Eco Fashion Week was launched in 2009 as a non-profit organization devoted to spreading seeds of change for sustainable manufacturing in the fashion industry.

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"While smartphone sales continued on their torrid pace in the fourth quarter, the seeds of change are evident in the sales numbers, " Baker said.

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The seeds of such a change have already been sown.

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Optimists can see seeds of longer-term change.

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It is clear that this man possessed in abundance the skill of sowing entrepreneurial seeds that grew to change the world.

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Whatever seeds of doubt Labour may have sown about the Conservative plans, its change of tack was probably counter-productive.

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