Weaving Voices
About the Podcast
Weaving Voices is a Whetstone Radio Collective podcast that stitches textile systems and traditions, economic philosophy, and climate science into a quilt of understanding. Designed to transform our thinking and actions both as citizens and material culture makers and users.
About the Host
Rebecca Burgess
Rebecca Burgess is the Executive Director of Fibershed. She has two decades of experience working at the intersection of ecology, fiber systems, and regional economic development. She is the author of the best-selling book Harvesting Color, a bioregional look into the natural dye traditions of North America, and Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy released in 2019. She has taught at Westminster College, Harvard University, and California College of the Arts. She also holds a new board position at the Livestock Conservancy and is serving on the leadership council of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems at Chico State University.
Weaving Voices Ep 1: The Economic Waters We Swim In
Weaving Voices Ep 2: Mulberry Trees, Silk Moths and Modern Sustainability Measurements
Weaving Voices Ep 3: Reflections from an Industrial Ecologist
Weaving Voices Ep 4: Andean Pastoralist Livelihood Initiative
Weaving Voices Ep 5: A Life Woven Together Between Shepherd and Sheep
Weaving Voices Ep 6: Threads of Life; A Visual Map of Indonesian Island Communities
Weaving Voices Ep 7: Shedding Plastic, Our Modern Wardrobes Impact on Oceans & Soils
Weaving Voices Ep 8: Labor's Lever & a Just Transition for Fast Fashion Workers
Weaving Voices Ep 9: Kantamanto Market-- life and livelihood in fast fashion's waste streams.
Weaving Voices Ep 10: Cotton Before it Became the Fabric of Everyone's Lives
Show Credits
Bethany Sands
Editor
Maha Sanad
Intern
Jennifer O'Neill
Producer