T-shirts and 'carbon colonialism'

An interesting piece in 'The Conversation' about the impact of fashion on the planet and the people who create it.

This is a very useful article which will certainly find a place in my Year 8 curriculum library as it nicely unpicks the impact of a shirt, with some useful statistics and detail on the Cambodian garment industry.

The story of a Zara Hoody

A site we shall be exploring with Year 8 students in the Lent term...
Exploring the story of an everyday item, the Zara hoody.
Scroll down to reveal the story.

Thanks to Follow the Things for the tipoff to the site. I'm preparing some associated resources, including a Google Form quiz.



In related news, J Williams (@geteach) has been getting active with the new Google Earth Creative tools to produce a new version of the NPR Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt activity.

The global journey of a t-shirt

Would you buy the t-shirt?

Geography of T-Shirts

A great resource from the NPR Planet Money site.
The people behind the site decided to follow the story of a t-shirt around the world.

Listen to the story (a transcript is available)

Work through the 5 chapters of the resource, and take a look at the comments too, some of which are very helpful...

Useful for the Year 8 unit on the Geography of my Stuff unit we will be using in the Lent Term.