
Calling All DIY Witches: Let's Green Up Halloween Costumes
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10/17/23 • 42 min
Be afraid... be very afraid... of your plastic Halloween costumes never degrading in the landfill. In this special Halloween episode, your favorite sustainability podcast hosts Kat and Tiff explore how to have a blast — maybe without the 16-foot skeletons. Listen as they chat about more eco-friendly costume ideas and how to do Halloween candy better.
Sources
- Instagrammers libery.mai fully vintage Scooby Doo costume
- Survey by HalloweenCostumes.com
- Survey by charity Fairyland Trust
- History Channel on history of Halloween
- Wallethub on Halloween stats
- Forbes on more sustainable Halloween
- Duke Today
- Yale Sustainabiilty
- The Honest Consumer
- BBC on costumes
- SaveYourWardRobe.com
- Orangutan Foundation on palm oil
- EthicalConsumer.org
- WildMinimalist for eco-friendlier candy
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Be afraid... be very afraid... of your plastic Halloween costumes never degrading in the landfill. In this special Halloween episode, your favorite sustainability podcast hosts Kat and Tiff explore how to have a blast — maybe without the 16-foot skeletons. Listen as they chat about more eco-friendly costume ideas and how to do Halloween candy better.
Sources
- Instagrammers libery.mai fully vintage Scooby Doo costume
- Survey by HalloweenCostumes.com
- Survey by charity Fairyland Trust
- History Channel on history of Halloween
- Wallethub on Halloween stats
- Forbes on more sustainable Halloween
- Duke Today
- Yale Sustainabiilty
- The Honest Consumer
- BBC on costumes
- SaveYourWardRobe.com
- Orangutan Foundation on palm oil
- EthicalConsumer.org
- WildMinimalist for eco-friendlier candy
Patreon: patreon.com/greeningupmyact
Instagram: @greeningupmyact
Facebook: Greening Up My Act
Email us with questions: [email protected]
YouTube: Greening Up My Act
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Sources
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What we talked about:
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- Healthline, How Often Should You Change Your Pad? - https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/how-many-days-between-periods
- Healthline, Are Menstrual Cups Dangerous? https://www.healthline.com/health/menstrual-cup-dangers
- AllMatters, Environmental reasons to switch to a menstrual cup - https://www.healthline.com/health/menstrual-cup-dangers
- NPR, Thinx Settled a lawsuit over chemicals in its period underwear - https://www.npr.org/2023/01/19/1150023002/thinx-period-underwear-lawsuit-settlement
- BuzzFeed News, What to know about period products and PFAS - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/fjollaarifi/period-underwear-pfas
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Greening Up My Act - Calling All DIY Witches: Let's Green Up Halloween Costumes
Transcript
Halloween in the US had surprisingly violent origins. Hmm, yeah, it started innocently enough. Young boys were removing gates to let livestock escape. They were tipping over occasionally occupied outhouses.
Putting wagons on the roofs of barns, you know, typical pranks. The sounds like goosey night in New Jersey anyway, okay?
Don't know what that is? Well, I'll tell you Okay, in a minute. Yeah. But then o
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