OEcotextiles

Indulgent yet responsible fabrics

50th Anniversary of SILENT SPRING

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

I just read the article by Lynne Peeples in Huffington Post Green, entitled “Chemistry Lessons:  Living with Rachel Carson’s Legacy” which caught my eye because I’ve been reading about Merchants of Doubt, the new book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, in which they conclude that the far right in America, in its quest to …

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What are endocrine disruptors?

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

Many chemicals used in textile processing – and elsewhere in consumer products – have been identified as “endocrine disruptors”.  I never paid too much attention to “endocrine disruptors” because it didn’t sound too dire to me – I preferred to stick to something like “carcinogens” because I knew those caused cancer.   I knew that endocrine …

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