Aug 3, 2017
Selling global stories and sending hope
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Filipinos abroad send $2 billion+/month back home. Social entrepreneurs create help the poor by giving more than a hand-down. Global markets can help in conscious consumption.
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Jul 6, 2017  Canadian BlushgooderGoods Now that Canada is mid-way through the sesquicentennial Confederation year parade, goodergoods asks the question -- do our souvenirs represent Canadian values? |
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Jun 26, 2017  Dying for ColourgooderGoods A colourful world has a cost. Kelly Okamura explore dyes at the Chromatic Geography exhibit in Toronto with Kathy Hattori, Founder of Botanical Colours in Seattle. |
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Jun 12, 2017  UnzippedgooderGoods Kelly Okamura has a birthday and reflects on when to keep her ideas to herself and when to let them fly. (Hint: in this podcast, she does the latter.) |
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May 30, 2017  Making judgments in a glancegooderGoods Kelly Okamura attends Design Forward, a new sustainable fashion competition and finds she wants more than a passing glance from a conscious runway show. |
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May 16, 2017  Fashionably late for MothergooderGoods What to buy for the important woman in your life? Change-making a commercialized holiday that marks a reverent personal day for mums and sons and daughters. |
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May 1, 2017  The Fashion Revolution asks, do you care who made your clothes?gooderGoods Is the call for a Fashion Revolution ignored by ignorance if consumers don't know they are part of fashion? Do people care who made their clothes? |
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Apr 10, 2017  Dressing For TimegooderGoods Time pressed consumers want easy answers to the complicated question of what makes a garment that matters. |
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Mar 14, 2017  Blue Fashion goes on Whale WatchgooderGoods Who knew that an exhibit about whales could have a fashion component? And, blue news from Toronto’s fashion week. Ethical/eco-fashion on the runway. |
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Feb 22, 2017  A Fond Farewell to Honest Ed'sgooderGoods Sharing memories of bargain buying at Honest Ed's, North America's first discount retailer, and the man behind the iconic retail experience. |
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Feb 11, 2017  Buying bargains for change: An interview with Bargain JodygooderGoods In this Valentine message to buyers, Kelly Okamura talks with Jody Steinhauer about bargain buying over the years; how to make purchases that add value and help people with real needs. |
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Feb 6, 2017  Dress like a woman in a Red Chick YeargooderGoods Kelly Okamura responds to the new White House dress code for female staff, explores the hashtag #dresslikeawoman, and gives style advice for the astrological yin year of the Chinese Fire Chicken. |
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Jan 24, 2017  Wearing pinkgooderGoods Pink reflections on the Women's March. Pussycat hats and choosing feminist fashion attire. |
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Jan 5, 2017  Full disclosure buyinggooderGoods Kelly Okamura goes on a final shop at Honest Ed's, passes on bargains and owns up to buying an artificial tree. |
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Dec 11, 2016  Dressing for the treegooderGoods Shopping for Christmas presents -- showing your love for debt? |
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Nov 29, 2016  Red, black and click on Black FridaygooderGoods On this show: Black Friday in Canada, and shopping with students at a charity thrift store. |
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Nov 21, 2016  Window shopping and wearing toilet papergooderGoods Kelly Okamura goes shopping in NYC after the 2016 U.S. election. |
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Oct 30, 2016  Windbreakers: A chilling coat talegooderGoods Dressing for post-Halloween in "Final Home," and remembering Chaney Wenjack in the bitter cold through the "Secret Path" project. |
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Sep 11, 2016  'River Blue' connects consumption choices with impactgooderGoods Connecting cheap choices with living systems in River Blue. A conversation with the film makers on this yet to be released documentary. |
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Sep 5, 2016  Supporting textile workers globallygooderGoods Acknowledging textile workers at home and abroad on Labour Day with new consumer insight. |
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Aug 24, 2016  Blue jean blues: A closer look at a back-to-school basicgooderGoods For a workwear original, cheap denim has a high cost for those who can least afford the health and environmental damage. |
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Jul 26, 2016  Real world runwaygooderGoods The cancellation of Toronto Fashion Week could be a good thing. In this episode of gooderGoods, Kelly Okamura explains why. |
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Jun 27, 2016  Citizen InterventiongooderGoods Diverting Textile Waste via 100-in-1dayTO Citizen Intervention |
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May 24, 2016  Waste WantedgooderGoods Textile waste expert Sabine Weber says your one sided sock and holey towel need a better place to end their life cycles than the landfill. |
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