In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison — sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions. In an impassioned talk she asks, “Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?”
Click on the link College or Prison or you can go to ted talk and search for, "How we're priming some kids for college and others for prison."
This video should help you understand more of the inequality. Continue reading and educating yourself because that is the only way to change. -Nafiinu
Fashion can be art. It is psychology, sociology, history, identity (religion, sexuality, gender), politics, and commerce. It is the material of the everyday and a vehicle for profound human performance; shelter and superfluity. Fashion—garmenture—is, literally, significant. So why is it so hard to talk about?...When your favorite childhood game is dress up and you grow up in a feminist household that sees fashion as capitalist frivolity, when that game follows you, obsessively, into adulthood, a crisis is inevitable; there still exists this notion of being “too smart for fashion.”
We are at a point in cultural history when once disparate mediums and fields of production are collapsing into each other. We look at paintings on screens and print digital photographs onto t-shirts. Film, music, literature, painting, sculpture, photography, along with “new media”—like the blogroll or interactive video, even holograms—are all just avenues, often cofunctioning avenues, used to 1. explore thought, 2. create beauty, and 3. accrue capital. Fashion is part of this network. Think artist collaborations, museum exhibitions, filmic costume design, and the rise of the fashion film. And yet, outside of the academy (where the study of fashion is flourishing), fashion still has trouble with the “explore thought” part. We don’t yet have much in the way of a popular critical discourse on fashion. It’s about time we integrate fashion into our elitist tradition of cultural criticism.
How can we write and think critically about fashion? And can we imagine new ways of looking at it?
There is no dearth of reflection and response from the Christian community on film, music, or food. We have great organizations, institutions, magazines, programs, and conferences that address these issues. We are well attuned to the fact that we should be mindful of the things that we set before our eyes, what we introduce to our ears, and we grant to our mouth and stomach.
Yet something is missing. Something fundamental.
That which is close to us, can often be far. That which is natural for us to think and talk about, can become supernatural. That which is physical for us, can be spiritual if we paid attention.
Clothing is close, but far. Natural, but supernatural. Physical, but spiritual.
Putting on clothing ranks as one of the most routine, mundane, unreflective practices we engage in. The only time we really consider it is in light of the weather or the occasion. At least that gets us thinking about it. But, like all the other practices we engage in—eating breakfast or driving to work—we should be thinking carefully and consistently about it. How should a Christian think about the fabric they put on their back?
What we wear on our bodies enables and conditions our experience of space and time. But perhaps more importantly, what we wear on our bodies can be an obedient and worshipful response to these experiences of space and time and who we encounter in these experiences. Fashion, in the narrowest sense of the word, can be an act of worship.
Fashion implies covering, but it certainly cannot be reduced to it. Covering yourself can be done subconsciously, unintentionally, impulsively, quickly. You cover yourself to get on with other more significant and meaningful tasks. You cover yourself to avoid incarceration. Covering yourself is an exercise in utilitarianism. Most Christians cover themselves.
Fashion, on the other hand, is an exercise in virtue. Fashion requires consciousness, intentionality, meditation, and time. Fashion assumes awareness and deliberation. It assumes the category of beauty and the discipline of aesthetics. It assumes that others are intentional about what they wear and why they wear it. It assumes the possibility and importance of style. It understands the concept of adornment. Few Christians fashion themselves.
There are biological, social, economic, and political issues that inform when, how, and to what degree Christians can and should fashion themselves. But this shouldn’t give us incentive to brush fashion aside as if its superfluous or peripheral to the Christian life. Truth be told, God cares about what we wear—have you read Leviticus? True, God caresthat we wear. But he also cares about what we wear.
God could have covered Adam and Eve with fig leaves. Instead, he fashioned them with animal skin.
How we cover and adorn our bodies is linked with our life of worship. What we wear is reflective of our perception of God’s presence and action in the world. If we don’t think God is redeeming this world, we won’t have any incentive to consider what we should wear here-and-now. Likewise, if we don’t think God cares about how we present ourselves before him and others through our material goods, we won’t have any incentive to acquire or develop these goods for our own purposes or market and produce them for others.
We experience God’s goodness and glory in this theatre of creation so that we may respond back in gratitude and worship with the gifts we have been given. We are invited to participate in adorning God’s creation, as he has already done, through our lyrics, paintbrushes, screenplays, choreography, and fabrics. Adorning our bodies is on par with adorning our museums, churches, homes, schools, and the like.
It’s time for a little more ration for fashion. Fashion, too, is and can be an exercise in Christian obedience and worship.
I think the purpose of everything is doing things with purpose and conviction. What do you think?
If nature spoke with words, what do you think it would say? I came across this video recently. Please take a look. Its a very powerful video. God gave us free will and gave everything to us, but we can't continue abusing it. Look at the Video Here --> Nature is Speaking(Mother Nature)
The sensitivity of human society to climate change varies. Sectors sensitive to climate change include water resources, coastal zones, human settlements, and human health. "We can observe this happening in real time in many places. Ice is melting in both polar ice caps and mountain glaciers. Lakes around the world, including Lake Superior, are warming rapidly – in some cases faster than the surrounding environment. Animals are changing migration patterns and plants are changing the dates of activity(Livescience). One of the most immediate and obvious effects of global warming is the increase in temperatures around the world. Global sea levels have risen about 8 inches since 1870, according to the EPA, and the rate of increase is expected to accelerate in the coming years. If current trends continue, many coastal areas, where roughly half of the Earth's human population lives, will be inundated. Since the Industrial Revolution began in the early 1700s, the acidity of the oceans has increased about 25 percent, according to the EPA. "This is a problem in the oceans in large part because many marine organisms make shells out of calcium carbonate (think corals, oysters), and their shells dissolve in acid solution."
As dramatic as the effects of climate change are expected to be on the natural world, the projected changes to human society may be even more devastating.
Agricultural systems will likely be dealt a crippling blow. Though growing seasons in some areas will expand, the combined impacts of drought, severe weather, lack of snowmelt, greater number and diversity of pests, lower groundwater tables and a loss of arable land could cause severe crop failures and livestock shortages worldwide.
North Carolina State University also notes that carbon dioxide is affecting plant growth. Though CO2 can increase the growth of plants, the plants may become less nutritious.
In addition to less nutritious food, the effect of global warming on human health is also expected to be serious. The American Medical Association has reported an increase in mosquito-borne diseases like malaria and dengue fever, as well as a rise in cases of chronic conditions like asthma, are already occurring, most likely as a direct result of global warming.
This loss of food security may, in turn, create havoc in international food markets and could spark famines, food riots, political instability and civil unrest worldwide, according to a number of analyses from sources as diverse as the U.S Department of Defense, the Center for American Progress and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Many of these expected effects are the result of exhaustive scientific research and climate models, and the fact that most of them are already being observed gives additional credibility to the projected effects of global warming and climate change.
We cannot be waiting for other people to start taking action. It is in our hands to take the first step, we are the people. There is power in the people.
Ethical fashion can be defined as the production of textile items with a conscience. With the concept of social responsibility gaining ground, corporates all over the world are recognizing the importance of environment protection and ethical business. Fashion houses are no exception. More and more fashion designers and textile producers are striving to produce goods that do not harm the environment and are cruelty-free. Ethical issues in fashion are emerging.
Ethical fashion WHEN?
The concept of ethical fashion is old; however, it is gaining more and more popularity in the modern times. As awareness about environment conservation, cruelty to animals and ethical issues in business is rising, fashion brands are also increasingly adopting ethical means. Customers are also becoming more and more aware of ethical fashion and the demand for ethically produced fashion products is on the rise.
Ethical fashion WHY?
Why should textile producers and customers adopt ethical fashion? Animal and human rights activists as well as environment protection activists have brought up ethical issues related to the fashion industry time and time again. Some of the major ethical issues that have come up are:
The production of cotton entails the use of a large amount of pesticides, which is harmful to the environment and to people. Figures indicate that nearly 2 billion USD worth of pesticides are used annually, of which pesticides worth about 819 million USD have been declared toxic as per the guidelines of the WHO. The health of the workers spraying pesticides in cotton fields and the people living around these fields are adversely affected. Pesticide poisoning can lead to symptoms such as headaches, tremors, nausea, depression, seizures, loss of consciousness, and, in some extreme cases, death. Empty pesticide containers are sometimes reused, which again leads to serious ill effects on the health of the people using such containers. The use of toxic pesticides leads to air, water and soil pollution. Apart from the pests, pesticides also cause the death of other small animals and birds consuming them inadvertently.
The chemical dyes that are used in the production of garments also lead to skin problems. Problems such as eczema, rashes and skin irritation have been noted among people on account of dangerous toxins in the clothes worn by them.
Human rights activists have also pointed out the various ethical issues behind the preparation of a fashion product. Extremely low wages and long hours, unhealthy and unsafe working conditions, exhaustion, sexual harassment and mental stress are some of these issues.
I believe that by thrifting and vintage shopping you are engaging in decreasing negative impacts on communities and environment. You are also able to support small businesses instead of corporations.
He say he readin' daily but he ain't really learnin'. He been in church but say that he ain't moved by any sermon. His face weak, he ain't prayed in a week, he wake up and just weep with his face in the sink.
He say he tryna' trust you, doesn't wanna disgust you but he was in the mist of sinners and did not discuss you and just today his anxiety's got the best of him, he knows Christ but for hours refuse to rest in Him, he's not the best of men but Lord I know he really loves you and I can't understand why lately he's not thinkin' of you.
God I know it's killin' You because it's killin' me and matter of fact there's somethin' else he's concealin' see, the person that I've been prayin' about is really me...
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23
Environmental Racism is an important concept that provided a label for some of the environmental activism occurring in minority and low-income communities. In particular, it links racism with environmental actions, experiences, and outcomes. In the broadest sense, environmental racism and its corollary, environmental discrimination, is the process whereby environmental decisions, actions, and policies result in racial discrimination or the creation of racial advantages. It arises from the interaction of three factors: (1) prejudicial belief and behavior, (2) the personal and institutional power to enact policies and actions that reflect one's own prejudices, and (3) privilege, unfair advantages over others and the ability to promote one's group over another. Thus, the termenvironmental racism, orenvironmental discrimination, is used to describe racial disparities in a range of actions and processes, including but not limited to the (1) increased likelihood of being exposed toenvironmental hazards; (2) disproportionate negative impacts of environmental processes; (3) disproportionate negative impacts of environmental policies, for example, the differential rate of cleanup of environmental contaminants in communities composed of different racial groups; (4) deliberate targeting and siting of noxious facilities in particular communities; (5) environmentalblackmailthat arises when workers are coerced or forced to choose between hazardous jobs and environmental standards; (6) segregation of ethnic minority workers in dangerous and dirty jobs; (7) lack of access to or inadequate maintenance of environmental amenities such as parks and playgrounds; and (8) inequality in environmental services such as garbage removal and transportation.
During the 1980s people of color began organizing environmental campaigns to prevent the poisoning of farm workers with pesticides; lead poisoning in inner-city children; the siting of noxious facilities—landfills, polluting industrial complexes, and incinerators—in communities like Warren County, North Carolina; Altgeld Gardens (the "toxicdoughnut" on Chicago's South-side); Convent, Louisiana's "cancer alley;" and Kettleman City, California. Activists also demanded the cleanup of communities like Triana, Alabama that had been contaminated with dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT), and the monitoring or closure of facilities like Emelle, Alabama's commercial hazardous landfill (the largest of its kind in the United States). In addition, they questioned the placement of large numbers of nuclear waste dumps on Native-American reservations. Meanwhile, activists, scholars, and policymakers began investigating the link between race and exposure to environmental hazards. Two influential studies exploring this relationship—one by the U.S. General Accounting Office (USGAO) and the other by the United Church of Christ (UCC)—found that African-Americans and other people of color were more likely to live close to hazardous waste sites and facilities than whites. The study by the UCC was particularly important because it made an explicit connection between race and the increased likelihood of being exposed to hazardous wastes. The studies also made the issue of race and the environment more salient in communities of color.
In 1977 Sidney Howe, Director of the Human Environment Center, argued that the poor were exposed to more pollution than others, and that those creating the most pollution live in the least polluted places. He used the term environmental justice to describe the corrective measures needed to address this disparity. The term environmental racismcame into popular use at a conference held at the University Michigan's School of Natural Resources in 1990. The conference, which focused on race and environmental hazards, brought together scholars and policymakers to discuss the relationship between racism and the environment. In addition, the term environmental equity movement was used in the late 1980s to describe the growing movement to address racial, gender, and class environmental inequalities. However, by the early 1990s the term justice replaced equity because environmental justice activists felt justice was a more inclusive term that incorporated the concepts of equality and impartiality. The movement focuses on two kinds of justice: (1) distributive justice, who bears what costs and benefits, and (2) corrective justice, concerned with the way individuals are treated during a social transaction. The environmental justice movement is concerned with distributive justice especially as it relates to identifying past racial injustices and advantages as well as the quest for future remedies. The movement is also concerned with corrective justice as it relates to corporate-worker–community relations and government–local community interactions.
Next time you make a purchase take in consideration who and what are impacted with your decisions. -Nafiinu
How equal do we want the world to be? You'd be surprised
The news of society's growing inequality makes all of us uneasy. But why? Dan Ariely reveals some new, surprising research on what we think is fair, as far as how wealth is distributed over societies ... then shows how it stacks up to the real stats.
How did we end up here. Who are you benefiting with the decisions that you make everyday. Awareness is important.
According to the United Nations Environmental Programme, global plastic consumption has gone from 5.5 million tons in the 1950s to 110 million tons in 2009. Where does all this plastic go when we’re done with it?
Today Americans discard about 33.6 million tons of plastic each year, but only 6.5 percent of it is recycled and 7.7 percent is combusted in waste-to-energy facilities, which create electricity or heat from garbage.
Photo credit: Samuel Mann
The rest ends up in landfills where it may take up to 1,000 years to decompose, and potentially leak pollutants into the soil and water. It’s estimated that there are also 100 millions tons of plastic debris floating around in the oceans threatening the health and safety of marine life.
seven codes to distinguish types of plastic for recycling, in reality, only two—polyethylene terephthalate (PET, used for synthetic fibers and water bottles) and high density polyethylene (HDPE, used for jugs, bottle caps, water pipes)—are routinely recycled. In more and more cities like New York and Chicago, low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic bags are now being recycled too. And increasingly the recycling industry’s use of near‐infrared spectroscopy, which can identify the chemical composition of plastics, is improving the efficiency and speed of plastic recycling.
Because plastics embody energy from fossil fuels (and actually have a higher energy value than coal), leaving so much of it in landfills is not only an environmental hazard, it is a huge waste of a valuable resource that could be used to produce electricity, heat, or fuel.
The report examined three ways of utilizing non-recycled plastic for energy production: converting plastics directly into liquid fuel, using separated plastics as fuel in special types of power plants, and increasing the amount of garbage burned (currently only 10 percent) in waste-to-energy facilities.
So next time you are about to throw that plastic bag! think about it one more time.
There used to be a time when we were fine living life with no particular religious bend. Pretending to be our own Gods defending our own systems of beliefs so as to not depend on anything other than our own self governing consent Defending an impending doom with no perceived need to concede to repent. Assuming our innocence in a sense to send the state of death was only the inevitable end of everything we could never rightly understand or comprehend. We used to fear the unknown until God made Himself known in its own mending the relationship between God and man...
Happy love day to everyone. I was looking to buy shipping bags, but I couldn't find anything that was colorful. It seems that the most popular in Amazon is the white poly mailers envelope. I am trying to find ways to be more eco-friendly, so here are some of the tips I found. Let me know if you have any more suggestions.
1. Corrugated Cardboard: As the most recycled and versatile material on the planet, using corrugated cardboard is an obvious choice for eco-friendly shipping boxes. The material can be designed into countless shapes, sizes, thicknesses and durability, allowing for customization that helps cut down on fuel costs and wasted material. Corrugated shipping boxes are widely reused for moving, shipment and storage.
2. Recycled Plastics: Many types of plastic do not break down easily after disposal, adding to landfills and causing harm to the future of the environment. Recycled plastics, such as recycled PET (RPET), are made from recycled plastic water bottles. Minimizing plastic use in packaging materials and using only RPET can help make packaging more eco-friendly.
3. Cushioning Materials: The right cushioning materials can improve eco-friendly shipping boxes. Traditional filler materials made of polystyrene foam, or Styrofoam, are harmful to the environment. Recyclable loose fill peanuts are most sustainable solutions, or less bulky cushioning material that reduces size and weight of boxes.
4. Sustainability Audits: Evaluating the packaging process from production to disposal provides a clear, detailed assessment of what works and what doesn't. Identifying the flaws within the process can improve packaging solutions in the future.
5. Packaging Design Reviews: Examine the benefits, cost factors and efficiency of a package's design, determining where and how the design fails and how to improve sustainable solutions.
Off Topic. I am thinking about changing the name Nafiinu. If you have any sugestions please send them my way. If I use your choice. You will get $25 credit to use at Nafiinu.
Nafiinu is a modest, vintage, eco-friendly, [artsy] shop
I found another article that talks about Modesty!
Read and leave your comments below Paul addresses what was a hot topic for his readers: Whether or not Christians should eat meat that was sacrificed to idols before being sold in the marketplace. Some thought it was sinful to do so, and thus avoided meat altogether. Other Christians thought it was fine to eat meat, as long as they were eating it to the glory of God, instead of the idols to which it had been offered.
Banquet at the House of Simon (detail), by Bernardo Strozzi.
The parallels between this situation and the current discussion on modesty are incredibly striking. So what if we read Romans 14 as though it addressed modesty? The passage is long, but I absolutely believe it’s worth including—and reading!—from start to finish.
(In the following verses, I have replaced “eat” and “meat” with “[wear]” and “[immodest clothing]” in order to make the parallels more readily apparent; the brackets serve to indicate what I have changed. If you’d like to hear why I feel comfortable taking this liberty, feel free to ask for a defense in the comments).
Romans 14
1 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to [wear] anything, but another, whose faith is weak, [wears] only [“modest” clothing]. 3 The one who [wears] everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not [wear] everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever [wears bikinis/Speedos/etc] does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’” 12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you [wear], you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your [dressing] destroy someone for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of [clothing choices], but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,18 because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of [clothes]. All [clothes are] clean, but it is wrong for a person to [wear] anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is better not to [wear bikinis] or [wear Speedos] or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.
22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they [dress in way they believe is “immodest”], because their [dressing] is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
What are my main takeaways from reading Romans 14 this way?
No more judgement (verses 3, 10, 13). I’m suspicious of anything that seems to tell Christians to roll over and ignore their convictions, but there are committed, genuinely-Jesus-following people on both sides of this debate. Perhaps it’s time to stop arguing and start respecting one another’s perspectives.
“The one who [wears] everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not [wear] everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.”
This means that the girl who wears a bikini with a clear conscience shouldn’t be judged for being too loose, and the girl who wears a one-piece because of her convictions shouldn’t be judged for being too narrow-minded. It also means that we need to stop telling each other what to wear—guys telling girls, girls telling girls, whatever. As verse 12 says, “each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.” There are certainly times when we need to confront one another in love, but in this case, we’ve erred so consistently on the confrontation side that we’ve stopped trusting the Spirit’s ability to convict others.
Dress in accordance with your convictions (verses 6, 14, 23)… For whatever reason, God has seen fit to allow some Christians to become deeply convicted about something others are not. For example, some Christians firmly believe that any form of contraceptive goes against the will of God, while others see contraceptives as a gift that helps them uphold the will of God. Does this mean we constantly try to dissuade or shame those who disagree with us about birth control? Of course not. We can have civil discussions about the issue, but sometimes we must agree to disagree, and refuse to act morally superior to those in the opposing camp.
The same goes for clothing. Sally may feel the Lord asking her to stop wearing bikinis because she does so for selfish, attention-seeking reasons that disregard her siblings in Christ. Jane may feel the Lord asking her to startwearing bikinis in order to celebrate, rather than hating and hiding, the body he gave her. What’s important at this point is that they are both obedient to their Spirit-led consciences, without trying to impose what the Spirit is leading them to do onto someone else. As verse 14 says, “if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.” What’s unclean for Sally may be clean for Jane, and vice versa. Both they and their observers need to live in this truth.
…But don’t assume that means you get to wear whatever you want (15, 19-21). Many have rallied around the battle cry, “Don’t dress for others, wear what makes YOU feel happy/comfortable/beautiful!” If you’re a Christian, though, your life and body aren’t your own. Sorry; you don’t get to dress for yourself. We’re meant to be a people marked by our love for one another (John 13:35), and as Romans 14:15 notes, “If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you [wear], you are no longer acting in love.” Uncomfortable though it may be, sometimes that means making sacrifices when it comes to our wardrobes.
But guess what? Your body isn’t your fellow Christian’s, either. “You were bought at a price” (1 Corinth. 6:20), and you belong to the one who paid that price. Your life is Christ’s—so dress for him.
What does this look like practically? It’s a lot harder than either dressing for oneself or for others, because there are no hard and fast rules. It’s easy to do what we want. It’s easy to comply with a dress code that makes our decisions for us.
It’s much more difficult to engage the person of Christ and ask for his guidance over and over again, season after season. And yet this is the only way to successfully navigate the “don’t cause others to stumble” mandate without producing a kind of communized Christianity that requires attractive women to wear burqas and muscular men to quit the gym. Above all, I believe this day-by-day dependence is what pleases Jesus most—being invited to do life with us, wrestling through daily decisions with us, being treated as a Person instead of a guidebook.
1. Re-wearing clothes reduces waste and pollution. Every garment purchased second-hand means one less new one produced, which is important because regardless of material, the production of clothing is costly to the environment. Producing synthetic fibers like polyester requires lots of energy, as well as crude oil like petroleum; byproducts include toxic gases and #chemicals. Sadly, pesticides used on most plants mean that even cotton and linen garments have a negative impact. Transportation-related pollution also decreases when clothing is re-used, as new clothes are much more likely to travel long distances before being sold than are their second-hand counterparts.
Factory production of dyes and synthetic materials used in clothing contributes to air and water pollution. By High Contrast, via Wikimedia Commons
2. Second-hand #clothes are less likely to end up in landfills. In order to survive its first wearer in decent enough condition to make it into your hands, there’s a good chance your thrifted item is pretty hardy. And every item that doesn’t break/rip/unravel once you take it home means one less item in your trashcan.
3. Higher quality. As mentioned in the environment section, this means you’re contributing less to landfills—but it also means less frustration over incidents like your brand-new shoe breaking the first time you wear it.
4. Uniqueness. Since thrifted clothing infrequently comes in multiples, you’re much less likely to bump into someone wearing the exact same thing. In addition, there’s bound to be lots of clothes that were produced decades ago, or on the other side of the country, or in some other circumstance that makes them different than what the average shopper is buying off the sale rack at the mall
Social impact
5. Thrift stores make it easier to know where your money is going. To track the money you handed over for that brand-new Old Navy polo, you would need to trace the brand back to the corporation behind it, the assembly factories used by the corporation, their textile providers, and those textile providers’ raw materials suppliers—at a bare minimum. In evaluating all these steps (and the many others involved in the production chain), there are numerous considerations to keep in mind: Was your farmer using environmentally responsible methods? Was your seamstress of legal working age, paid a fair wage to work in a safe factory? Is the corporation behind it the kind you want to support, or one whose views you wouldn't like to see perpetuated?
In short, it can be a bit of a nightmare to track the impact of your seemingly trivial purchase. However, with most #thrift stores, this burden is greatly reduced. For better or worse, the original purchaser’s money has already supported the whole chain of production that led to your second-hand Old Navy polo.* Since most thrift stores in Europe, North America, and Australia rely heavily (if not exclusively) on donated clothing, this means you only have to question one link in the whole chain—the store right in front of you.
Its also our job to take care of the planet God has given us.
Blessings,
Nafiinu
#vintage#modest#fashion#environment
Derived all information from: http://unwrinkling.com/why-thrift/
