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What to Wear and Why : Your Guilt-Free Guide to Sustainable Fashion   by Tiffanie Darke       ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Darke has nailed it with this look at overconsumption of fashion, the ginormous amount of waste, greenhouse gas emissions, products made from materials that won’t disappear for years, slave labor in places like China and Bangladesh, and us as consumers mindlessly buying more and more with little thought to the impact on the world. Time to fess up. I’m a hoarder. I have vintage clothes collected in the 70’s, clothing I adore that I can’t use and find hard to give away. I did find a home for a 50’s dress I loved, but that’s just one piece. How to repurpose clothing I don’t want to see dumped in Africa. That wonderful slashed to the waist velvet ball gown, and bolero jacket cut on the bias that had been a friend’s grandmother’s worn at a mayoral ball in the early 1900’s. I can’t let that go to someone who won’t love it. Yes, in the 70’s I wore it and felt fabulous. I...

The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton     ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A dystopian novel set not too far in the future. Big corporations and governments have finally killed off the bees by ignoring warnings, using response based approaches rather than preventative, neglect, abundant use of pesticides, and finally, experimentation and early release of bees that have not been properly tested that it turns out, don’t save but will destroy! We follow the last beekeeper’s daughter as she struggles to let go of her part in the destruction of the bees, which in turn has lead to loss of crops, hunger and riots. So many flow on effects! I sit on my patio sipping my morning coffee, identifying and welcoming the various insects, including bees as they flit around the herb garden. I’m concerned about the loss of insects along the food change. Less flies, less of many of these little creatures. I’ve planted to attract bees. Sacha Severn was institutionalised when her father was jailed.His reader h hidde...