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The rise of slow fashion in Ontario
Combating fast fashion with local efforts A growing number of professionals and hobbyists are working hard to bring clothing and textile manufacturing back to Ontario. “Clothing has been priced too cheaply for too long, so people don’t really understand how much work goes into things,” says Alexandra Julian, a production manager at a recycled clothing company. This movement away from fast fashion in favour of local, environmentally-conscious textile manufacturing is slowly gaining popularity as people are becoming more conscious of their environmental impact. Starting from the soil, ending in the soil “I like to tell people we’re soil farmers,” says Andrew MacDonald, an Ontario-based homesteader. MacDonald bases his family homestead…
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Heat rising
Addressing the current global climate crisis According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Earth’s overall temperature has risen by 0.18 C each decade since 1981. That may not seem like a lot, but it takes a large amount of heat to affect Earth’s temperature. Global warming is often not given the attention it needs, despite the ongoing climate crisis. There are already noticeable signs that the planet is being heavily impacted by rising temperatures. The most significant being the melting polar ice caps. An article by the World Wildlife Fund says the planet is losing “Arctic sea ice at a rate of almost 13 per cent per decade.” Younger…
