A Christmas Confession – I’m Taking an Eco-Holiday From It All (and So Are My Kids)
Confession time: this year, I don’t want to buy my kids anything for Christmas. Big one, right? Okay, let me soften that just a bit. I have bought a few…
Consumerism
The Explosion of Choices
Barack Obama wore only blue and grey suits during his tenure in the White House, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs sport the same clothes day after day. When rational individuals…
True Cost
A week back while I sat in the car waiting for my father, outside the branch of a commercial bank, I noticed a young man walking on the pavement. He…
How consumption is the core of the climate change problem, and the decline in climate activism
Looking back at the climate change movements for the past couple of decades, it is easier to notice the role of governments and corporations of the Industrial era, in triggering…
Reducing Consumption And Local Exchange Better Than “Sustainable Consumption”
While it is clear that global trade play a major role as a driver of destruction of biodiversity there is no way “consumers” in the US or other developed economies…
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