PART 3—Going Global in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century By the time the cotton mills in North Carolina were shut down, much of the country’s textile work had already moved overseas. But today, the United States is still the world’s second largest producer and exporter of raw cotton. Producing roughly 4,000 thousand metric … Continue reading The Human and Climate Costs of Our Perpetually New Clothes- Part 3 (of 4)
Part 2--The Long Road to Fast Fashion: US Textile Boom and Bust in the 20th Century By the end of the Civil War, two other factors, one huge in scale and the other household-sized, were changing the United States and its textile industries. One was the railroad and the other was the consumer-marketed sewing machine. … Continue reading The Human and Climate Costs of Our Perpetually New Clothes- Part 2 (of 4)
PART 1—The Long Road to Fast Fashion: Prehistory to 1920 Regularly on the move when I was a kid, we lived in many different regions of the United States—the Midwest, the West Coast, New England, the Southeast, and Texas. We lived in large, small and mid-sized cities, but always in the suburbs. It wasn’t until … Continue reading The Human and Climate Costs of Our Perpetually New Clothes- Part 1 (of 4)
I can vividly recall a most disturbing sensation I've experienced more than a few times. It would overtake me on those occasions when I found myself face to face with a reality that belied what I was certain I knew to be true. These weren't so much factual assertions as positions I held about life … Continue reading Ground Beneath My Feet
The pragmatists understood truth to be what it is good for us to believe. Truths are beliefs confirmed or denied by further experience. Thus, a truth can be found ultimately to be false. Intersubjective agreement is the appropriate objective of scientific inquiry. Scientist, mathematician, and philosopher, Charles Sanders Pierce, suggested that concepts of knowledge, truth, and … Continue reading First Principle- Part 2
The Principles of Being 