Have you voted for 2011s Green Business of the Year?

Couture Cottons has been chosen to be part of the Green America’s seventh annual People’s Choice Award for Green Business of the Year! The following dates explain in detail how to nominate your Green Business and when the results will be revealed.

August 13- September 11, Submissions will be accepted for Green Business of the Year from around the country. The Top Ten nominees will be announced to 125,000 e-newsletter subscribers, via Facebook and Twitter. The nominees will be announced on September 15 and then there will be a run-off vote.

The business that has the most run-off votes will be named 2011 Green Business of the Year!  In 2010, gDiapers won Business of the Year. This year the award will be presented at the San Francisco Green Festival taking place on November 12 – 13. Other winners have included reuseit.com, Mountain Rose Herbs, LunaPads International, and Ten Thousand Villages.

People’s Choice Award is a way of encouraging our country to continue creating a green economy. It also helps promote new Green businesses and many wonderful events like Green America and the Green Festival.

To nominate Couture Cottons for Green Business of the Year, click this website, http://www.greenamerica.org/peopleschoice. The page will go live for 2011 on Saturday, August 13.

Our pollution to our environment has been proven to be a major contributor to the rise of Autism in children in the US.  Scientists now believe that the disorder is caused by genetics, but mainly from products that we use everyday. Anything that contributes to the change in the body’s estrogen is what causes the disorder, pollution by our cars and factories including pesticides. Products like plastic bottles, plastic food packaging, soap, and toothpaste now carry chemicals contributing to genetic alteration. These products all carry chemicals like Bisphenol A and antimicrobials that are main factors to development change.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that has been around for years and continues to rise. In the United States 1 out of 110 children develop Autism. Children with Autism have problems in different areas of development, social interaction, behavior and socialization. The disorder also creates the child to have abnormal immune responses and may even develop Thyroid.

Autism is a very expensive disorder to take care of. Throughout a persons life they will spend about $3.2 million. All this money is spent for behavioral therapy and medication, and both do not even help the Autistic person very much.

Copyright CNN 2011
For more information on Autism visit:  http://www.kitv.com/health/28162045/detail.html#ixzz1RtwbcwOx

June 20th “Next Look” competition hosted by FGI San Antonio turned out to be a big success. Participants such as Couture Cottons, Julian Gold, Ranch at the Rim, Nancy’s, and Town & Country showcased one of a kind pieces that coincided with the shows theme of hair and makeup. Local businesses and salons participated in the event to supply hair and makeup; area restaurants such as Pico de Gallo, Barbesco Restaurant, and Mar Azul Tequila were also in attendance offering light nosh and sips of tequila. 

Andrian  Angel Olvera, makeup winner found his passion at age 15 and continues today only at age 18. Not being an ordinary person he continues to stay true to his creative style of being different.

Future posts will include pictures and competition results.

Vast networks of workers are lured from Bolivia to Argentina on empty promises. Most endure long and brutal journeys before being sent to work in clandestine clothing factories under oppressive conditions. In Velasquez’s case, she and her husband, with their one-year-old son, crossed the border into Argentina in 2006 using counterfeit documents provided to them by the smugglers. Once in Buenos Aires, Velasquez soon realized the whole scenario was a scam. She was dispatched to a hot, crowded factory and forced to sew 18 hours a day, seven days a week. She says she was rarely allowed outside, and had to sleep in a hallway alongside 20 other workers. For all her work, she made $25 dollars a month.

“Now, in Buenos Aires city there are 3,000 clandestine clothing factories with some 25,000 workers. Nearly 80 percent of the clothing produced in Argentina is made in clandestine factories,” “More people are being brought from Bolivia every day. Not just here to Argentina, they go to Brazil too,” she says. “The reality is that people need the work. And for that work, they have to suffer.”

By Brian Byrnes, CNN

Couture Cottons is made solely in the United States and is raising awareness about slave labor. “Slip on a pair and feel yourself Smile.”

Couture Cottons has paired with Houston’s exclusive urban resort to bring you the latest in Couture Cottons organic lingerie line. “Slip on a pair and feel yourself Smile.”

April 30 – May 1           9am – 2pm

Mother
If I could give you diamonds
for each tear you cried for me.
if I could five you sapphires
for each truth you’ve helped me see.
If I could give you rubies
for the heartache that you’ve known
If I could give you pearls
for the wisdom that you’ve shown.
Then you’ll have a treasure, mother,
that would mount up to the skies
That would almost match
the sparkle in your kind and loving eyes.
But I have no pearls, no diamonds,
As I’m sure you’re well aware
So instead I’ll give you Couture panties,
to show my love and care.

Author Unknown

Couture Cottons is celebrating Mother’s Day with- buy one product get the 2nd product at 50% off – go to www.couturecottons.com for that perfect gift or better yet – “Slip on a pair and feel yourself Smile.”