“on tuesday nike unveiled new plans to help mother earth. nike’s new nike considered design plan is to have all apparel, footwear, and sports equipment meet environmentally friendly standards for all footwear come 2011. the same goes for nike apparel by the year 2015, along with equipment by 2020. nike’s agenda is to cut waste of their global footwear supply by 17% and raise the use of environmentally preferred materials by 20%. nike’s mark parker reports to WWD: ‘i see potential for us to be a game changer….this is good for our shareholders, our consumers, and ultimately, our planet.’“ the blog trashbag aesthetics reports on the nike considered campaign and its…
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“…because of its size and influence, any change that nike makes has enormous leverage in the rest of the marketplace. they set the standard that others follow….and implementing considered design into all their footwear, as is projected…will substantially reduce the volume of toxic solvent adhesives that factory workers and waterways have to cope with. nike has also, inadvertently seeded some deeply green companies….not to mention that bill bowerman, co-founder of nike, helped the world’s first environmental footwear company, deja shoe, get up and running.” the nike considered campaign is featured on treehugger.com, an environmentally conscious website. the campaign is called a…