Tag: Conspicuous Consumption - Page 5
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Wretched Excess Dept: Car Condos
Only in LA; People are paying the cost of a small single family home for condos for cars. According to the LA Times, Nicholas Patin, owner of the $30-million-plus project, envisions a high-end
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Wretched Excess Dept.: The View from the Onion
We talk often about how difficult it is for the super- rich to be green, and how unsustainable having five houses is, and how the gap between the rich and the poor is increasing. The Onion
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Quote of the Day: Bill McKibben on McMansions
The average size of new U.S. homes has more than doubled over the past couple of generations, even as the number of people residing in them has shrunk by nearly a full person. The last glory days of the now-fading construction boom were the most insane
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Just What We Needed Dept.: A $499 LED Flashlight
OK, it is pretty and we do love our LEDs. It is an "Ultra compact (pinky-sized), mini flashlight that establishes a whole new class of illumination tools: luxury flashlights. The Titan is the world's only fully variable-output flashlight, with an
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Wretched Excess Dept: Aspen Vacation Homes
It is not surprising to find that vacation homes in Aspen use more energy when occupied than the average Aspen home of 3,272 square feet; what is really surprising is that they are vacant on average 277 days per year and still generate 43.8 tons of
