I really enjoy teaching and working with kids, but I am equally passionate about understanding the ways in which we have been and are harming our land, and challenging the systems that perpetuate the cycle. There isn't just one solution, just as there isn't just one problem. I want to study the web and its parts, and maybe then I can get somewhere.
The Master of Education in Sustainability, Innovation, and Creativity at Cape Breton University is the program through which I am grateful to study, and this website is the platform with which I will demonstrate my learning.
Welcome aboard, language warning, and beware of dog.
Module 1's task is a collection of resources centering on the concept of fast fashion and the environmental and social impacts caused by the industry.
Photo: Blue Knitted Baby Blanket. (Photographed by the author, 2017).
Module 2's task focuses on the back-breeding/ de-extinction of aurochs, a pre-1600s European bovid that became extinct due to human interference. This module's task considers the trophic cascade instigated by the absence of this species, and how we may begin to repair the damage.
https://sites.google.com/view/gutpunchfashion/educ-6101-fundamentals-of-sustainability/6101-task-2
Photo: Highland Cow at an Okanagan Vineyard. (Photographed by the author, 2017).
Module 3's task is one of intense self-reflection and behavior monitoring. For this task, I considered not just what I purchased and how I was influenced to make my purchasing decisions, but the need that these purchases fulfilled in me, and the toxic relationship between me, the consumer, and both in-person and digital spaces of community and commerce.
https://sites.google.com/view/gutpunchfashion/educ-6101-fundamentals-of-sustainability/6101-task-3
Photo: Sam at Barnet Marine Park. (Photographed by the author, 2016).
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