Shoppers flock to Ohio village for all-natural furniture
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- Shoppers flock to Ohio village for all-natural furniture
- Hong Kong, chameleon colony
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Shoppers flock to Ohio village for all-natural furniture
Columbus Dispatch – Jun 17, 2007
A Natural Home is sandwiched between a coffeehouse and a kitsch shop in Fredericktown, a village 50 miles north of Columbus that isn’t exactly a bastion of environmental values. jpg_06-17-07_A1_A86VKFO. The store sells eco-friendly furniture… But the government does not yet regulate the processing of fabric, including use of dyes and finishes. Fabric can be labeled natural because it uses earth-friendly dyes but might not not be organic. Likewise, textiles can be organically grown but treated with synthetic dyes and flame retardants. The Organic Trade Association has established voluntary guidelines for processing textiles. Other parts of the furniture such as wood and latex are largely unregulated as well. Not all mattresses claiming to have natural rubber are indeed natural. Ask whether the rubber is derived 100 percent from the sap of rubber trees.
Hong Kong, chameleon colony
Guardian Unlimited – Jun 17, 2007
Tung, scion of a famous shipping family, led Hong Kong into a flurry of state-backed projects, including the world’s only nationalised Disneyland theme park, a clutch of high-tech schemes and even hotels. It plunged into the stock market and the property market, and acquired the annoying habit of telling citizens how to behave. This appears to be a home-grown phenomenon, arising out of a self- confident civil service combining bureaucratic and political functions. Tung’s particular obsession was micro-management, thinking he could run Hong Kong in the autocratic manner that he ran his shipping company. He went too far and provoked mass protests in 2003 when trying to introduce a repressive anti-subversion law that would have damaged civil liberties. The protests triggered the least predictable but most impressive development of the past 10 years – the blossoming of civil society organisations. It is hard to say whether this would have happened regardless of Tung’s ineptitude or whether it is a natural consequence of the end of a state of transience.
The Providence Journal, RI, John Kostrzewa column.
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Wide open to abuse
Pakistan Dawn – Jun 17, 2007
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