Posts tagged responsibility
ZERO WASTE SHOPPING// A Business is not “Zero Waste” Because it Offers a Reusable Container Policy.

Does the bulk store you shop at recycle their packaging? Do they compost? What happens to their food waste? Is there compliance with labor laws? What happens behind-the-scenes of a business is just as important.

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REPRESENTATION// Zero Waste Instagram and The Responsibility of Image-Making

Images represent ideas, and on Instagram, where images can be posted with little accountability, it means that big concepts like “#zerowaste” get represented by whoever makes images.

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ECO-FRIENDLY SWAPS// Ingredients in Soaps and Cleaning Products

Buying a shampoo, laundry, or makeup product is also about deconstructing the object. You’re buying the plastic bottle, the ingredients, the health effects. One of the easiest eco-friendly swaps is choosing non toxic liquids.

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VANCOUVER LANDFILL// The Happiness Placebo. Our rate of consumption is not sustainable.

We’re sold the message that when we get the right stuff, job, clothes, relationship, we'll be happy. If this were true and stuff held intrinsic happiness, we wouldn't need to keep buying, and producing. Because once you got the thing you’d have happiness forever, you wouldn't need more.

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INSTAVERSARY// Two Years on Instagram

Social media can be a powerful tool for connection and a catalyst for inspiring change. But if you aren't using it in an intentional or conscious way, it may not serve its greatest usefulness, and may have the reverse effect, limiting your ability to be present…

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