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Rachel Ceruti Is Curbing Environmental Waste By Upcycling Clothes

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Growing up, Rachel Ceruti had an appreciation for the environment, but she didn’t consider herself an environmentalist nor had she started upcycling clothes. While she was there, she learned about how secondhand clothing is shipped to Africa and then ends up in landfills. “We What is upcycled clothing?

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Can Dopamine Dressing Make You Better At Your Job?

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A 2012 study published by the University of Hertfordshire Press links “how clothing and mood don’t just influence others, it reflects and influences the wearer’s mood, too.” This is an extreme form and thankfully, not the only way to do it. Then select clothing according to how you feel or how you want to feel.

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What Not to Wear to an Interview

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Do dress to look your best… Whatever the clothing culture , nothing says success like maintaining your wardrobe. Run an iron over your clothes, polish your shoes and give yourself the once-over in the mirror to check for lint, fur or sticky kid fingerprints so you’re sure to put your best foot forward. but don’t dress sexy!

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Modern Homesteading and the Trend Towards Greater Independence

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The trend towards desiring greater levels independence - and the autonomy, control and flexibility that comes with it - takes many forms.    Modern homesteading is an edge community that has formed, in large part, around the desire for greater independence. But there are other aspects to this trend.

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Why Supporting Small Businesses This Holiday Season Is More Urgent Than Ever

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And thus in 2014, mumi was formed. The brand provides items to stay organized at home, school, the office or when traveling, including its cornerstone packing cubes ($49.90) to optimize your luggage space, and divider cubes ($19 – $23) to organize drawers of clothes and accessories—and 100% guaranteed to spark joy. Richer Poorer.

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Living Buildings Are On The Way — The Future Office Will Breathe, Digest And Grow

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The idea was to think outside of existing construction conventions to imagine a space that could form part of nature’s ecosystem. They proposed that the structure of the living building be formed by enabling native trees to grow over a CNC (computer designed) plywood scaffold.

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10 Trailblazing Women Paving the Way for a Better Future

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—her mother Laura Hendricks, cancer survivor and nonprofit co-founder of Luminaries Photo courtesy of Laura Hendricks Hendricks survived acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive form of blood cancer. Impact : As a plus-size woman, Alexander understands the common struggle of finding clothing that fits and inspires confidence.

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