Tag: Conspicuous Consumption - Page 4
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Wretched Excess Dept: A £250,000 Dog House
But hey, with the US$ so strong, thats only $ 382,469 and it is for two dogs, so that is a lot less per dog. So what if people are hungry or losing their jobs, let them build doghouses. Inside:
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Gasoline in Wine Bottles? So Stupid it Just Might Work!
I mean, gas is such a....commodity. There is regular and premium, but one is pretty much like another, and the costs are pretty much the same wherever you go. Water used to be like that, a commodity, but as Elizabeth Royte notes in Bottlemania, as one
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Man Goes a Week Without Spending a Cent
Unless you graze off your own farmland, you're homeless, or you're under 12, lasting a week without spending a single cent sounds like a Herculean impossibility. Still, one man, who is none of the above, gave extreme
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Conspicuous Consumption, Conscious Consumption, and the Fulfillment Curve
Where should shopping fit in to our sustainable lifestyles? The latest bulletin from the David Report delves into consuming and where to draw the line between conspicuous consumption, conscious consumption, and the sociological and psychological
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Eco-Guilt The New Plague Among Enlightened Parents
Here's the first clue that you are a stressed-out eco-mom or eco-dad: you secretly find yourself spending an entire weekend trying to clear your kiddies' rooms of all the cheap plastic toys and gadgetry, only to find that a few weeks later a lot of it
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The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part Two)
In part two of our interview with Yvon Chouinard, the maverick businessman talks about politics and the irony of living simply in a consumer society. He also rebuffs his brand's "Pata-Gucci" reputation and explains why he's started pouring cheap
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The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part One)
The founder of Patagonia started out when he was little more than a teenager, selling his home-forged climbing hardware to "dirtbagger" mountaineers like himself. Although all he really wanted to do was travel and climb, he had a knack for
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Crisis? What Crisis? I've Got My Mobile McMansion
We love the idea of mobile living, but just as in regular housing, less is more.
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Annals of Great Ideas: Snow Caves in Texas
Joni Mitchell nailed it in Big Yellow Taxi: "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'till its gone." at which point you just have to fake it. As out of place as a water park in Phoenix, they are going to build, in Texas, "a
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Francis Ford Coppola Produces Garbage
TreeHugger has been appalled by PET bottled minis before, sold to yobs at soccer games so that they can't bean the players with heavier bottles. One would think that someone like Francis Ford Coppola, with the brains to make classics like Apocalypse
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Survey: How Are You Celebrating Buy Nothing Day?
It's Black Friday, the biggest US shopping day of the year, when stores finally get into the black. Next is Cyber Monday when the geeks who slept through Friday get around to shopping for bargains. It is also Buy Nothing Day, "A 24 hour moratorium on
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Wall Street Journal Attacks the Rich Again
The all-new socially conscious, conserving, almost TreeHuggerish Wall Street Journal covers the Palm Beach waterfront again, finding all of the water scofflaws joining Nelson Peltz in the pool. They write "Palm Beach's water world highlights the drain on
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The Rich Are Different From You and Me. They Use A Lot More Water
Nobody is surprised when TreeHugger is appalled by wasting water, but when the Wall Street Journal starts complaining you know the issue has gone mainstream. Robert Frank writes in the Journal about Nelson Peltz and how:
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Antilia Update: Not Necessarily the Biggest Monster Home
Ralph Johnson of Perkins + Will tell Architectural Record that "There's been a
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Wretched Excess Dept.: a Georgian Consumes a Niagara
Instead of Governor Sonny Perdue praying for rain, or any of the great ideas Martin Lewis has at Huffpo, he might have been better off having a few quiet words with Chris G. Carlos, a homeowner who used 440,000 gallons of water in September, or about
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Wretched Excess Dept: 727 Turned into Limo
So many ways to waste fuel and money. How did we miss out on this eBay auction that just ended: A Boeing 727 that was converted into a limousine, complete with [sic on the typos] "Living room Fisrt Class with lighting and wrap around seating. Then
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Strange Waters: Woof Water For Dogs
We have seen it before with K9 water; now we find that what every dog wants is Woof Water.
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We Won't Stay at Claridges Any More.
Well, this TreeHugger has knocked Claridges off the list of hotels in London where we will stay. And not because rooms start at a thousand bucks a night; it's the water. In an era when everyone should be concerned about their carbon footprint,
