ReFashion Workshop
The A-Z on eco fashion and conscious living.
ReFashion Workshop is the show for fashion lovers, conscious consumers, and everyday people who sense that something is deeply wrong with the way we buy, wear, and discard clothing — but don't yet know what to do about it. Backed by lead scientists in climate change and toxicology, NGOs, environmental activists, and policymakers, each episode delivers honest facts alongside practical tools to help you build a more authentic, intentional, and pleasurable relationship with what you wear.
Your host, Courtney Barriger, is an award-winning eco fashion artist, designer, author, and spiritual voyager with twenty years inside the fashion industry. Her apparel line Holding Court is featured in Vanity Fair and GQ, won the Sustainability Award at the iHollywood Film Festival, and earned her the title "It Girl" on Oprah's WE tv network. She has written investigative culture pieces for the LA Times, been honored as "The Future of Fashion" by United Nations non-profit Fashion Fights Poverty, and serves as a guest lecturer at universities across the U.S. and internationally.
Courtney is also a journalist and seasoned whistleblower — someone who has taken personal risks to expose uncomfortable truths about power and industry. She brings that same unflinching honesty to every conversation about fast fashion, human trafficking in the apparel supply chain, toxicity in our fabrics, and the science of sustainable living.
This isn't a guilt trip. It's a mindset shift — one practice at a time.
Whether you're just beginning to question your closet or you're ready to become a steward of the Earth, ReFashion Workshop meets you where you are and walks with you toward something better.
Subscribe. Refashion your life. Save the planet while you're at it.
ReFashion Workshop
Breaking Barriers with Laughter with Ethan Brown of The Sweaty Penguin
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Humor makes us human, it simplifies complex ideas and makes just about anything relatable. That is why I’m delighted to host scientist and comedian, a man after Jon Oliver’s own heart, Ethan Brown of the Climate Change Podcast The Sweaty Penguin. We are talking about some of the deep ironies of the eco fashion world, and getting into Biden’s congressional win for Climate Policy.
Ethan Brown is a recent graduate of Boston University, where he studied Environmental Analysis & Policy and Film & Television. Ethan was never outdoorsy growing up, but after studying climate change, he felt compelled to use his years of comedy writing experience as Editor-in-Chief of his high school and college satire publications—The Gorilla and The Bunion—to communicate environmental issues in an entertaining way. With some free time during early quarantine, Ethan launched The Sweaty Penguin Podcast. Since then, the podcast has released over 100 episodes, amassed over 19,000 downloads, showcased the work of professors from eleven countries, won six grants, became a PBS partner, and was honored at the 2022 Webby Awards. Through The Sweaty Penguin, Ethan aims to make climate change less overwhelming, less politicized, and more fun. Ethan has also served as Managing Editor of BU’s student-run earth & environment magazine The Emerald Review and currently serves as a Production Assistant for PBS/WNET’s climate initiative Peril and Promise. His favorite TV show is “The Good Place,” and he is passionately opposed to pineapple on Pizza.