210) Rebecca Burgess [Part 2]: Building relational, regenerative systems with localized Fibersheds
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Burgess is the Executive Director of Fibershed, Chair of the Board for Carbon Cycle Institute, and the author of Harvesting Color and Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy.
In our concluding part 2 of our 2-part conversation, Rebecca sheds light on why the real solutions we need for our ecological crises will likely be undervalued and given less attention to (when compared to solutions driven by synthetic biology corporations); how localizing our textile systems can green the fashion industry in ways that a globalized system cannot; and more.
Featured music: Mountain Twin by Joel Porter
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| 1:10.7 | The industry started to rely on so much on certifications and, you know, blockchain |
| 1:16.3 | and all these ways to kind of secure that things are happening the way people say |
| 1:20.3 | they're happening. |
| 1:21.4 | But I tell you, there's nothing like just being in a community where goods and services |
| 1:26.3 | are moving around to all these people you know. |
| 1:29.3 | Fibersheds become very relational. |
| 1:31.6 | Like, I know the person who loaves my pants. |
| 1:33.9 | I know that they did not use finishing agents on those pants. |
| 1:37.1 | I can go to that mill any time of the month and do a site visit. |
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