- All-Consuming Passion - Waking up from the American Dream
Statistics, compiled by the New Road Map Foundation, describing USA consumption patterns and their effects on personal lives and the environment. Advocates a cultural trend toward "low-consumption, high-fulfillment" lifestyles, also known as "voluntary simplicity."
- Being a Ghost - Doing Very Little - Helps the Environment
So concerned about over-consumption, David has become a ghost (recognised, but having little effect), living on under US$900 per year while buying everything and sharing housing. It's a real-life economics experiment.
- Buy Nothing Christmas
National initiative started by Canadian Mennonites to de-commercialize Christmas and re-design a Christian lifestyle that is richer in meaning, smaller in impact upon the earth, and greater in giving to people less-privileged.
- Center for a New American Dream
National non-profit organization challenging the "more is better" definition of the American dream.
- Consumers Anonymous
Promote innovative alternatives to consumerism, for people seeking better ways to live with the Earth.
- Ethical-shopping List
A discussion list for people anywhere to discuss the ethics and practicalities of sustainable consumption. Academic, individual and organizational membership. Subscription by e-mail and/or web.
- How Can We Change Consumerism?
Aims to convince people of the case for Anticonsumerism, where people need not feel they must constantly buy new items and use up the world's resources.
- Mall-aise
Offbeat look at shopping centers in America.
- Never Enough
Offers a critical look at overconsumption in the first world, which it asserts helps create poverty elsewhere and environmental damage.
- Overconsumption: A Scientific View
Is there really any evidence that the world could be on the edge of an environmental breakdown due to the overconsumption and misuse of resources?
- Quick Guide to Ethical Shopping
A brief run-down of the major issues involved in shopping with a conscience, and some help in identifying them. No shopping at this site, but links to useful informational sites.
- StopSUVs.org
Attacks SUV high fuel consumption, parodies SUV ads, and attacks the war in Iraq and really about oil.
- Trade and Environment Database
Inventory for cases of trade and environment. From these cases, TED is also a point of context for research and discussion of trade and environment topics. Papers, virtual conferences.
- What Is Anticonsumerism?
Puts anticonsumerism in the context of "green consumerism" and "ethical consumerism".
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