The Good Life Lab: Living a Decommodified Life
By Wendy Jehanara Tremayne, Storey Publishing
We realized that instead of making the goods we needed to live, we bought them.
Tag: Consumerism
Information, preferences, knowledge and belief
By Brian Davey, Feasta
For billions of people nature and the eco-system have become “out of sight and out of mind”.
Our daily conveniences are somebody else’s suffering
By Mari Jyväsjärvi Stuart, Transition Voice
What would it look like to consume and use resources in a way that does not look the other way?
Cool capitalism: changing the principles of protest
By Dick Pountain, Open Democracy
It's 45 years since the wave of youth-led rebellions that followed Paris's May Events in 1968, and the anniversary has reawakened "culture war" debates...
Happiness and the New Simplicity: The Living Room Revolution of Community
By Cecile Andrews, Center for a New American Dream
For years I’ve talked to people about voluntary simplicity, and for years people have responded with: “What’s that thing you’re involved in—that self-deprivation movement?”
The high price of materialism
By Eric Krasnauskas, Science Pope
A war on climate change is a war on materialism, plain and simple.
The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism—and the birth of a happy alternative
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
You and I consume; we are consumers. The global economy is set up to enable us to do what we innately want to do—buy, use, discard, and buy some more.