Trick or Treat? Tips for a Susty Spooky Season ECO CHIC

198: From costumes to chocolate... Halloween is an easy time to trip up on our conscious consumerism. We're discussing some quick tips to keep your waste and impulse purchases this time of year, and also exploring some heavier ethical issues surrounding seasonal consumerism. We discuss costumes, decor, chocolate's dark history of child slavery, palm oil ... a quickie episode jam-packed for whatever your sustainable spooky season looks like.

Articles:

Cocoa’s child laborers (Washington Post)

Supreme Court says chocolate companies cannot be sued over child slavery on African cocoa farms (Washington Post)

Palm oil is destroying rainforests. But try going a day without it. (National Geographic)


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