 1992, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published “Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims”, commonly known as the Green Guides. They were subsequently updated in 1996 and in 1998. 
The aim of the “Green Guides” is to help marketers avoid making deceptive or unsubstantiated, and thus unfair, environmental claims. Toward this goal, the Green Guides gives “the […]

We applaud the new Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS). After 6 years of collaboration and hard work, the International Working Group on Global Organic Textile Standard (comprised of 4 leading organic textile standard organizations*), has transformed itself, unequivocally, into the foremost organic textile processing standard.
“The aim of the standard,” according to GOTS, “is to define […]

I apologize that Zac and I have not been blogging since we opened our own sewing facility. As you can well imagine, that added element has taken up much of our time.
Zac, my husband, has also had repeated instances of downtime in regards to his neurological illness. I am also happy to say that in between he has had many up times […]