Trick or Treat? Tips for a Susty Spooky Season

ECO CHIC

Cloud10

Natural Sciences, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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198: From costumes to chocolate... Halloween is an easy time to trip up on our conscious consumerism. We're discussing some quick tips to keep your waste and impulse purchases this time of year, and also exploring some heavier ethical issues surrounding seasonal consumerism. We discuss costumes, decor, chocolate's dark history of child slavery, palm oil ... a quickie episode jam-packed for whatever your sustainable spooky season looks like. Articles: Cocoa’s child laborers (Washington Post) Supreme Court says chocolate companies cannot be sued over child slavery on African cocoa farms (Washington Post) Palm oil is destroying rainforests. But try going a day without it. (National Geographic) Thanks to our sponsors! Aspiration.com/ECOCHIC DameProducts.com - use code ECOCHIC for 15% off site wide Find me online - @ecochicpodcast on Instagram + @lauraediez on Tiktok. Email me at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.3	Today's episode is all about getting ready for spooky season, thinking a little bit
1:12.2	about sustainability as we enter the holidays, particularly Halloween. And I'm excited about this
1:17.5	episode because I feel like this is a topic really reminiscent of my early days in my
1:23.3	sustainability journey. I want to think about conscious consumerism through the holidays, of course,
1:29.2	and through these little special occasions that we can make just a bit more sustainable with
1:34.2	some conscious consumerism. And then, of course, on the flip side, we must recognize that there
1:40.7	is a really intense amount of waste that's associated with the holidays, not just
1:45.3	Halloween, but of course the Christmas holiday season, Thanksgiving, when we're thinking about
1:50.3	food waste, when we're thinking about excess decor, when we're thinking about buying gifts for people
1:55.4	when we could be buying experiences. There's so many little choices that we can make that align
1:59.9	more closely with those
2:01.2	environmentalist values. Every year, I do put out a Black Friday episode, and I really like that one.
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