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Cuff Links made from Baseball Stadiums!
2008-06-09 15:00:00 Baseball Stadiums are being upgraded and retouched here and there all of the time, so what happens to all of these bits and pieces that have been removed? At one time they have been thrown away, but now these materials are recycled into some great gifts, like these cuff links. Features: MATERIALS: sterling silver, reclaimed wood NOTE: ...
Britney downsizes her cars
2008-06-06 17:00:00 Its great when you see celebrities cutting back on their huge cars and excessive travelling, take Britney Spears she has been known to drive around in great big SUV?s and other large vehicles. But here you can see that she has made an effort to cut back on the fuel that her vehicles use by turning ...
Collection of recycled artwork
2008-06-06 16:21:00 Go the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York you may be in for a little surprise in what you find there. For it may not be as contemporary as you first may of thought. The work on display has been made by students from various Universities. But one who student from the Appalachian State ...
Table made from recycled materials
2008-06-06 15:00:00 It would seem that you are able to made useful items out of virtually any material, and in the case of these tables it is clear that it is true. These tables have been designed by Artists For Humanity to use reclaimed materials and present them in a way that looks really cool. The main material ...
The recycler wine bottle bag
2008-06-05 17:00:00 This is a bag that has been specifically designed to someone with the recycling duties as the bag has been given some dividers which keep the bottles from clinking together and smashing, which will not do the recycling scheme any good at all. Its great for using when you take the empties down to the bottle ...
Pillows and cushions made from old clothes
2008-05-30 19:00:00 This is a really novel way of recycling older clothes which have either outlived their usefulness or just do not fit anymore for whatever reason that may be. The clothing has been designed by Ximena Orozco, who has some really great design lines covering baby clothes and accessories, bags and soft furnishings, like these cushions, which ...
Woody Harrelson to go ?Lost? on island
2008-05-29 19:34:00 The eco friendly actor Woody Harrelson cannot wait for the next break that he gets between filming as he plans to spend forty days on a remote island. But it will not just be the loneliness that will get to him, for he will only drink water and eat nothing for the whole period that ...
Daryl Hannah?s worm bin rocks
2008-05-29 15:00:00 It?s great when a celebrity starts something worth while and Daryl Hannah has been doing just that with the Beautious Bamboo Worm Bin, where making worm fertilizer has become a part of the kitchen, rather than sitting outside in the garden. As this one is in the kitchen it is a lot easier to dispose of ...
McDonalds go eco with coffee
2008-05-28 18:00:00 Those people who love to have a quick coffee in an Australian McDonalds will be pleased to see that very soon there will be a new type of coffee available. This is going to be an eco friendly brand which is grown under strict eco friendly conditions. This is a good move by the Australian branch ...
Beer cans into beer jewellery
2008-05-13 16:00:00 Most cans are quite nice to look at, they are brightly coloured and have some interesting designs on the outside too, so making them into a piece of jewellery would be a sensible move. This is why it is no surprise to find these Beer Can Cuffs from Elsewares. The metal on the tin is very ...
Companies Using Eco-friendly as a Marketing Tool
2008-05-09 19:38:00 Effective business practices today need the proper updates as far as latest trends in marketing and promotion is concerned. Among the leading indicators that can really boost the popularity of most companies and manufacturers today is adding that green certification and awareness that everyone is going crazy about. Let us face it. Even if there ...
Make an apron from old jeans
2008-05-06 18:00:00 The idea behind this is the fact that next week, the 12th May to be precise is National Wear Your Apron Day, so naturally we though that it would be nice if you made your own apron from an old pair of jeans. What you will need for this task: Supplies: Pant leg Bias tape binding 1″ twill tape ...
When eco friendly tastes so nice
2008-05-01 16:00:00 The great thing about living the eco friendly life is that so many things can be considered ?Green? these days, but one thing that could have been over looked is Chocolate. You would have thought that considering all of the transportation that is involved that it could not even be considered as green. However it ...
Try this for Earth Day 08
2008-04-22 18:39:00 One of the biggest problems affecting our planet is over-consumption. Especially prevalent in more affluent countries is the idea that everyone can have everything they can buy even if it is harmful, wasteful, or unnecessary. We have also been taught that progress can only be measured by GDP and that they only way to increase ...
How Rising Gas Prices Could Affect Your Diet
2008-04-17 12:38:00 In an age when American’s are becoming more aware of the importance of a healthy diet, it is really upsetting to see what a huge impact the rising gas prices are having on our nations’ food costs. There are many factors that go into just how the price of gas is effecting our food prices ...
DHL Uses Eco-friendly Bags
2008-04-12 09:19:00 Couriers and packages need to be delivered to various places and normally, the standard of plastic bags have become a cause for concern for eco-friendly standards. DHL, a leading logistics and express courier service has taken this issue by heart and has started to employ the use of eco-friendly courier bags. These new bags are ...
Eco-Sensor Phones Brings Nokia to the Green
2008-04-11 20:58:00 Nokia has added another feather in its cap as far as going green is concerned. Most companies today are trying to figure out a way to go green and Nokia, a known cellular phone giant manufacturer, has just offered the world another dimension towards green living standards by using recycled materials and offering an OLED ...
Sobering up from Consumerism
2008-04-11 02:51:00 I was reading the Gospel of Matthew today and came to the sobering realization that if I were alive at the time of Jesus Christ, I probably would not have been one of his disciples. All Christians today like to think that if we were alive when Jesus walked the earth, we would be the ...
Privatisiation and Consumerism
2008-03-25 22:07:00 Watch this chapter from the documentary “The Corporation” and look around you at what is happening in the Health Service in the Education system, water, waste collection. Also reflect on where you sit on the treadmill by reading this piece on productivity. One reasonable definition of increased personal productivity is creating the ability to do more with ...
By: EastMeath.Org
Jesus Saves, Buddha Recycles: A Spiritual Perspective on Consumerism
2008-03-25 05:35:00 David Loy, a Buddhist scholar, presented a lecture at Vanderbilt University recently describing a spiritual perspective on the challenge of consumerism. There is a video available that is worth...
By: Green Options
Consumerism: Just Don?t Ask Me
2008-03-15 14:53:00 I was supposed to leave Ottawa on Saturday to London, but thanks to a tremendous snowstorm, it didn’t really happen until mid-Sunday (and even then it caused a domino effect of problems and troubles due to tight scheduling and such). I was doing this for work and our corporate travel is actually dealt with through ...
Bling Compensation
2008-03-10 00:44:00 All persons located in the United States who purchased any diamond or diamond jewelry between January 1, 1994 and March 31, 2006 may be eligible for money back from DeBeers. Beginning in 2001, Plaintiffs in several states filed lawsuits against De Beers in state and federal courts alleging that De Beers unlawfully ...
The Active Veil Of Consumerism
2008-03-03 14:02:00 We have a family budget meeting at the end of every month. For February we discussed the good progress we made, when a question came up from our middle child, our 10-year old daughter."If we have $2000 in our Emergency Fund and $3000 saved on taxes, that $5000, right?" "Why can't we use some of that to go to the mall like we used to?"After some chuckles I noticed that others were thinking along the same lines...and probably me too. See when we would get money in before we would allocate some of it for "fun." We would buy something on our list that we had all agreed we wanted. New TV, DVD player, etc.. But not this time.What we were all feeling was the break from the past.Before we would "celebrate" our wins more. We would look forward to bonus as it meant a second Christmas, albeit with more expensive gifts! Although this was an illusion...what I call the active veil of consumerism. Sure we had debt, check out the Pinball machine. No retirement, Trip to Vegas. But every grain of sa...
Mail for Sale
2008-03-02 06:21:00 We have added a new page. “Mail for Sale” (see also tabs above) is a listing of items that you can buy and we will send you in the mail. We will really do them. It will be a sound investment. Jason Dilworth is really fun and creative. He inspires us. (We’ll do Jason for free ...
An Interview With Flexo from Consumerism Commentary
2008-02-28 03:36:00 Recently, I did a brief interview with personal finance blogger, Flexo from Consumerism Commentary. It’s my intention to get to know some of the other personal finance bloggers out there, and I wanted you to get to know them better as well. I don’t see the other bloggers out there as competition, but ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "An Interview With Flexo from Consumerism Commentary", url: "http://www.moneycrashers.com/a-n-interview-with-flexo-from-con-sumerism-commentary/" });
By: Money Crashers
Feb 24, Green consumerism, how we get caught up in the wave of greenwashed
2008-02-24 10:32:00 Green consumerism. What buying green means to you the consumer, the natural environment and how a whole lifestyle change is needed
Sex & Porn Industry Outsourced
2008-02-22 01:04:00 The United States economy of the 21st century has hit a new low with the current economic recession. Surprisingly, the latest industry to suffer is the porn and sex industry, which is outsourced daily by cheaper “sex slaves” in Asia and Latin America and by the changing preferences of the American consumer. More and more Americans, ...
By: The Butter Stick
Sex & Porn Industry Outsourced
2008-02-22 01:04:00 The United States economy of the 21st century has hit a new low with the current economic recession. Surprisingly, the latest industry to suffer is the porn and sex industry, which is outsourced daily by cheaper “sex slaves” in Asia and Latin America and by the changing preferences of the American consumer. More and more Americans, ...
By: The Butter Stick
What If We Wiped for Our Great, Great, Great, Great Grandchildren?
2008-02-15 10:07:00 We talk about a lot of topics here, focusing on what we can do as stewards of the resources around us and our time and life to love our neighbor. No topic is taboo, so we are going to talk, just briefly about what you wipe with. That’s write we are talking about T.P. We needed ...
By: Trying to Follow
Quit Ripping on The Plastic Bags
2008-02-08 10:27:00 Seems like everywhere I turn people are lamenting the impact of the plastic bags available at the grocery store. The trend seems to have caught on and everyone and their mother are purchasing nice pretty and new canvas totes to pick up their groceries with. What has amazed me is that I haven’t heard anyone ...
By: Trying to Follow
Short Takes
2008-02-03 08:38:00 Losing A Taste For The World My wife and I have just returned from a trip to one of the newest and largest shopping malls in Singapore — Vivocity — to turn in the set-top box and to cancel our cable TV subscription. None of the shops there fascinated us at all, and nothing seemed to catch ...
By: Joie de Vivre
Drop the ?irony? and get a job
2008-01-26 22:55:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kAO4EVMlpwM This is pretty hilarious video ribbing hipsters. So funny & and so true. One withering glance from a hipster and you feel uber-nerdy and akward. No Tags
Can you distain consumerism yet still love getting presents?
2008-01-02 04:30:00 Here's the haul from Christmas 2008: "The United States of Arugula: The Sun-Dried, Cold-Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution" I should be reading more great fiction, but David Kamp's sharply written account of how Americans went from steak and potatoes to fois gras and orzo is too much fun to put off. If it came down to one person, it might be Julia Child. Far from the blathering hemophiliac depicted in that Saturday Night Live skit, Child brought the techniques of French cooking into almost every American kitchen and set the table for every celebrity chef from Emeril to Rachel Ray (though Ray herself might not even claim the mantle of "Chef"). A Sheepshead! That was the net catch from a half day of inshore fishing on the Tampa Bay. Our Captain worked like the devil to find us some snook or redfish, but short of using explosives and a cast net (which I understand is illegal in Florida) there was no getting the scaly buggers on boar...
By: Flashpoint
Crafty consumerism-free fun with Readymech
2007-12-29 09:11:00 It might be a fortnight late for Christmas, but you can still embrace some fun free of consumerism with Readymech. These free, beautifully illustrated flatpack toys are designed by Fwis and can be printed on any old printer. All you need is some double-sided tape, 15 minutes, and the burning desire to embrace the arts-and-crafts kid in you.
Crafty consumerism-free fun with Readymech
2007-12-29 09:11:00 It might be a fortnight late for Christmas, but you can still embrace some fun free of consumerism with Readymech. These free, beautifully illustrated flatpack toys are designed by Fwis and can be printed on any old printer. All you need is some double-sided tape, 15 minutes, and the burning desire to embrace the arts-and-crafts kid in you.
The Loneliness of Consumerism
2007-12-28 09:05:00 I happen to find this publicity stunt both beautiful and somehow saddening. What’s happened to DON’T FENCE ME IN? (Cole Porter) Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above, Don't fence me in Let me ride through the wide open country that I love, Don't fence me in Let me be by myself ... SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Loneliness of Consumerism", url: "http://thepoliticsofdebt.com/?-p=302" });
The Day After: Christmas Hangover
2007-12-27 06:01:00 I thoroughly enjoyed Christmas. Time with family is always a good thing, and with lots of babies around, the joy is that much greater. However, here we are, the day after, and I’m experiencing the same Christmas Hangover I’ve experienced the last few years. You wake up and there’s wrapping paper strewn about, the house is ...
By: Trying to Follow
Interesting movie on consumerism, commercialism, retail and religion - "Wha
2007-12-25 00:16:00 The movie opens this month, maybe in your city too. I'd love to see it, looks right in HP's sweet spot.I do hope that as housing and the economy melt down next year, that people think more about what they're buying, who they're buying it from, why they're buying it, how they're paying for it, how it was made, how it was marketed, how it was shipped, who made it, and where it comes from.Our culture has a problem, perhaps even an addiction. But the collective consciousness is changing. And that's a good thing.
By: Housing PANIC
Compact Fluorescent to Become Mainstream » Consumerism Commentary: A Person
2007-12-19 12:48:00 Compact Fluorescent to Become Mainstream » Consumerism Commentary: A Personal Finance Blog: "Congress will likely pass a bill this week that will have a positive effect on global warming. The bill requires requires light bulb manufacturers to create products that consume 25% to 30% less energy than the typical incandescent bulbs on the market today by 2012 to 2014. The goal doesn?t end there; by 2020, light bulbs must be 70% more efficient. Compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) already meet this objective, but they cost four times comparable incandescent bulbs on average.The good news is they last much, much longer. The difference in price is easily recovered due to the bulb?s long life. Additionally, replacing one incandescent bulb with a fluorescent will save an average consumer $5 on their electricity bill each year. With bulbs costing $4, there is no argument that a switch to compact fluorescent isn?t worth it.I have compact fluorescent bulbs in most of the sockets in my apartment. I...
MAXINE: When Green Thinking And Consumerism Collide
2007-12-19 12:46:00 MAXINE: When Green Thinking And Consumerism Collide: "efficiency is a measure of how much energy is needed for a product to perform its function. For example, CFLs are more energy efficient than incandescent bulbs because they generate the same amount of light using less energy. Reducing energy use is important to reduce human impacts on climate change"Link
Repent Ye Repent Ye the Shopocalyps is at Hand
2007-12-14 19:01:00 Saturday night Kate, Kate’s brother and father, and I went to see a movie called What Would Jesus Buy, an entertaining documentary about Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir. Reverend Billy believes the US has lost its soul to consumerism and he and his rag-tag choir are hitting the streets to get Americans ...
Pope Laments Christmas Consumerism
2007-12-12 01:50:00 Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday criticized “materialistic” ways of celebrating Christmas, pressing the Vatican’s campaign against unbridled consumerism. His brief comments, delivered from the window of his private studio to pilgrims below in St. Peter’s Square, built on his dismay that ever younger boys and girls are caught up in consumer pursuits. “The way of living out, ...
By: Templar Globe
Musical Uncle Santa Snowglobe
2007-12-03 07:04:00 You read that right. It really does exist, the Musical Uncle Santa Snowglobe was won fair and square by Neil and I at a Christmas Curry party we went to this weekend. As you can see from the picture, it is much like your average Santa snowglobe, with the glaring irregularity that this Santa clearly ...
The Link Between Consumerism and Depression
2007-11-27 03:57:00 From Alternet: Buddha, Spinoza, and Jesus all came to a similar conclusion about despair -- quite a different one than that reached by the modern mental health establishment. Although each described it differently, Buddha, Spinoza, and Jesus concluded that the source of our misery is avarice, material attachment, and self-absorption. While each used different language, they all provided a path
Big Box Facts
2007-11-24 20:33:00 My pal Ash cares deeply about many things. She quite a passionate person, and the one who organized the “Shop Outside the Box” parade. She is not only passionate, she is articulate and not afraid of cold-hard facts and substantiated evidence for a cause. Please read her article that touches on the factual sins of ...
Open Thread: Black Friday, Consumerism and Psychotic People in the Stores &
2007-11-24 20:22:00 Ah, Black Friday. The crazy, faux holiday devoted to a shopping day setup by the retailers and their parent corporations to bring people into the stores and spend money for stuff they may or may not need.Yes, and the media feeds it.There is nothing in the world that would make me ever wait out in the cold to save a few bucks, much less run into some psychos out there. Ah, the joy of waiting outside after Thanksgiving just to shop - oh joy. I, in my right mind would never participate in it, but my sister did and she said people were crazy. I mean, normally rational, polite in public and sensible people go all buckwild for stuff and in some instances put their safety at risk.The thing that is tad disturbing is that the retailers lure people with "doorbusters", ridiculously priced items to get people in the door. Of course, they have "limited quantities" of the cheap stuff, so unless you had been in line since Wednesday, you're not getting anything unless you are just beyond aggressiv...
By: The Oriole Post
?Black Friday? Inspiration
2007-11-24 18:34:00 Yesterday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, I found myself at the Mall in Columbia, MD. I knew it was ?Black Friday? , but I had no choice. Chai, my wife?s “lovely” dog, enlisted my glasses as a chew toy, and I was blind. The mall was a madhouse, and maybe not just figuratively: A 2006 Stanford University study ...
Will freecycling be allowed in this anti-consumerism reality TV show?
2007-11-20 17:19:00 On MoneySavingExpert there is a report that a new reality TV show is being planned with a request for people to refrain from buying anything for six or twelve months. Now one has to ask what the goal of this programme is. Is it to see how well one can live without buying, or is ...
Ahh, How I?ve Missed Consumerism?
2007-11-18 02:56:00 One of the ways we’ve managed to keep to our budget so well was that we steered clear of temptation. The last couple of months we didn’t go out to eat often to avoid spending too much there, and we didn’t go shopping anywhere except the grocery store (and then, with a specific list). We ...
By: A Penny Closer
Buy Nothing Day, November 24th.
2007-11-14 01:26:00 Are you participating in this years Buy Nothing Day? This day, which falls on November 24th, is meant to raise awareness of our consumer shopping and spending habits. It aims to remind us that we don’t need to buy things in order to have fun or feel complete. There are many things to do on November ... |
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