How green are your jeans?

• Position: Environment - Sustainable Apparel Coalition's green scoring system on garments - Brief article

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The label on your shirt tells you what size it is, where it was made, and who designed it. But that's not enough, says the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, a group that's creating a system to score how garment manufacturing affects the planet. While people near Xintang, China--where most of the world's jeans are made--may be used to seeing blue dye wash downriver from textile mills, Americans rarely see the connection between the environment and their wardrobes because 98 percent of the clothes they buy are made overseas. The coalition hopes to assign scores to all players in the life cycle...