Posts Tagged ‘Fair Trade’
Earth Day 2017 | Clothing/Textile Recycling Event
April 22nd, 2017
Saturday, April 22 | 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | InterUrban ArtHouse The U.S. EPA estimates that while the textile recycling industry recycles approximately 3.8 billion pounds of post-consumer textile waste each year, nearly 85% of post-consumer textile wastes still ends up in landfills each year. The EPA estimates that textile waste occupies nearly 5% of all landfill space. This Earth Day, join Johnson County Recycles and Downtown Overland Park merchants as we do our part to reduce the amount of textile waste in area landfills. Clothing and textile recyclables […]
Earth Day 2017 | Local Life Recycling Demo
April 21st, 2017
Did you know that the average American throws away an average of 70 pounds of clothing each year? Stop by the clock tower patio between 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. during April’s Local Life 3rd Friday event to see just how much clothing waste 70 pounds actually is and pick up information about Saturday’s Earth Day clothing and textile recycling event.
Earth Day 2017 | The True Cost
April 20th, 2017
Join us for a FREE screening of The True Cost, a story about the clothes we wear, the people who make them and the impact the clothing industry has on the world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have continued to grow dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who is really paying for the price of our clothing? Ethical fashions will be modeled […]
Celebrate Women’s History Month in #DowntownOP!
March 22nd, 2017
Join us on Facebook during the month of March as we celebrate National Women’s History Month by highlighting many of the amazing and unique women-led businesses found right here in Downtown Overland Park. Starting March 2nd, we’ll feature a different women-owned or women-led business each day! Did you know… Since 2007, there have been 1,072 net new women-owned firms launched each and every day, Between 2007 and 2016, the number of women-owned firms increased at a rate five times higher than the national average, Women-owned businesses now comprise […]