Can We Make Fast Fashion Guilt Free?
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Greg and Bella get a lesson in ethical consumerism from Design and Technology teacher Mr Brandy.
They'll start by looking at their own purchasing decisions: what's the last item they bought and why? They'll look at the oldest items in their wardrobes to see what that might tell us about how sustainable our current fashions are. As a case study, they'll take a look at the phone industry and discuss the ways we can beat planned obsolescence.
For the practical element of today's lesson, Mr Brandy will challenge Greg and Bella to set up their own fast fashion brand: coming up with a name and a product line, but also making some difficult decisions about manufacturing, shipping and packaging. Will they choose the more ethical, higher investment option, or will they leave ethics at the door in pursuit of profit?
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| 0:00.0 | Formula One, it's the pinnacle of motorsport, but it's just as famous for its high octane, |
| 0:05.7 | extravagance, huge sums of money and sprayed champagne. |
| 0:10.4 | In 2007, an improbable low-fi crime nearly brought the high-octane world of Formula One to its knees. |
| 0:17.0 | Disbelief, it's the only word. |
| 0:19.0 | Spygate drew in some of the most powerful men in the sports history. |
| 0:22.0 | It will haunt the people involved for |
| 0:24.3 | as long as they live. All set against the backdrop of Lewis Hamilton's record-breaking |
| 0:28.6 | debut and his ferocious rivalry with Fernando Alonso. It was like a bomber that exploded within the team. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Pete Tong and this is sports strangest crimes. |
| 0:38.8 | Spygate. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:42.1 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:46.4 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:49.6 | By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question, can we make fast fashion guilt free? I'm'm Bella Mackie and I'm Greg James and this is |
| 0:55.6 | Teach Me a Lesser in the podcast where we invite brilliant teachers from across |
| 0:58.9 | the UK to teach us their favorite lesson and today it's our first ever design and technology |
| 1:05.2 | lesson. By the way just to let you know the squeaking in the background is a what |
| 1:09.3 | did you buy Barney? It's a Christmas gingerbread man toy, gingerbread person. |
| 1:14.2 | Which he has destroyed and is trying to find the squeaker. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.5 | Which is the heart and that's how you kill the toy. |
| 1:20.4 | Right, so the toy could be killed during this lesson. Any second. It's a high stakes lesson today. |
| 1:26.7 | So did you make things in D.T? |
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