By: Trace Weaver Net Impact held its second meeting in the Food Systems series, and its third to last general meeting of the year, on Monday, April 11th!
By: Trace Weaver On Sunday, April 10th, Net Impact continued to help out the local community by volunteering at the The Homeward Bound 5K.
By: Trace Weaver To start off the month of April, Net Impact held its first meeting in the Food Systems series on Monday, April 4th. This will be the final three-part series of meetings for the semester, which will take place over the first three Mondays of April.
By: Trace Weaver Net Impact held its final meeting in the Apparel Industry series on Monday, March 28th. For this meeting, we were joined by three experts on the apparel industry for a panel discussion.
By: Trace Weaver Net Impact held its second meeting in the apparel industry series on Monday, March 21st. For this meeting, we watched most of the documentary called The True Cost, which looks at some of the problems with the fashion industry today. Chief among those is the degrading working conditions of factory workers in Asia. The buildings being used to make our clothes overseas are oftentimes not safe to work in. The world was given a reminder of this a few years ago when over 900 workers were killed in the collapse of a sweatshop in Bangladesh.
In addition to concerns about worker safety, there are also a lot of problems when it comes to worker pay in the sweatshops. Most workers earn just a couple dollars a day and barely have enough water to bathe. This begs the question as to whether we need to take a stand against cheap clothing made overseas in these conditions in order to force a change in the industry. As the film points out, the majority of clothes US citizens wore in the 1960s were made in the United States, compared to just 3% today. |