Author: velichor
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Sources: Fast Fashion Quiz
Information Sources Question 1 1 Fast fashion contributes to climate change. 1.2 Fast fashion is built on inequality. 1.3 Fast fashion is built on worker exploitation. 1.6 Fast fashion is built on poor quality clothing. 1.7 Fast fashion is built on consumer culture. 1.8 Fast fashion is built on stolen clothing designs. Question 2 2…
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Slow fashion: the sustainable approach to style that doesn’t destroy the climate
Source: Winnipeg Sews Fast fashion is the world’s second-largest polluter; its consequences are frightening at an incomprehensible scale. Fortunately, it has a cure: slow fashion. I talked with textile educators and artists to gain an understanding of slow fashion as a lifestyle, business, and mindset. What is slow fashion? “Slow fashion is … a mindset…
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Sources: Article, “Dead White Man’s Clothes”
Information Sources 1 Kantamanto Market is one of the largest secondhand clothing markets in the world 2 Kantamanto Market hosts over 30,000 vendors 3 Approximately 15,000,000 garments pass through Kantamanto Market weekly 4 The Journey 5 The average number of garments per clothing bale is 200 6 Containers of clothing cost up to $95,000 7…
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Dead White Man’s Clothes, the result of our superfluous clothing consumption
Photo: velichor Where does clothing go when you’re done with it? A lot of it ends up in Kantamanto Market, one of the largest secondhand clothing markets in the world where over 30,000 vendors attempt to sell the ~15,000,000 garments that pass through it every week. The Journey A stained t-shirt is tossed onto an…
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My Commitments to the Fashion Revolution
I’ve been talking a lot about Fashion Revolution Week, but what am I actually doing? Well, aside from the huge fast fashion project here on my site, the short films, zine, and articles to come, and promotion of the cause through social media, I’m making some (public) personal commitments to do better as a consumer.…
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Forever Wasteful Spoof Ad
No clothing will make you live forever. According to a Cosmopolitan article, the California Department of Labor “looked into the labor practices of 77 independent factories in Southern California. Labor violations were found in 85 percent of cases and those companies were ordered to pay their workers $1.3 million in lost wages and damages. However,…
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Sources: YouTube Video, “i am velichor: 2024”
Information Sources N/A Stock Media I’ll try to attribute the author of each item when applicable in my next video. Music ╔ Downtown by Benjamin Tissot, on Bensound╠ Music by Bensound.com/free-music-for-videos╠ License code: 4GLKZS4VONLBAYY6╚ https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/downtown ╔ Fun Punk Opener by LiteSaturation, on Pixabay╚ https://pixabay.com/music/indie-pop-fun-punk-opener-14343/ ╔ Tuesday by Amaksi, on Pixabay╚ https://pixabay.com/music/beats-tuesday-glitch-soft-hip-hop-118327/ ╔ Rain and Nostalgia…
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Everything is Alive: Roland, Pencil
“Not to be blunt, I just don’t see much of a point anymore.” Hear a pencil named Roland talk about its life story, philosophy, and more.
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Manitoba’s First Medicinal Herb Farm
What appears to be the province’s first ever medicinal herb farm has arrived. Awaken Herbs, found 40 minutes northeast of Winnipeg, will be offering a large variety of high-quality herbs through weekly U-Picks, a CSA program, and bulk dried herb sales.
