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• Rent it: A Christmas Carol, with Patrick Stewart.

  
  elephant journal — Authority: 488
  For all those who like to bemoan the commercialization of Christmas, this is a tonic. Charles Dickens’ extended assualt on the “narrow minds with broad opinions” that tend to afflict our rich brothers and sisters brings rich and poor alike back to a remembrance of Christmas Present: a Christmas spirit that is ...
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• Buy Nothing Day

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 570
  Could you buy nothing for an entire day? Even if it meant saying no to a coffee at Starbuck’s, resisting the temptation of a half-price sale in your favourite clothes shop or not buying the new DVD that’s just come out? Buy Nothing Day is an international day of protest observed at the end of November each year. ...
  1 week ago

• Buy Nothing Christmas

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 446
  The latest from Adbusters is great! I guess our economy is dependent on consumption and we gravitate toward Christmas because 1) its there, and 2) we get things. & we have traditions and memories. Here is a report from AdBusters...
  2 weeks ago

• elephantjournal.com’s long-awaited Top 10 Must-Have Green Things to Buy for Christmas List.

  
  elephant journal — Authority: 488
  1. Nothing Why buy anything? Will more stuff make you happier? 2. You’ve been looking for IT all your life and it’s RIGHT HERE. Right here is boring, hard, lonely. 3. But just sit. Do nothing. Keep your eyes soft, open. We’re not shutting out thoughts. We’re not shutting out anything. If you notice ...
  2 weeks ago

• The war on Christmas they worry about

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 145
  What it’s going to take to revisit 350ppm, to reverse climate change, is not carbon trading, wind turbines, miraculous scientific leaps, or a COP15 conference. The anti-technology has been known to us since sustainable times, when mankind didn’t have to transcend his wants, because it was challenge enough to seek ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dive!: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dumpster Diving but Were Afraid to Ask

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 653
  A confession: When I first saw publicity for Dive! I forwarded it to my main dumpster diving partner with the subject line: “great.” As in, “great, now dumpster diving will become more popular and we’ll have more competition.” Since writing a feature…
  3 weeks ago

• Gocco!

  
  Radical Cross Stitch — Authority: 449
  If you’re a twitter follower you might have picked up a while back that I scored a new Gocco set for super cheap and it was PRETTY BLIMMIN EXCITING!It took me quite a while to gather up the confidence to have a go. It’s all new and scary, you see. But I finally [...]Related posts: MRCC gets more press! ... ...
  3 weeks ago

• Selling out for the holidays

  
  JordonCooper.com — Authority: 558
  I have gotten a lot of feedback for my Christmas Gift Guides .  It seems to fall into three categories: People selling their own books/gadgets/junk who are link baiting. People accusing me of selling out to rampant commercialism. People who are happy for the ideas. Let me explain the context that they are ...
  3 weeks ago

• The delusion in Buy Nothing Day

  
  Buyer Behaviour — Authority: 133
  Without the West’s ‘irresponsible’ consumption habits, developing countries would be a lot worse off. Without the soulless global corporations sucking at the pool of cheap labour, many ‘exploited’ workers would have no job at all. Workers wages help them to feed and clothe their family, and boost the income ...
  3 weeks ago

• Notes on a Plastic-Free, Shopping-Free Holiday

  
  Fake Plastic Fish — Authority: 464
  Have you ever had so much fun that you completely forgot to take pictures? That’s what happens when the day is all about great food, friends, and silly games. Our friends Red & Jen (that’s them on the left) hosted a Thanksgiving potluck, and you know what? I didn’t see a lick of plastic. Okay, maybe I ...
  3 weeks ago

• What I bought on Buy Nothing Day.

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 128
  Silence Dogood here. As most of you know, the Friday after Thanksgiving has come to be known as Black Friday because it’s America’s biggest shopping day of the year, the day when merchants hope that consumer frenzy will take them out of the red and put them in the black for the year. Much of the nation has the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Black Friday

  
  Kmareka.com — Authority: 434
  I spent it not shopping. That felt good. Most days I spend not shopping, but knowing I was supposed to be lining up in a mall somewhere on the day after Thanksgiving and resisting the pressure gave me a delightful sense of transgression. I don’t get much of that these days. Maybe I’ll not shop tomorrow too.
  3 weeks ago

• Os templos do consumo

  
  BioTerra — Authority: 137
  
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• 4th Annual Community Coat Exchange

  
  Dee's 'Dotes — Authority: 117
  The Community Coat Exchange was a success! We gave close to 90% of what was donated. Here are videos and links to photos of the event: News Coverage by KSL TV - Fourth annual Community Coat Exchange helps Utahns stay warm November 27th, 2009 @ 7:58pm : SALT LAKE CITY -- As the weather gets colder, a lot of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Today is Buy Nothing Day

  
  MAKE WEALTH HISTORY — Authority: 428
  Celebrate by buying a big old pack of nothing from dothegreenthing ’s amusing Amazero site . Read Reverend Billy’s Buy Nothing Day message Buy Nothing Day UK And Tony Juniper on Buy Nothing Day
  4 weeks ago

• Did you Have a Buy Nothing Day, Attending the Freecomomy Feastival?

  
  Serge the Concierge — Authority: 138
  I cannot lie and pretend I had a buy nothing day, I stayed local, got a few things from the grocery store and a little vino. That was it. Ive never been caught up in the Black Friday craze. The item with the biggest discounts today might have been Dubai s debt anyway. The militant and the humorous celebrate Buy ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sense and NonSense

  
  Fighting Liberals — Authority: 116
  The whole black friday thing just confuses and saddens the hell out of me. I know the reasons for it. Folks have less money, retailers offer big discounts on items on the friday and sat. after thanksgiving and people rush out to buy stuff. I get it, but I just dont get it. After what the world has been going through ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is Today “Black Friday” or “Buy Nothing Day”? Well, Take Your Pick

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 141
  Of course, today is both Black Friday  and Buy Nothing Day  in San Francisco. A Market Street flyer announcing a 24-hour moratorium on consumer spending , inconveniently coinciding with the height of  Zhu Zhu Hamster mania : via Steve Rhodes As BND looked in 2007 at Union Square: also via ...
  4 weeks ago

• Buy Nothing Day Parody of Amazon

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 605
  An absolutely brilliant parody by Do the Right Thing of an Amazon page, promoting a new product called Nothing in honour of buy nothing day. Shopping is a buzz, an energy, but it uses energy too, all the energy needed to make all the things we shop for. So if youve got to shop but want to see the global temperature ...
  4 weeks ago

• Anti-consumo: salta da gaiola trabalho-consumo ::: anti-consumption: work less, consume less

  
  BioTerra — Authority: 137
  
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