On October 8th, 2012, five environmental NGOs Friends of Nature, IPE, Green Beagle, Envirofriends, and Nanjing Green Stone jointly published the Phase Two textiles report titled Sustainable Apparel's Critical Blind Spot. It highlights that a number of large-scale clothing brands have gaps in the environmental management of their Chinese supply chains and calls for consumers at home and abroad to push brands to assume environmental responsibility.