How to Ditch Fast Fashion and Start Loving Your Clothes

By Jeannine Brandt

Back in university, I took a random fashion history course (which turned out to be about a lot more than just fashion). There, I learnt about fast fashion: the modern phenomenon where clothing is produced quickly and cheaply to keep up with the great demand. Most of our clothes are products of ‘fast fashion’.

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Transition Gardening (retro)

by Jack Heppner

While the message still does not resonate with all of us, more and more people are beginning to grow food close to home. We are waking up to the fact that the cheap and abundant oil that fuels our agricultural and transportation industries is rapidly coming to an end. That means things must begin to change.

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Climate Change is a Human Problem (retro)

by Jeff Wheeldon

Climate change is no longer a scientific problem.

There will always be important scientific work to do regarding climate change. We need to know as much as we can about the nature of our climate, the warming effects of air pollution, the acidification of the oceans, the way weather patterns will change. All of that is absolutely crucial. But climate change is not caused by scientific charts and graphs and Al Gore, and the scientific answer for what really does cause climate change is very clear and well-established. Climate change is caused by human beings burning fossil fuels, an inconvenient truth that no amount of denial can change.

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Water into Wine

 

by Wade Wiebe

“Beer is proof that God exists and wants us to be happy”. You may have heard that cheeky quotation attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but it isn’t quite accurate. According to The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Franklin actually wrote this in a letter to Abbe Morellet: “We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana, as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy!”

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Producer Profile: Poppy & Mae Co.

By Kailynne Koster

Ever since a young age I have been creative and expressed myself through various forms of art. When I was 10, my grandma taught me how to sew. I remember the exact day… one morning she taught me the basics of the sewing machine and how to sew patchwork squares together. She had to run into town for a few hours, so she told me to keep practicing sewing together squares. Later that afternoon when she came home, I had sewn together enough lines of squares for an entire front panel of a patchwork blanket.

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