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?
Tag: Consumerism
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.