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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Dr. Jennifer Hinton Thinks Not-for-Profit Business Models Can Help Address The Problems of Fast Fashion.
Big Closets Small Planet - May 08, 2024 08:12 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIs our current for-profit economic model a root cause of many of today's sustainability challenges generally, and specifically in apparel and fashion? Dr. Jennifer Hinton, author and Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at University of Lund, has concluded so....
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: For Ken Pucker, circularity is just another win-win fantasy & distraction for the fashion industry.
Big Closets Small Planet - June 29, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsKen Pucker, former Timberland COO and current Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, recently published a series of pieces critiquing the circular agenda for fashion. In this content rich interview, Ken explains the history of how market-led voluntary solutions became th...
For Ken Pucker, circularity is just another win-win fantasy & distraction for the fashion industry.
Big Closets Small Planet - June 29, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsKen Pucker, former Timberland COO and current Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, recently published a series of pieces critiquing the circular agenda for fashion. In this content rich interview, Ken explains the history of how market-led voluntary solutions became th...
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Climate & The 1 Trillion Dollar Question
Big Closets Small Planet - April 06, 2022 12:28 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsNow that climate action has rapidly moved to the top of the apparel industry's agenda, it is crucial that the industry moves from intention to action - and fast. The latest analysis indicates what we need to do, but the 1 trillion dollar question is how much capital will be required to do it. En...
023. 4 Enterprises, 3 Kingdoms, 2 Families, 1 Farm
Pasture-Raised Podcast - December 31, 2021 17:58 - 1 hourFor the past decade, two families have settled on a rolling 120 acre property in Henry County, KY under the name “Valley Spirit Farm”. Together the the Fiechters and Monroes have partnered in the care of the land, and the building of a business that sustains their way of life. In this conversa...
022 Farm Marketing with Ginger Shields
Pasture-Raised Podcast - March 02, 2021 22:44 - 41 minutesGinger shields of Pastured Life Farm joined me to discuss her extensive knowledge and experience in farm marketing. Ginger's Links: pasturedlifefarm.com Pastured Life Farm (facebook.com) instagram.com/pasturedlifefarms APPPA.org My Links: grocefamilyfarm.com info@grocefamilyf...
21. Ginger Shields on our farms' most important product: future adult humans
Pasture-Raised Podcast - March 02, 2021 16:51 - 39 minutesWhen done thoughtfully, farms can provide a great context for raising kids; especially when education is seen as life-long, and as wide as the real world around us. Dave and Ginger rely on their children to run their successful farm business with them. And they rely on their farm to provide the ...
20. Joelle Wood: Striking out on your own: growing, marketing, processing, and skilling up.
Pasture-Raised Podcast - January 28, 2021 04:49 - 1 hourI talked to Joelle Wood about her path towards guiding her farm as she took on a lot in 2020, feeding her community and seizing on great opportunities to grow her farm; all while holding to her aspirational values. https://www.theoldfashionedfarmstead.com/ The Old Fashioned Farmstead (@theo...
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Fashion is endangering our forests. A new report from Canopy weighs in on what we need to do about it.
Big Closets Small Planet - December 16, 2020 08:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsForests play a crucial role in promoting biodiversity, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and supporting livelihoods, especially in poorer countries. But because wood is the basis for so many of our products, the pressure to exploit forests, usually in unsustainable ways, continues to ...
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Are the Sustainable Apparel Coalition and the HIGG tools making a meaningful difference? A new report weighs in.
Big Closets Small Planet - November 25, 2020 09:37 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIt's been nearly a decade since Patagonia, Walmart and a number of other brands, retailers, manufacturers and NGOs established the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), an innovative industry collaboration. As the coalition's website states, its vision is "an apparel, footwear, and textiles indu...
DEBATE: Part 2 - A proposed Swedish chemical tax on textiles - is this a case study in great government leadership or political greenwash?
Big Closets Small Planet - November 11, 2020 08:11 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSweden has a reputation for being a sustainability leader in many areas, so you can imagine how curious we were to learn about a newish proposal from the current Swedish government for a chemical tax on textiles. The proposal was recently made available to stakeholders for comment, and of course...
019 The Post-Permaculture Pig Farmer -Cliff Davis
Pasture-Raised Podcast - October 30, 2020 01:10 - 1 hourCliff Davis spent much of his adult life, and became known across the region as a permaculture educator, helping people learn how to apply ecological literacy and system thinking to their footprint on the land. But in this episode we talk about his new act: farming and breeding pigs, and selling...
DEBATE: Part 1 - A proposed Swedish chemical tax on textiles - is this a case study in great government leadership or political greenwash?
Big Closets Small Planet - October 28, 2020 06:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSweden has a reputation for being a sustainability leader in many areas, so you can imagine how curious we were to learn about a newish proposal from the current Swedish government for a chemical tax on textiles. The proposal was recently made available to stakeholders for comment, and of course...
18 A Farmer, A Butcher, and A USDA Compliance Officer walk into a bar...
Pasture-Raised Podcast - October 19, 2020 10:52 - 58 minutesAfter Jesse sharing about their business and sales models on episode 17, Matthew joins the conversation to share more about the ins and outs of their operation; but especially hiring and managing employees, and navigating USDA inspected slaughter and processing with both poultry and mammals. The...
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Sustainable investment expert Sasja Beslik thinks the fashion industry is a very poor performer and possibly a stranded asset.
Big Closets Small Planet - October 14, 2020 06:49 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSasja Beslik, Head of Sustainable Finance Development at J Safra Sarasin, fled Bosnia when he was 18 to escape the war. He ended up in Sweden and today spends his time leveraging the power of the financial sector to improve the world. He is particularly interested in the fashion industry's impac...
17 Growing/Processing/Selling/Staffing a farm with Jesie Lawrence
Pasture-Raised Podcast - October 09, 2020 10:48 - 39 minutesI had the pleasure of speaking with Jesie and Matthew Lawrence about the many sides of their diverse business, including farming, marketing, selling, and processing on a growing farm. In this episode Jesie helped me wrap my brain around all they do, their infrastructure, staff, and the ways they...
MAKE YOUR CASE: Phil Patterson believes the way we use chemicals in the textiles industry is broken and here is his plan to change it!
Big Closets Small Planet - September 30, 2020 08:55 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsPhil Patterson, Managing Director at Colour Connections, has been working at the intersection between the textile industry and influential retail brands for over twenty years, and after some recent soul-searching he had an epiphany. He has come to the conclusion that the current way we use and...
016 Mid-Season Check up!
Pasture-Raised Podcast - September 20, 2020 20:52 - 54 minutesI asked some of our past guests to share their answers to seven questions, so that we could hear some unique perspectives on how different farms and farmers across the country are faring during the wild year that is 2020. Joe Koopsen, Jordan Green, and Ben Grimes all shared their answers to the ...
FACT OR FICTION: Alden Wicker and Sandra Roos think the fashion industry has a misinformation problem... do you agree?
Big Closets Small Planet - September 16, 2020 08:14 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode we continue to explore the most commonly repeated "factoids" in fashion and sustainability in order to determine whether they are substantive and useful. As a reminder, a "factoid" is information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact. During Sto...
015 Marketing, Distribution, and Partnerships for Efficient and Successful Farm Business with Curtis Brown
Pasture-Raised Podcast - August 21, 2020 11:01 - 1 hourCurtis Brown is back for part two of our interview, where we talk all about how he has, and will continue to, get his meat into his customers' hands. We talk CSA logistics, marketing ideas, and streamlining through a cooperative distribution network. Curtis and Ashley's Links: foodethosfarm...
014 Regenerating the Northern Plains with Curtis Brown
Pasture-Raised Podcast - August 03, 2020 16:55 - 1 hourCurtis and Ashley started out, like me, raising vegetables on a small plot about a decade ago. Now they are regenerating a large section of prairie, selling Meat CSA's, and taking names. In this first episode of a two-part series, Curtis and I discuss their farm, its history and his history on i...
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Femke Groothuis argues that tax reform is the best way to transform the apparel industry at the scale and pace required.
Big Closets Small Planet - June 24, 2020 09:49 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsYou've heard it before: The global environmental challenges we face are daunting and time sensitive. If we want to avoid catastrophic tipping points, we need to move quickly and ambitiously. If we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) we need to invest trillions of dollars. An...
LEADING CHANGE: What can a new psychology of climate action teach us about being better change agents?
Big Closets Small Planet - June 10, 2020 07:47 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAs a listener of Big Closets Small Planet, you are likely interested and engaged in changing the apparel industry. So for those of you who are keen to strengthen your change agent skills, we are introducing a new segment called Leading Change. In this first episode we are joined by Per Espen Sto...
INDUSTRY UPDATE: Circular business models, like clothing resale and subscription rental, are taking off - but can they ever fully replace today's retail models and deliver the radical sustainability improvements we need?
Big Closets Small Planet - May 27, 2020 05:31 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsExperts and practitioners agree that simply improving upon today's take-make-waste linear business models will not ensure the apparel industry can operate within the planet's ecological boundaries. Instead, a new circular economy is needed and thus new circular business models. Circular business...
013 Changing times, changing farms
Pasture-Raised Podcast - May 18, 2020 05:07 - 57 minutesAn episode recoded in April of 2020 on how Charlie and his wife Kerissa are adapting and growing into the Covid 19 pandemic. Thanks to Charlie for this wide-ranging discussion touching on all aspects of his farm and business. https://coveyrisefarmsohio.com/
012.5 An Update from Ramble Creek
Pasture-Raised Podcast - May 18, 2020 04:30 - 14 minutesAll about how Covid 19 has affected Ramble Creek Farm since we recorded Josh's episode.
FACT OR FICTION: Does the apparel industry really create more greenhouse gases than flights and shipping combined?
Big Closets Small Planet - May 13, 2020 07:33 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this new segment we will explore commonly repeated "factoids" in order to determine whether they are substantive and useful. Perhaps you have heard the statement that the production and use of clothing creates more climate impact than that of flights and shipping combined? A range of organisa...
INDUSTRY UPDATE: COVID-19 - Are millions of workers at risk? Will Bangladesh ever be the same?
Big Closets Small Planet - April 29, 2020 07:12 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe impacts of the corona virus on the apparel sector have been fast and furious. We are all affected, but millions of low-wage garment workers are facing a potentially catastrophic situation. In this episode we talk to a number of experts and union representatives to better understand what is h...
INSPIRING INNOVATION: Is digital clothing the future of fashion and a solution to overconsumption?
Big Closets Small Planet - April 15, 2020 07:33 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe Fabricant, a digital fashion house, recently sold a piece of digital clothing - clothing that is only available in digital environments - for over 9000 USD. This experience helped them realise that their expertise in 3-d digital modelling could be used for a better purpose: creating a new in...
012 Going all-in! Taking over, scaling up, and selling to The Big City: Josh Carnes of Ramble Creek Farm
Pasture-Raised Podcast - April 13, 2020 14:21 - 1 hourMany first generation farmers start on family land, or from scratch in their home region, making a go of it nearby to, and selling into their own community. Well Josh started Ramble Creek Farm by moving across the country, purchasing an existing farm with infrastructure and market access, and bu...
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