TGM #141: Green fashion show (June 12, 2009)
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- Shakir Haq and Alessandra Herrera Bennett, Co-directors of Toronto’s Growing Trends fashion show, talk with Jordan Poppenk about the state of the fashion industry, its ecological footprint, and ways that young designers are aspiring to make clothing a little greener.
- We explore the outcome of the latest UN Commission on Sustainable Development and discuss Canada’s position at the negotiating table. Green Majority reporter Joanna Dafoe shares her personal account of the latest round of UN negotiations in New York.
Green perspectives on fashion
United Nations Sustainable Development Commission
Headlines:
- Taxpayers will be required to pay the cost of insuring the AECL, even if privatized.
- Syncrude Canada has filed a constitutional challenge to counter charges it is criminally responsible for the deaths of 1600 ducks last June.
- Independent auditors show huge amounts of leakage in Ontario’s drinking water system.
- Ontario’s advisory council recommends the toughest water radioactivity standards in the world.
- Nova Scotia elects the first NDP government east of Ontario.
- US and China move closer to climate deal
- Caribbean coral reefs collapsing: study
- More headlines…
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