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Consumerism

Stranger in a strange land

December 15, 2020September 12, 2013 by Mary Odum

Everything pulses, and pulses maximize the flow of power in systems. I pulsed in a big way this year.

Categories Society Tags Consumerism, limits to growth, neoliberal ideology Leave a comment

The Good Life Lab: Living a Decommodified Life

December 15, 2020August 22, 2013 by Wendy Jehanara Tremayne

We realized that instead of making the goods we needed to live, we bought them.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags Consumerism, maker culture, personal resilience, The Good Life Lab 1 Comment

Information, preferences, knowledge and belief

December 15, 2020August 12, 2013 by Brian Davey

For billions of people nature and the eco-system have become “out of sight and out of mind”.

Categories Economy Tags advertising, Consumerism, information, traditional indigenous knowledge Leave a comment

Our daily conveniences are somebody else’s suffering

December 15, 2020August 2, 2013 by Mari Jyväsjärvi Stuart

What would it look like to consume and use resources in a way that does not look the other way?

Categories Society Tags Consumerism, relocalization, Reskilling Leave a comment

Cool capitalism: changing the principles of protest

December 15, 2020July 26, 2013 by Dick Pountain

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…

Categories Society Tags capitalism, Consumerism, youth protest Leave a comment

Happiness and the New Simplicity: The Living Room Revolution of Community

December 15, 2020July 25, 2013 by Cecile Andrews

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?”

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags Consumerism, conversation, voluntary simplicity Leave a comment

The high price of materialism

December 15, 2020July 25, 2013 by Eric Krasnauskas

A war on climate change is a war on materialism, plain and simple.

Categories Economy Tags climate change, Consumerism, human relationships, materialism Leave a comment

The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism—and the birth of a happy alternative

December 15, 2020July 24, 2013 by Richard Heinberg

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.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy Tags Consumerism, Gross Domestic Product, Gross National Happiness 1 Comment
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