{"id":32108,"date":"2012-09-06T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32108"},"modified":"2012-09-06T10:06:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:06:04","slug":"teen-reporter-grades-the-shoe-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32108","title":{"rendered":"Teen Reporter Grades The Shoe Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/koston_nike.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/koston_nike.jpg','popup','width=300,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/koston_nike-tm.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Koston Nike\" \/><\/a>In a story titled <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modbee.com\/2012\/09\/04\/2357864\/shoes-with-soul-how-where-are.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shoes with soul: How, where are they made?<\/a><\/em><\/strong> written by a member of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modbee.com\/2012\/04\/17\/2162038_want-to-be-a-teen-in-the-newsroom.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Bee&#8217;s Teens in the Newsroom Program <\/a><\/strong>high schooler <strong>Zachary Senn<\/strong> grades some shoe companies by their social and environmental responsibilities. Not surprisingly <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nike<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vans<\/a><\/strong> made the list.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Master Senn had to say about Vans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Owned by VF Corporation, Vans shoes contracts with factories that use sweatshop-style labor but show signs of improvement. A study done by corporate responsibility group As You Sow said that VF&#8217;s transparency is bad, but it is working toward bettering the lives of its factory workers. <strong>Social Grade: C<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Although it still uses dangerous chemicals in the manufacturing of its shoes, Vans is starting to move in the direction of becoming an eco-friendly company, by participating in events with the organization Beach Clean Up, as well as hosting e-waste disposal. <strong>Environmental Grade: C<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nike did even worse, of course:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nike, the world&#8217;s largest sporting-goods maker, has had a long and troubled history of sweatshop conditions and employee abuse at factories that make its products. . . . There are several third-party reports that corporal punishment is used in some factories that make Nike products and that in the primarily female work force, workers who become pregnant are fired. . . <strong>Social Grade: F<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nike does, however, have several environmental programs, which include the use of organic cotton and recycling used rubber. <strong>Environmental Grade: B<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice to know that even the high schoolers know what&#8217;s up when it comes to footwear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modbee.com\/2012\/09\/04\/2357864\/shoes-with-soul-how-where-are.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Modesto Bee<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a story titled Shoes with soul: How, where are they made? written by a member of The Bee&#8217;s Teens in the Newsroom Program high schooler Zachary Senn grades some shoe companies by their social and environmental responsibilities. Not surprisingly Nike and Vans made the list. Here&#8217;s what Master Senn had to say about Vans: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32111,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32108\/revisions\/32111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}