Rural Press | The Land | DANNIKA BONSER 16 September 2013 INTERNATIONAL Wool Textile Organisation president Peter Ackroyd has updated the Australian industry on the Campaign For Wool, a cross-industry initiative set in motion by Prince Charles in 2010. Since becoming president of the IWTO two years ago, Mr Ackroyd said he had made it [...]
theguardian | Jonah Sachs | Friday 16 August 2013 Gone are the days when brands could just broadcast their message and reach their audience. They need a good story to break through. In today's wildly evolving media landscape, audiences are gaining more and more control over the information they view and share. Now, more than [...]
Alan Savory Rural Press -The Land | Matthew Cawood | June 22, 2013 ALLAN Savory estimates that his ideas are used across about 15 million hectares of the world’s grasslands, but until recently his audience was relatively small, albeit dedicated. Three months ago, all that changed in about 20 minutes [...]
Stock Journal | Rural Press Matthew Cawood | March 7, 2013 Professor Mark Adams THE big themes of agriculture - water, food and carbon - will for the first time be tackled as a set of interconnected issues in a new University of Sydney initiative. Dean of the university's Faculty of Agriculture [...]
Ecotextile News |Wednesday, 02 January 2013 LONDON – The growing power of social media could have dire consequences for clothing brands that continue to flout environmental laws, creating a major headache for shareholders and investors according to Ecotextile News contributor Pamela Ravasio, who says other NGO’s are set to follow Greenpeace’s example and target the [...]
Rural Press | Stock Journal | January 3, 2012 ON-FARM data collection of carbon stocks on woolgrowing properties will unlock productivity gains and help inform ways that growers can be recognised for storing carbon. Research by Australian Wool Innovation is collecting data as part of a carbon audit of two major Merino production systems – [...]
Stock Journal |Deanna Lush | January 3, 2013 'Green’ wool a priority PROVING the environmental credentials of wool will be one of Australian Wool Innovation’s top priorities in 2013. AWI group manager of market intelligence and reporting Paul Swan said key projects would focus on collecting the hard data required to prove wool was as [...]
Stock Journal | BY DEANNA LUSH | 16 Jul, 2012 LIVESTOCK farmers are being urged to reclaim the moral high ground in the animal welfare debate by understanding that values – not science – drive the public’s perception of agricultural practices. United States Center for Food Integrity chief executive Charlie Arnot said values were the [...]
The Land | BY COLIN BETTLES | 20 Jul, 2012 Australian agriculture could soon benefit from having a local branch of the highly successful US Center for Food Integrity (CFI). CFI chief Charlie Arnot outlined plans to establish a similar model in Australia during an address to leading Australian farming organisations at the National Farmers’ [...]
Weekly Times | Brian Clancy September 5 2011 Todd Copeland of Patagonia WOOL is helping a leading American outdoor apparel retailer defy the downturn in the US economy. "The downturn has affected all apparel retailers, although outdoor sales are less affected," said Todd Copeland, of Californian outdoor and sportswear retailer Patagonia. "With [...]
