Tag: Consumerism - Page 15
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Local Food, Motherfu$k*r: 10 Awesome Ad Campaigns Addressing Food's Carbon Footprint
Around the world, the local food movement is gaining momentum, and anyone from celebrity chefs to simply conscious people are trying to stick to the 100 Mile Diet. Why? Because it is healthier for you, and healthier for the planet. Local food means big
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Moving Beyond Oil: Restoring Meaning to the Word "Necessity"
What things can you absolutely not live without? Pause for a second and really think about that. You can't live without it. What did you come up with? This question when applied to our lives and, more importantly, the
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Is Overpopulation a Green Myth?
We hear it all the time, and have heard it since Malthus: That overpopulation is the primary cause of the world's environmental ills. It makes sense in simple logical terms: The more people there are consuming natural resources,
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Connecting the Dots: Population Growth, Consumerism & Biodiversity Loss Tangled Together
A number of news items in the past two days worth connecting: A new report on the financial cost of biodiversity loss, tiger populations declining 97% in the past 20 years, and Fred
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Dita Von Teese Showers in Perrier, Promotes Bottled Water
Using celebrities to sell unsustainable products like bottled water is nothing new. From Ellen Degeneres to Jennifer Aniston, celebrities hype the bad habit. The latest, though, is sure to spark a little more attention.
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Growing Consumer Consumption a Bigger Problem Than Growing Population: Fred Pearce
We've covered this one on a number of occasions but with World Population Day just passed, it's worth bring up again: In a new op-ed published at Grist and elsewhere, Fred Pearce argues that all the focus on population
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Are Manufacturers to Blame For Consumers Passing Over Greener Gadgets?
Electronics manufacturers have been giving a lot of lip service the past few years to the greener side of their gadgets. By reducing energy consumption of devices, beginning a phase out of toxic chemicals, reducing
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Marketing Junk Food to Kids Could Soon be Illegal
It's a topic that sparks heated debate, and one that we've tackled here before: Should corporations be allowed to market unhealthy food to children? When a county in California banned McDonald's Happy Meals, it caused a veritable uproar.
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New EcoLabel Index Sorts Out Validity, Accountability & Transparency of Green Certification Programs
The sheer proliferation of eco-labeling, certification and recognition programs, covering everything from food, to clothing, to energy and more, is bewildering--even to people who follow this stuff professionally. It's hard
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Ending the Consumption Addiction
We are on a race to nowhere. Consumption drives our economy (watch www.storyofstuff.com to see why). We measure our success by consumption (how much we spend). Global consumption is equal to the cumulative GDP of all
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What If We Abolished Income Taxes & Replaced Them With 'Stuff Taxes'?
Over at Green Biz there's an interesting article that proposes a way to address the environmental impact of the goods we buy, as well as realign our tax code to stop penalizing the very thing we want to encourage. What if
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Walmart's Sustainability Initiatives Explained
At Walmart, sustainability continues to make us a better company by reducing waste, lowering costs, driving
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Oh, Shiny! 77% of iPhone 4 Purchases Are Upgrades From Previous Models
It is no wonder Gazelle, the gadget buy-back company, has seen a 1000% increase in their rates of iPhone trade-ins this year. Every year that Apple puts out a new iPhone, a higher percentage of the consumers are
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In Defense of "Eco" Fast Food
A pretty scathing critique of "eco-restaurants" recently ran in Newseek. Called Your Carbon Foodprint, the article honed in on the now-fully formed trend of eateries capitalizing on environmentally conscious values to appeal to a growing market -- and,
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Feather of Extinct Bird Fetches Huge Price At Auction
A very rare feather, the white-tipped tail feather of an extinct New Zealand bird called the huia, sold at auction last week for a whopping $5,880. The huia was last seen in 1907, which makes the tail feather understandably precious
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Let the Crowds Determine Green Ratings
The wisdom of crowds is urgently needed in assessing the greenness of products and companies. Today, if you want to validate the social and environmental quality of a product or company, you have a plethora of
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How to Travel Without Cash: Travel Tips from the Moneyless Man
From dumpster diving, to living without cash for a year, Mark Boyle—aka The Moneyless Man—has certainly inspired his fair share of debates around consumerism, sustainability, and the potential for living
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Australian Anglican Church Says Population Growth May Break Commandment 'Thou Shall Not Steal'
In what surely would be a hugely controversial move if had happened in the United States, the Australia's Anglican Church has come out saying that the nation
