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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘consumer culture’
- 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 »
- 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 [...]
- confused this Earth Day?
Posted in environmentalism, policy, political action, tagged consumer culture, corporations, eco-anxiety, energy, food, global warming, health, pollution, resources, water on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What, exactly, is the world coming to? How worried, precisely, should we be about the state of our climate, our energy system, our food supplies, our water, the air we breath? What really is — or might soon — be the problem with any of these?
It’s hard to keep track and easy to [...]
- why we can’t shop ourselves to happiness
Posted in consumer culture, religion, tagged addiction, consumer culture on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s good to see critiques of consumer capitalism getting more common and attracting more attention.
Here’s a smart analysis of the idea that consumer cultures reproduce — indeed require — addictions. In talking about Sally Erickson’s 2007 documentary What a Way To Go: Life at The End of Empire, writer Charles Shaw says:
industrial civilization — [...]
- more on consumptive parents
Posted in consumer culture, parenting, tagged consumer culture, economics, parenting on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Salon has an interview this weekend with Pamela Paul, author of the new book, “Parenting, Inc.” It’s a must read for anyone interested in the consumer culture of affluent Western parenting.
Paul tells Salon:
“I think that we have professionalized parenting, and in a consumer society that becomes translated into buying a lot of things. Parents [...]
- economists get smart to human behavior
Posted in economics, tagged consumer culture, economics on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mainstream economics is built on a convenient untruth: that humans act rationally when it comes to money.
Over the last couple of decades, however, behavioral economists have been showing how that’s simply not always the case. In making many of our financial decisions (and we’re talking significant ones like which car to buy, where to [...]
time for some product endorsements
Posted in what we're about, tagged products, waste, amish, gaiam, lehmans, consumer culture on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One issue EarthQuaker cares a lot about is our collective consumption of material objects — especially the kind that get lumped together in the category ‘products.’ How we think of, purchase, use and discard the objects that are sold to us commercially is — after all — a fundamental determinant of our impact on [...]
