Tag: Consumerism - Page 9
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Simpler Living May Make Us Happier, But Happiness is Not Enough
This might be the best thing I have read in a long, long time. Pat Kane over at The Guardian has been thinking a lot about the connection between consumerism, sustainability, happiness
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10 Wacky (and Mostly Wasteful) Royal Wedding Souvenirs (Slideshow)
In the market for a royal PEZ dispenser?
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10 Wacky (and Mostly Wasteful) Royal Wedding Souvenirs
In the market for a royal PEZ dispenser? The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton -- set for this Friday, April 29 -- has inspired dozens of trinkets, tchotckeys, and souvenirs of varying usefulness, quality, and taste, from cheesy mugs and ugly
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NY Times Says Green Sales Are Down, But Misses the Real Point
The New York Times has a story today about how the recession has caused consumers to stop buying green products, citing plummeting sales of mainstream brands' green products as a sign that "consumers' love affair"
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Mainstream America Unmoved By Green Marketing
Green marketing messages are falling on deaf ears, with most of Americans completely ignoring the eco-angle of the ads. That's according to a new study Ogilvy Earth.
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CraigsEasy Is An Awesome Way to Search for Stuff on Craigslist
Craigslist is a major resource in buying or trading used goods, and this might be my new favorite tool for helping me shop second hand. Insead of searching item by item, you can search by glancing through just the images, thanks to a simple
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Everyday Environmentalism Connects The Dots Between Policy & Personal Action (Book Review)
Compared to some of the other books that come across TreeHugger's virtual desk for review Everyday Environmentalism: Law, Nature & Individual Behavior is a bit wonkier than other titles. Which for its intended audience is wholly appropriate. Author Jason
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IKEA Confuses Shoppers, Encourages Clutter, and Exploits Workers
It has been a hard week for IKEA in both the mainstream print and the internet media. There are many things to love about the company that made good modern design affordable and desirable, but I have often complained of what I call
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Battle Over BPA in Baby Bottles Continues: Oregon May Be Next State to Ban It
As a mom, I know it's not always easy to breastfeed. It's certainly my preference, but sometimes you just need to feed with a bottle. The problem?
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Will There be Any Fish Left by 2050?
Many TreeHugger readers are already familiar with the concept of peak fish -- but even those that are may not want to ask themselves this question: Will there be any fish left in our oceans in 2050? Jonathan M. Gitlin delves into the depressing topic
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Why Chinese Go to England to Buy Shoes Made in China
Image credit: Elliott Brown, used under Creative Commons license. Terracycle once sang the praises of intelligent globalization, and from kite-powered ships to the return of the airship, we've seen plenty of ways that international travel and commerce
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Styrofoam Never Beats Reusable Cups
The GOP's politically-motivated move to disband the Democrat's biodegradable packaging and composting program in the House of Representatives -- and replace said packaging with disposable Styrofoam -- drew
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Fair Trade Fortnight Says Show Off Your Label (Video)
Everyone from Starbucks to Cadbury's chocolate seems to be going Fair Trade—so as Fair Trade Fortnight kicks off, it seems a fitting time to celebrate this movement for more ethical and equitable
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Americans Use 11,000 Watts to Live
Geoffrey West, a distinguished theoretical physicist, states in a New York Times
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Earth Will be "Unrecognizable" by 2050
A lot has changed in the last 40 years, hasn't it? From the rise of personal computers and the Internet, to tubeless toilet-paper and carnivorous clocks -- the world today hardly resembles the one seen in faded photos of people with
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Would Millennium Consumption Goals Help Rich Nations Reduce Their Eco-Impact?
I'll assume you know what the Millennium Development Goals are and assume the same about how the 'developed' world consumes natural resources is grossly in excess of what is ecologically sustainable and equitably
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Peak Oil in 2012? Saudi Arabia's Oil Overestimated by 40%, Wikileaks Reveals
Looks like peak oil might be even closer than we thought -- the most recent Wikileaks cable released by the Guardian has revealed that US diplomats are convinced that Saudi Arabia has overestimated its vaunted oil
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2011 Super Bowl Ads: The Green, the Bad & the Ugly
Yet another Super Bowl has come and gone, and the one thing most of us will remember about the whole bloated, noisy event will be ... a cute kid with a Darth Vader mask using the force on a Passat. Super Bowl ads, for all their obnoxiousness and
