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

248) Maxine Bédat: Setting new standards for 'sustainability' in the fashion industry

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

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Maxine Bédat is the founder and director of New Standard Institute, which is an information platform that seeks to bring together and accelerate existing sustainability efforts in the fashion industry and ensure that strong science and data drive change in the sector.

In this podcast episode, Maxine sheds light on how the New Standard Institute is going about setting a new standard for the fashion industry, especially when words such as 'sustainable' and 'eco-friendly' are often used as a greenwashing tool; why recycled microplastic fibers typically used in ‘eco’ athletic wear or swimwear might not be as eco-friendly as it's made out to be; and more.

 

Featured music: The Fruitful Darkness  by Trevor Hall

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So it is, with the clothing that we wear and the fashion industry, the very roots of it,

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are in colonialism and are in slavery.

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And we have to recognize those very roots, if we're even going to begin to address the modern ramifications

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of those roots.

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