Tag: Consumerism - Page 2
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Neiman Marcus' $100k Chicken Coop is a Little 'Eggcessive'
Do you love your chickens enough to buy them a $100k chicken coop?
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Amazon's Quidsi Launches Eco-Friendly Shopping Site
Vine.com will only feature products that meet green standards in areas like sustainability, materials, energy efficiency and more.
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Bristol Prints Own Money, Including Banksy-notes and Eco Themes, to Spur Local Buying
The British city of Bristol hopes to promote local business with their own high-security scrip featuring local designs
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Couch Potato Lifestyle Kills 5 Million Worldwide Every Year, Study Says
Physical inactivity kills 5 million every year as a result of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and obesity.
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In Defense of Sodastream, If Not So Much Kool-Aid
Is Sodastream's partnership with Kool-Aid ideal from an environmental perspective? Not really. Is it a major strike against Sodastream's prime purpose of waste reduction? Not hardly.
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The Story of Change Explores Why Shopping Cannot Save Us
We will never change the world by focusing on individual lifestyle choices. Annie Leonard's new video looks at how real change happens.
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May We Look Back on San Diego's Mighty Firework Fail with Wonder
San Diego blew up 20 minutes worth of fireworks at once.
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Generation Awake Offers Virtual Resource Efficiency Guide
The European Commission's online resource efficiency guide helps consumers make better choices for a better world.
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How I (Continually Have To) Tame the Apple Upgrade Monkey
Everytime Apple announces a new product my consumer monkey brain starts telling me I neeeeed to upgrade. I want that new shiny MacBook goodness. Here's how I quiet that monkey.
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US Bottled Water Sales Hit New Record High in 2011
How did buying individual portions of water in plastic bottles become an acceptable alternative to clean and available public tap water?
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Swap-O-Matic Vending Machine Lets You Trade But Not Buy
A novel vending machine lets users take and leave objects, but no money is involved.
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5 Ways Cell Phones are Helping Environmentalism
Cell phones are now in the hands of more than half the world's population, which has made them one of the most accessible and effective tools for environmentalism.
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Expect 2°C Temperature Rise by Mid-Century, Club of Rome Report Says
On a more positive note, the report also notes that population growth with stabilize sooner than expected, at about 8 billion people by 2042.
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You Do Need to Help a Documentary Called "Do I Need This?"
We get a ton of requests to help publicize a Kickstarter push for a project, so many in fact that I've had a near blanket policy of not writing about any of them. Today I'll violate that rule and tell you about one of them.
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The Week in Pictures: The Freaky Future of City Driving, "Supertrees" Take over Singapore, and More
The lightweight Renault Twizy could shake up the automotive world, 18 biometric "supertrees" are turning Singapore into a lively forest, and more.
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Pebble Watch Raises Over $4 Million on Kickstarter, Proves We Still Like Wrist Watches
We thought the days of wristwatches were over, but the designers of a "smart" watch have turned over a new pebble and prove they're still popular.
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Ask the Experts: What's the Greatest Resource Scarcity We Now Face?
What's the most critical resource constraint we now face and what's creating that scarcity? Janet Larsen from the Earth Policy Institute answers.
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Consumerism Leads to Depression, Study Finds
In other words, those most prone to trying to buy happiness in the form of stuff are probably more likely to experience an emotion quite the opposite.
