209) Rebecca Burgess [Part 1]: Revealing the false promises of synthetic biology
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 33 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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| 1:10.9 | The idea that we get so kind of oversimplified in our conversations about animal agriculture, |
| 1:17.7 | or we get so oversimplified in our understanding of agriculture as a whole, we say, |
| 1:22.4 | okay, agriculture is bad, the fossil carbon industry is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. We just need everything |
| 1:28.9 | to be new. And that kind of oversimplification of life, it's what's driven so many |
| 1:35.0 | revolutions that have left you with the same core problems that you started with. |
| 1:43.1 | That was Rebecca Burgess, who we actually had on the podcast previously in episode 61. |
| 1:49.6 | She's the executive director of Fibershed, chair of the board for Carbon Cycle Institute, |
| 1:55.0 | and the author of Harvesting Color. For me, our first interview was so profound that I knew |
| 2:00.1 | we had to have her back on the show |
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