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    LIVITY LINE OF PRODUCTS:

    WHO IS LIVITY?

    Livity is made up of a multi-cultural crew from Topanga
    Canyon
    California
    that
    has been making functional and stylish products from Sustainable Materials since
    2001. Livity uses Straw, Hemp, Organic Cotton, Bamboo,
    Soy, Recycled Plastic Bottles, and Veggie-Oil-Based Synthetics to create futuristic
    yet classic garments and accessories.

    Livity
    has fun creating inspiration and hope. We seek to create change by using our
    ART as Activism. Livity is helping to start a Positive Creative Revolution.

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    WHY ECO-FASHION?

    1) Conventional clothing is killing our habitat:
    The Textile Industry is one of the most polluting industries on earth, second
    only to the Petrochemical Industry.
    – Refining crude oil into synthetic Nylons materials creates some of the worst
    forms of pollution, the traditional dyes used are loaded
    with heavy metals that are especially harmful to human beings, animals, and
    our habitat. Commercial Cotton is rapidly destroying farm land, and contributing
    to the poisoning of waterways around the world. One commercial cotton T-shirt
    requires over 2 pounds of toxic pesticides be applied to the earth. Due to these
    facts, wearing traditional clothing made using conventional toxic textiles is
    directly related to ecological destruction. The best way to avoid having our
    clothing contribute to an early grave for humankind is to choose sustainable/organic
    alternatives to these toxic traditional materials.

    2) The alternative
    to clothes made from Toxic Textiles can now be found readily available. Sustainable
    garments and accessories are now being made using Organic Cotton, Hemp, Recycled
    Plastics, Bamboo, Soy, Flax, Linen Wool, Silk, and other natural fibers
    .
    The Livity Textile Lab is experimenting constantly
    with both ancient and new emerging fibers to develop the textiles of the future.

    BENEFITS OF HEMP

    Courtesy of
    the Hemp Industries of America.

    For more information please visit www.thehia.org.

    1) Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than
    10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. The Columbia History of the World
    states that the oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating
    back to approximately 8,000 BC.

    2) Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally
    bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic.
    The federal government subsidized hemp during the Second World War and US
    farmers grew a million acres of hemp as part of that program.

    3) Hemp Seed is far more nutritious than even soybeans, contains more essential
    fatty acids than any other source, is second only to soybeans in complete
    protein (but is more digestible by humans), is high in B-vitamins, and is 35%
    dietary fiber. Hemp seed is not psychoactive and cannot be used as a drug. See
    TestPledge.com

    4) The bark of the hemp stalk contains bast fibers
    which are among the Earth’s longest natural soft fibers and are also rich in
    cellulose; the cellulose and hemi-cellulose in its inner woody core are called hurds. Hemp stalk is not psychoactive. Hemp fiber is
    longer, stronger, more absorbent and more insulative
    than cotton fiber.

    5) The Department of Energy states, hemp as a biomass fuel producer requires
    the least specialized growing and processing procedures of all bio-mass fuel
    products. Hemp can be processed into a wide range of biomass energy sources,
    from fuel pellets to liquid fuels and gas. Development of biofuels
    can significantly reduce our consumption of fossil and nuclear fuel.

    6) Hemp grows well without herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides. While cotton
    represents roughly 20% of the world’s crops, it consumes 80% of the worlds pesticides.

    7) Hemp produces more pulp per acre than timber on a sustainable basis, and can
    be used for any quality of paper. Hemp paper can reduce water contamination.
    Hemp reduces the need for acids used in pulping, and it’s
    creamy color lends itself to environmentally friendly bleaching instead of
    harsh chlorine compounds. Less bleaching results in less dioxin and chemical
    byproducts.

    8) Hemp fiber paper resists decomposition, and does not yellow with age when an
    acid-free process is used. Hemp paper more than 1,500 years old has been found.
    It can also be recycled more times.

    9) Hemp fiberboard produced by Washington
    State University

    was found to be twice as strong as wood-based fiberboard.

    10) Eco-friendly hemp can replace most toxic petrochemical products. Research
    is being done in manufacturing biodegradable plastic products: plant-based
    cellophane, plastic for injection-molded products, and resins made from the
    oil, to name just a few.


    USING ORGANIC COTTON:

    Grown with out pesticides organic cotton is a good alternative to conventionally
    grown cotton. Cotton grown with pesticides damages our environment, when fresh
    and new a non-organic cotton tee shirt even leaches its toxins into the unlucky
    wearer.

     

    Why is
    recycling so important?

    Americans comprise only 5% of the worlds population, but we consume 25% of the world’s
    resources.

    In a lifetime, the average American will throw away
    600 times his or her adult weight in garbage. This means that each adult will
    leave a legacy of as much as 100,000 pounds of trash for his or her children.

    Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every
    hour!
    Nationwide, 6% of all discarded plastic was recycled in 2000. 21% of all discarded
    plastic bottles were recycled.
    Environmental
    Benefits of Recycling

    Recycled materials allow
    for the long term use and re-use of our precious and limited natural resources.


    Recycling Saves Energy

    Using energy requires the consumption of non-renewable fossil fuels and involves
    emissions of numerous air and water pollutants. Manufacturing items from recycled
    material uses less energy than making those items from raw natural resources.

    Recycling in the state or Illinois saves enough
    energy each year to provide heat and light for 400,000 Illinois homes.


    Recycling Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    in three ways:

    Reducing emissions
    from energy consumption.
    Manufacturing goods from recycled materials
    requires less energy than producing goods from virgin materials. When less energy
    is needed, fewer fossil fuels are burned and less carbon dioxide is emitted
    to the atmosphere.

    Reducing methane emissions
    from landfills.
    By diverting organic materials from landfills, we reduce
    the methane released when these materials decompose.

    Increasing
    storage of carbon in trees.
    Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
    and store it in wood, in a process called Acarbon
    sequestration@. Waste prevention and recycling of paper products allow more
    trees to remain standing in the forest.


    Recycling
    Reduces Emissions of Air and Water Pollutants

    Recycling produces less of 27 different types of pollutants, when compared with
    using virgin materials, in manufacturing products and disposing wastes.


    Recycling Conserves Natural Resources

    Recycling
    reduces the need for landfills, allowing local lands to be used in more environmentally
    preferable ways. And, by substituting scrap materials for the use of trees,
    metal ores, minerals, oil, and other virgin materials, recycling reduces the
    pressure to expand forestry and mining production.