Kelly Okamura

Filipinos abroad send $2 billion+/month back home. Social entrepreneurs create help the poor by giving more than a hand-down. Global markets can help in conscious consumption.

Now that Canada is mid-way through the sesquicentennial Confederation year parade, goodergoods asks the question -- do our souvenirs represent Canadian values?

A colourful world has a cost. Kelly Okamura explore dyes at the Chromatic Geography exhibit in Toronto with Kathy Hattori, Founder of Botanical Colours in Seattle.

Kelly Okamura has a birthday and reflects on when to keep her ideas to herself and when to let them fly. (Hint: in this podcast, she does the latter.)

Kelly Okamura attends Design Forward, a new sustainable fashion competition and finds she wants more than a passing glance from a conscious runway show.

What to buy for the important woman in your life? Change-making a commercialized holiday that marks a reverent personal day for mums and sons and daughters.

Is the call for a Fashion Revolution ignored by ignorance if consumers don't know they are part of fashion? Do people care who made their clothes?

Time pressed consumers want easy answers to the complicated question of what makes a garment that matters.

Who knew that an exhibit about whales could have a fashion component? And, blue news from Toronto’s fashion week. Ethical/eco-fashion on the runway.

Sharing memories of bargain buying at Honest Ed's, North America's first discount retailer, and the man behind the iconic retail experience.