Weekend Reading: Juicing Needs to Die
- by Alden Wicker
- Sep 22, 2017
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Hi readers! Wild Tussah included EcoCult at the top of their list of the five best ethical blogs, and StyleWise put me in her top ten! Also, I wrote this guide to combatting climate change using your investment money. Not invested? Um, scuse me, you had better have some retirement funds started, at least!
Fashion
Reformation considers itself fast fashion. | Refinery29
Some of the best reporting I’ve seen on Bangladesh’s fashion pollution problem. But there is hope! | Undark
Nike debuted a new recycled leather shoe. | Quartz
Timberland is trying to redevelop Haiti’s cotton agriculture to stem deforestation. | Triple Pundit
I loved this story about the town that used to process America’s leather, before it was outsourced to Bangladesh. | Undark
Next after that: “it would be just one more step in a long journey for the tanning industry, which has spent decades hopscotching across the globe, assiduously fleeing regulation and rising labor costs, and leaving long-lasting toxic footprints at each stop.” | Undark
“If you’ve ever felt that jeans that refused to accommodate your ample ass might be a little racist, well, yeah, it turns out you’re right.” | Racked
Beauty
“And as news consumers increasingly seek out their own preferred sources, finding reliable expert advice becomes a choose-your-own-adventure game. Or, to use a Goop-ier word, journey.” | The Atlantic
There are places to resell your barely-used beauty products?? Amazing. | Racked
Food
Our produce is becoming less nutritious because of carbon in the atmosphere. | Politico
How big business got Brazil hooked on junk food. | NY Times
Good news! You paying more for fancy, single-origin coffee is actually helping African farmers! | Grub Street
Juicing needs to die. | Tree Hugger
Apartment
BPA-free doesn’t mean it’s non-toxic. | Undark
How to start a business that is radically transparent. | Inc.
Big Ideas
How should the EPA deal with toxins we encounter in our every day life? | Undark
“Development” is often used to impose Western values (and environmental destruction) on the people of other countries. | Style Wise
How to debunk fake news. (Hint: It’s a lot of work.) | Pacific Standard
I think I would just like to leave civilization, now. | The New Yorker
How we can keep India from ruining the rest of the world with their air conditioning. | The Verge
Mother is an an allegory promoting eco-feminism. | Pacific Standard
End of the World
The saddest seahorse picture, ever. | The Verge
“We appear to be drinking and probably eating microplastics all the time.” Does it matter? | The Guardian
