What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black

I’m Miranda Black, the DeGrowth Diva. In this podcast I talk about my real life Degrowth journey with retailers, businesses and fashion influencers. How do we reduce our carbon footprint in retail? What alternatives are there...what are some easy solutions we can realistically apply to our lives without sacrificing style?Turns out, there are tons of lower carbon choices right here in Canada. Shopping is hard. Acquiring and ethically disposing all our STUFF has never been so complex and fraught with issues from sustainable fashion to garment worker justice to shopping local to zero waste! Who best to get advice about shopping than a former retailer. What's This Place? goes behind the Clicks and Mortar of small businesses at the forefront of the DeGrowth movement to discuss shopping, retailing, caring for and rehoming all your inventory. What’s This Place? Let’s go inside and find out.

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What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black

R.A.I.D.

December 07, 2021 • Miranda Black Ramon Perez • Season 1 • Episode 8

For over 40 years, a yellow and red awning has hung over a seemingly deserted storefront. No one ever seemed to go in or out.
In 2018, R.A.I.D. took over this infamous and mysterious storefront. It was like a time capsule from the 1980s: the bar, the ticket booth window, even the disco dance floor hadn't been touched for four decades.
Ramon Perez is not a retailer. He's a successful illustrator, a cartoonist...he draws for Archie comics and the amazing Spider-Man!...he had a burning desire to turn this deserted dilapidated eyesore into a communal artist space. So who is Ramon Perez and what is R.A.I.D.?

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