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Worried about carbon footprint? Indian start-up’s ‘recycled’ shoes may put your mind at ease

26Dec

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Worried about carbon footprint? Indian start-up’s ‘recycled’ shoes may put your mind at ease

Gurugram/Jalandhar: This one is for those worried about their carbon footprint, quite literally. You can now buy a pair of sneakers, that manufacturers claim are made entirely of recycled waste. The price of $129.90 (Rs 9,757), will no doubt seem steep for the average shopper, but for the environmentally woke, it will be a small price to pay for an item the production of which has traditionally been a major source of solid waste production. According to an article published in 2014, an average pair of shoes take about 50 years to completely decompose. A paper published in 2020 estimated that globally, Skechers Womens Outlet about 21 million shoes are manufactured annually. “This creates a humungous amount of waste generation from footwear and leather sectors. The maximum percentage of foo...

26Dec

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Making a difference, one SOLE at a time

LEXINGTON, S.C. (WIS) - SOLE Stepping, a nonprofit organization that provides new shoes and socks to elementary school students, is making a difference in childrens’ lives one sole at a time. It began in 2016 when mother and founder of SOLE Stepping, Kara Jefferson, had some extra shoes and noticed a need in her community. “She took this idea of putting shoes on kids’ feet and it’s turned into this project of not just connecting community people, but allow us all to experience just how Hey Dude Women's Shoes awesome it is to be able to give,” said Elizabeth Keisler, a volunteer of four years for SOLE Stepping. One day, Keisler’s children came home with new shoes. That’s when she stepped in to help. “The fact that there were just kind people out there doing things for other people just ...

26Dec

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In My Own Shoes: Begging to burn the midnight oil

I wanted to be a big girl. I yearned to be a big girl. I knew I could do it like a big girl, but every year my parents wouldn’t let me. All I wanted to do was stay up until midnight on New Year’s Eve like the big kids and grownups did. I longed to see that beautiful, bejeweled ball slide slowly down into Times Square announcing the new year, watching the throngs hug and kiss and blow horns while a veritable mountain of confetti rained down upon them. That’s really all I wanted, but my parents thought better of it. Still, I knew I could prove them wrong. I knew I could do it. “Just give me a chance,” I wailed each year, “and I’ll stay up! I can do it. I can make it till midnight.” So somewhere around my 11th or 12th birthday they let me win the annual argument. This would be the year,...

26Dec

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Why these Christmas kicks represent much more than a new pair of shoes

RICHMOND, Va. -- A special Christmas gift for more than 100 people in our community who are trying to get their lives back on track. "Today we'll put 130 pairs of shoes on the men and women here at Caritas," Robin Telfian said. "We basically set up mini shoe stores." Telfian founded Shood, a Richmond-area non-profit that provides sneakers to people in need. "Having a pair of shoes is just a part of dignity, and everyone deserves a great pair of shoes," she said. Shood partnered with Caritas this Christmas. WTVR Caritas is a center that serves those struggling with addiction or homelessness. Their combined goal was to bring dignity to people Hoka Shoes who need some holiday hope. "I'm an old ex-Navy guy, so my feet have a lot of corns and bunions on them," Raymond ...

The NBA’s greatest Christmas Day signature shoes, ranked

26Dec

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The NBA’s greatest Christmas Day signature shoes, ranked

Kobe Bryant has the best Christmas Day sneaker. We can argue sneakers until the end of time, but this is not even up for debate — the Kobe 6 Grinch is the greatest Christmas sneaker of all time. Even though players have been wearing special edition sneakers or Player Edition sneakers in Christmas Day games going back to the '90s, it wasn't really until the NBA made the Christmas Day slate of games a showcase event in 2008 that the Christmas Day sneaker reveal became a thing. The sneaker companies ran with it,Sneakers2090 using it as an opportunity to market their latest on-court models on the feet of their biggest names. While we could have included many notable sneakers worn on Christmas Day we decided to keep this list from 2008 to the present, and only shoes that were signature...

25Dec

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Africa’s first company to make professional running shoes secures $1 million in funding to expand

The funding round will also allow the high-performance shoe firm to partner with East African Breweries Limited (EABL) to create a locally-sourced running-inspired sneaker called Mwanzo.A statement on PR Newswire said the funding included several Kenyan angel investors and was led by Talanton, a U.S.-based impact investment fund focused on businesses in developing countries. “We are thrilled about this investment,” said Iris Wen, a partner at Talanton. “Enda is perfectly aligned with our mission of investing in companies that create high-quality jobs,Hey Dude Shoes especially in places where these jobs have the most impact by creating opportunity and reducing poverty. That they’re able to do this while satisfying customers around the world means they’re poised for growth and making a...