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A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast

067: Sustainable & Ethical Fashion with Aspen Murray of Ethigirl

A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast

Marjorie Alexander

Society & Culture, Science, Nature

4.6 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode, Aspen Murray and Marjorie Alexander cover:

  • The reality of working conditions at some of the sweatshops that make our clothing
  • Companies who are creating ethically and sustainably produced clothing
  • How to spot sustainable clothing while shopping at traditional stores

About our guest:

Aspen Murray is a young activist who is dedicating her life to the pursuit of making ethical + sustainable fashion the norm. She firmly believes that we all have the power to vote with our dollars, but that we need to reform how we look at conscious consumerism: it shouldn't be difficult, it shouldn't be inaccessible to certain people, and it's okay if we mess up − because the onus should never fall entirely on the consumer

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 67.

0:04.0

Today we chat with Aspen Murray, founder of ethiegirl.com, where she blogs about sustainable

0:09.4

and ethical fashion. But before we get into that, I wanted to take a moment to thank our sponsor.

0:14.9

Today's episode is brought to you by Good Clean Love, the feminine hygiene product line that is home to the first carbon-neutral

0:21.3

personal lubricant.

0:23.1

Last week, I had a great conversation with Wendy Sturgar, founder and CEO of the company,

0:28.0

about why she chose to make all Good Clean Love products with zero parabins, petrochemicals,

0:32.6

or fragrances.

0:34.0

We'll hear a little bit more about Good Clean Love later in the episode, and you can check them out for yourself at goodcleanlove.com.

0:40.3

Welcome to A Sustainable Mind, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental change makers of tomorrow.

0:56.0

I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander.

1:04.0

Aspen Murray is a young activist who is dedicating her life to the pursuit of making ethical and sustainable fashion the norm. She firmly believes that

1:12.3

we all have the power to vote with our dollar, but that we need to reform how we look at conscious

1:17.0

consumerism. Aspen, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. I would love to get into your

1:24.6

awesome blog, Ethie Girl. And before we get into that, I want to ask about how nature,

1:30.6

the environment, and sustainability played a role in your childhood growing up. Tell us a bit about that.

1:34.9

Sure, absolutely. So, yeah, like a lot of environmentalists, I grew up in a pretty small town.

1:42.6

I grew up in New Brunswick and then later moved to the big city.

1:46.2

So that was a huge change.

1:47.4

But yeah, so I was very surrounded by nature.

1:49.9

My dad has and always was very outdoorsy.

1:53.6

He skied, snowboarded, kayaked.

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