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Making it Hyperlocal: The Story of a (Partially) Homemade Pair of Slippers

These slippers were designed to be locally-made and locally-consumed. They're also partly assembled by the user.

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Reimagining Manufacturing: A Different Way to Make Shoes

Dutch designer Eric Hullegie took a creative look at how shoe manufacturing could be changed.

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Visualization: What We’d Wear If China Didn’t Exist

When two interaction design students in Copenhagen started researching the histories behind their friends' outfits—where they were made, where...

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Just Dye It: Nike Moves to Limit Water Pollution

Right now, dyeing fabric uses tremendous amounts of water. Nike's partnering with a company that could change that.

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Backyard Economy: The Rise of Local Manufacturing

Goods that are made in the neighborhood, but not necessarily by hand

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To Perfect Green Manufacturing, Get Your Hands DIRTT-y

The candid innovator behind a sustainable interior design business explains how he made "green" so cheap that even Wall Street is buying his goods.

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Best Practices: Keen Builds Boots in America, Not Abroad

High-tech manufacturing can give American companies an edge at home.

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Across the Globe, Solar Power Just Keeps Getting Cheaper

Within the next four years, solar power in China could be as cheap as coal for generating electricity. In some parts of Australia, it's already there.

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Senator Attacks Smithsonian for Trinkets Made in China

Senator Bernie Sanders is using Hu Jintao's visit to ask the National Museum of American History to stop selling foreign goods in the gift shop.

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The Best Way to Close the Trade Deficit Is To End Our Oil Addiction

Half of the troubling American trade deficit is due to the staggering amount of oil that we import.

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The Modern Factory: SFMade Brings Manufacturing Back to San Francisco

SFMade wants us to treat our manufactures as artisans, not cogs in a machine.

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Watch the Surprisingly Personal Process of How Ink Is Made

In the following video, watch as a chief ink maker takes us through the surprisingly personal process of ink creation.

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Picture Show: Clothing Factories of Lima, Peru

Peruvian Pima cotton is world renowned as a high quality fiber, so it's no shock that clothing manufacturing is big business in the South American nation. Earlier this year, the photographer Joseph Pfeifer traveled to Lima, where toured five clothing manufacturing sites, each of which employs on average 1,500 to 2,000 people.