S04 Episode 210 | THE ROOT | Episode 6 | The New Standard

<p><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/99761/theroot-episode-6-libsyn.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="600" /></p> <p class=""><a href="http://consciouschatter.com/the-root" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">The Root</a> Episode 6: The New Standard is broken down into 3 parts — 1) coproducers Dominique and Kestrel interview each other to get a brief feeling of how this project has impacted them individually, 2) we share interviews with 4 of our sponsors from this project, and 3) we share more on what “The New Standard” means to us, the pillars it is built upon, and what questions we all need to be asking moving forward. </p> <p><strong>THE ROOT SPONSORS</strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">SAMATA, CEO of Red Carpet Green Dress</span><br /> <br /> “It’s mandatory listening to the point where it should be curriculum. And I always advocate for teaching people about how clothes are made - that they come from trees and farms and rivers and lakes and hands. But I think the other part is that we need to educate people about the systems that exist within the industry - not just the products and how they’re made.”<br /> <br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">REBECCA BURGESS, Founder of Fibershed</span><br /> <br /> “Our culture is so superficial right now around the conversations around race. And I think what The Root did is - it literally rooted in the variances between those of us who have been in migration patterns that just keep going, those of us who have been more rooted in place, experiences of socio-economic variation … there’s just so much that’s involved that’s so intersectional - I like that you gave space for those intersections!”<br /> <br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">KELSEY SABO, Marketing Manager, Sustainability at MATE</span><br /> <br /> “Our biggest key takeaways … having a better idea of how that white washed narrative has not been getting to the reality that sustainability at its core has been advocated for by the BIPOC community since far before