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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

209) Rebecca Burgess [Part 1]: Revealing the false promises of synthetic biology

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9661 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Rebecca Burgess, previously featured in episode 61, is the Executive Director of Fibershed, Chair of the Board for Carbon Cycle Institute, and the author of Harvesting Color. Her newest book is Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy. 

In this episode, Rebecca sheds light on how we came to globalize our fashion system; the known and unknown health effects associated with the AZO dyes frequently used on textiles; why she calls synthetic biology a “false solution” to the varied issues they claim to be able to address; and more.

Featured Music: Mountain Twin by Joel Porter

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The idea that we get so kind of oversimplified in our conversations about animal

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agriculture, or we get so oversimplified in our understanding of agriculture as a whole,

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we say, okay, agriculture is bad, the fossil carbon industry is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad,

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we just need everything to be new.

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And that kind of oversimplification of life,

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