We
are pleased to adress to you the first English edition of our
newsletter. It is meant to provide you with new pieces of information
to learn and share around organic and fair traded textiles. In
the following issue, you will discover:
- an interview carried out to a Southern French distributor.
- the properties of alpaca, a very specific wool
- the newsletter "number" gleaned during our readings
on the internet
Enjoy
Antoinette Giorgi, Rachel Liu
Ideo co-founders
Kulteco’s
project is deeply rooted in the original story of a couple :
Nicolas, a hardened salesman bored with the traditional
fashion sector and Patricia interested in social issues.
She worked for many years as a psychologist motivated by
a strong need to help people. Fair trade imposes itself
as the link between their competences and convictions. >Read more
The French
Indian summer seems to reach its end : cold wind are
already picking at their first victims and blushing our cheekbones
with sweet red. Pull-overs, scarfs, hats and gloves, that
we had meticulously tidied up deep in our closet receive their
patent of nobility , and nobility at Ideo conjugates itself
with Alpaca. > Read more
This
is the the number of power plants used for Google’s
energetic consumption. Indeed the giant of internet research
is quite energyvorous : in order to manage millions and
millions of requests, Google constructed servers « farms ».
45 at least have been numbered all over the planet. The last
one erected occupies the equivalent of two soccer fields and
benefits from the nearness of an hydro electrical dam that
allows its functioning.
