We managed to avoid shopping for the last two days. But then we also missed the fact that yesterday was officially Buy Nothing Day. It’s a much bigger day in the UK, it seems.
The American campaign runs the day before — the so called ‘Black Friday’ after Thanksgiving. Even if there’s a reason for this [...]
Archive for November, 2008
- did you shop on Buy Nothing Day?
Posted in consumer culture, political action, tagged Buy Nothing Day on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
- ‘culdesactivism’ — engaging at micro-neighborhood level
Posted in environmentalism, political action, tagged action, culdesactivism, environmentalism on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A great story about the accidental birth of a grass roots environmental activist and a great new coinage — culdesactivism — from James Glave today in Salon.
- guerilla gardening is just like buying a new car!
Posted in consumer culture, eco-marketing, environmentalism, gardening, tagged consumer culture, eco-marketing, green living on November 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Or so Honda would have you believe. Their newest Lexus campaign hitchhikes upon positive environmental developments in the world and links them to the latest Lexus hybrids.
An ad for the campaign — built around the slogan ‘Good things are happening today’ — in this month’s Wired features four newspaper clippings. Two herald advances in environmental [...]
- hurray for frugality’s new-found hipness!
Posted in consumer culture, economics, peace, tagged frugality on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every US newspaper, magazine or website with anything resembling a ‘home’ section these days has been suddenly won over, it seems, to the cause of frugality. And of course it meshes nicely with the living-green trend they’ve all been pushing for a while now.
We welcome this, naturally, but wonder if the virtues of reducing, reusing [...]
- an economics of regeneration
Posted in consumer culture, economics, policy, tagged consumer culture, economics, regeneration on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“We must restructure our economy from a foundation built on consumption to regeneration and maintenance,” say Rebekah and Stephen Hren in the Huffington Post this week.
It’s a plea for ‘ecological economics’ — and one we EarthQuakers pretty much share.
Any hope it will come with the Obama administration? Not a huge amount, but we might move [...]
- will environmentalism lead to less drug abuse?
Posted in environmentalism, leisure, plants and animals, tagged cocaine, environmentalism, rain forests on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a great reason not to do drugs — it’s bad for the environment! And here’s Gawker’s take on the idea:
Yuppie cokeheads, stop snorting massive rails for the sake of the endangered tree frogs! That’s the new anti-drug message coming out of the UK. And it just might work!
Could that be the one thing that [...]
- why frogs are disappearing: toxic pesticide mixes
Posted in plants and animals, tagged frogs, pesticides on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Ten of the world’s most popular pesticides can decimate amphibian populations when mixed together even if the concentration of the individual chemicals are within limits considered safe, according to new research,”
reports Science Daily today. It makes complete sense and speaks to the need for far more comprehensive testing of chemical treatments of all kinds before [...]
