I was interviewed for a podcast! | Creativity, Community and Intersectionality for Sustainable Solutions

hello friends!

I was recently interviewed for A Little Bit of Lagom’s podcast! You can give it a listen HERE (or below) and read the blog post from Marla HERE.

Below are links to the various resources and articles that I mention during the podcast. At the very end, I’m also asking that you please help me in supporting Marla’s continued work in the community!

I can't believe it's already episode 18!In this episode, I had such an awesome conversation with Jasmine Harrison. Jasmine works as a project manager for non for profit environmental organisations, a career change she made after working within the fashion industry.

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Climate Change

• How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease

• Where does our food come from – why should we care?

• Where Has Your Food Been?

• Disaster Relief For The Elderly And Disabled Is Already Hard. Now Add A Pandemic

Toxic Air and Water

• Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse

• The Environmental Justice Movement

  • “…the environmental justice movement addresses a statistical fact: people who live, work and play in America's most polluted environments are commonly people of color and the poor. Environmental justice advocates have shown that this is no accident. Communities of color, which are often poor, are routinely targeted to host facilities that have negative environmental impacts -- say, a landfill, dirty industrial plant or truck depot. The statistics provide clear evidence of what the movement rightly calls "environmental racism." Communities of color have been battling this injustice for decades.”

• Series overview: Why many in Central Appalachia lack reliable, clean water

• Beneath the Surface — Drinking Water Inside Appalachia

• Flint Water Crisis Fast Facts

• Six Years Later, Flint Still Doesn’t Have Clean Water: One of the Worst Environmental Injustices in the 21st Century

Waste

• Why fashion brands destroy billions’ worth of their own merchandise every year

  • “Fashion cycles have also gotten shorter because of the internet and fast fashion, so there’s a push to constantly put new merchandise out on the market. So when you combine these two, we are now literally at a place where we no longer have anywhere for this stuff to go other than up a chimney. The underlying business model now includes immense pressure to constantly replenish merchandise.”

• Food Loss and Waste

  • “Wasted food is the single largest category of material placed in municipal landfills and represents nourishment that could have helped feed families in need.”

• The Monster in our Closet: Fast Fashion & Textile Waste on the Rise

  • “In 1980 the EPA found the U.S. to have generated roughly 5 billion pounds of textile waste in the public waste stream. That amount has since spiked to 32.44 billion pounds in 2014. This is post-consumer textile waste, which includes products such as clothing, footwear, fashion accessories, towels, bedding, and drapery that have already been purchased. 95% of all textiles have the potential to be reused or recycled, but currently they are recycled at a rate of only 15%.”

WATCH

• Kiss the Ground: “Inspiring participation in global regeneration, starting with soil.”

RESOURCES

• Intersectional Environmentalist

• Native-Land.ca | Our home on Native land

PURCHASE

• Boxed Water | Just Water

• Mananalu Canned Water

SUPPORT

If you learned anything from this podcast episode or found it entertaining, I ask that you please support Marla and A Little Bit of Lagom by donating to her ko-fi and to follow her on Instagram! I have a personal goal of raising $100 to support Marla’s continued work in the community, so please drop me a line with how much you donate so I can keep tally. I didn’t share this goal with Marla at all, so I’m hoping it can be a surprise for her!

One last thing for you to ponder: how can you create community in your life with what you have right now?

in solidarity,