Your organic cotton T-shirt poisons rivers

Your organic cotton tee-shirt probably poisoned a river in Asia

by Carolyn Higgins – Oct 8, 2015

Dyed yarn hanging on a fence at the Jubilee Farm in Snoqualmie, part of a class on using natural plant dyes. (Photo by Carolyn Higgins)

Your soft cotton tee shirt is the ultimate warm fuzzy. Snuggling gratefully into its soft fibers, you feel virtuous about buying a product that was made of natural organic materials. Think of all those barrels of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers that weren’t sprayed on foreign cotton fields thanks to you. Think of the smiling cotton farmers in Turkey and India growing those pure white organic tufts for you to snuggle into.

Sigh.

Bet you a tidy sum that the label boasting of organic fiber on that shirt says nothing about the luscious color. And for good reason.

Elections: Rivalry should be civil

Halifax neighbours duel it out with decorated election signs

Floodlights, flags and blinking Christmas lights deployed in friendly political rivalry

By Elizabeth McMillan, CBC News Posted: Oct 08, 2015 11:58 AM AT Last Updated: Oct 08, 2015 12:01 PM AT

Two neighbours on Tower Road in Halifax have jazzed up their election signs in a friendly political rivalry. (Submitted by Malcolm Norton and Allan Robertson)

The long election campaign is sparking some creative responses from a set of Halifax neighbours who are trying to make sure their signs don’t fade into the background.