Tag: independent article
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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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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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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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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.
