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Rising Ventures: Conserve HRP's BoP Bags Make a Sustainable Fashion Statement

By Derek Newberry
Created May 31 2007 - 14:22
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Conserve HRP caters to the "fashion with a conscience" crowd by marketing chic hand-made accessories crafted from recycled materials. Conserve employs 300 under-served laborers, mostly women, who acquire the disposed materials and create bags and belts that are sold in stores internationally. Read the full profile to learn more about how this remarkable Indian enterprise is making sustainability values fashionable while generating the revenue it needs to achieve scale.
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