Directory: Society: Issues: Environment: Consumerism (23)
See Also:
- Business: Investing: Socially Responsible
- Science: Environment: Sustainability
- Shopping: Niche: Green Living
- Society: Politics: Green
All-Consuming Passion - Waking up from the American Dream - Statistics, compiled by the New Road Map Foundation, describing USA consumption patterns and their effects on personal lives and the environment. Advocates a cultural trend toward "low-consumption, high-fulfillment" lifestyles, also known as "voluntary simplicity."Center for a New American Dream - National non-profit organization challenging the "more is better" definition of the American dream.
Mall-aise - Offbeat look at shopping centers in America.
Buy Nothing Christmas - National initiative started by Canadian Mennonites to de-commercialize Christmas and re-design a Christian lifestyle that is richer in meaning, smaller in impact upon the earth, and greater in giving to people less-privileged.
Being a Ghost - Doing Very Little - Helps the Environment - So concerned about over-consumption, David has become a ghost (recognised, but having little effect), living on under US$900 per year while buying everything and sharing housing. It's a real-life economics experiment.
Trade and Environment Database - Inventory for cases of trade and environment. From these cases, TED is also a point of context for research and discussion of trade and environment topics. Papers, virtual conferences.
Consumers Anonymous - Promote innovative alternatives to consumerism, for people seeking better ways to live with the Earth.
Consumer Citizenship - European effort, based out of Hedmark University College in Norway, to get consumers to actively participate in developing and improving society by considering ethical issues, diversity of perspectives, global processes and future conditions on a global as well as regional, national and local scale when securing one's own personal needs and well-being.
Apoplectic Press - Subversive political and anti-Christmas greeting cards, free graphic images and GIF animations, original protest music and resources for activists and other misfits.
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