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Original Technorati articles tagged “consumerism”

• in Blogging
  Consumerist Gets Extreme Home Makeover
  Top consumerism site launches redesign
  by sageone73 / on Nov 24, 2009
• in Lifestyle
  Do We Need a Cultural Diet?
  Looking for creative wisdom and discernment amidst the 'stuff-a-lanche' of the information age
  by jasemiller / on Oct 15, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “consumerism”

• Top French chefs take bluefin tuna off the menu

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 527
  Gersende Rambourg Yahoo News 26 Nov 09;PARIS (AFP) – Top French chefs this week pledged to keep bluefin tuna and other threatened fish species off the menu, whatever the cost.With half of the fish eaten in Europe dished up in restaurants, it was high time for the food-loving nations leading chefs to take a stand, ...
  3 hours ago

• White Snow / Black Friday

  
  Just Blowing Smoke... — Authority: 425
  There was a chance of snow predicted for Toledo this weekend (which never really materialized) , which might perhaps have prevented at least a few of the psychotic "early shoppers" from camping out in front of the doors of stores in waiting for the best deals. Wal-Mart, having already experienced the litigation ...
  4 hours ago

• Friday Movie Night - Frontline - The Card Game

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 588
  Its Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!   Frontline has done it again with another great documentary. The Card Game , perfect for Black Friday , brings us up to date on lobbyists efforts to stop a Consumer ...
  5 hours ago

• Green Sprouts Unveil the Retro-Polka Collection

  
  Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News — Authority: 479
  Here are some eco-friendly solutions for your baby’s clothing needs. Green Sprouts has announced the launch of their first collection called the Retro-Polka Collection. The line consists of beanies, bibs, burp cloths, hooded blankets, kimono bodysuits, tees and pants, normal necessities to adhere to your child’s ...
  5 hours ago

• White House Dinner Crashers Bankruptcy

  
  Credit Slips — Authority: 461
  Some of the news reports on the White House dinner crashers (Tariq and Michaela Salahi) have noted that they own a winery that filed for Chapter 11 (reorganization) bankruptcy and then converted to Chapter 7 (liquidation) bankruptcy. My prurient interest was engaged, so I tracked down the petitions and relevant ...
  8 hours ago

• Sense and NonSense

  
  Fighting Liberals — Authority: 464
  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 ...
  8 hours ago

• Retailers’ Hopes Ride On “Black Friday”

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 660
  Black Friday isn’t the busiest shopping day of the year – that’s the Saturday before Christmas, people – but it is the symbolic start of yet another make-or-break holiday shopping season for thousands of American retailers. And while you’d never know it from the anti-consumer policies coming out of ...
  10 hours ago

• Black Friday 2009

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 711
  READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 27, 2009 Global Markets Hit by Dubai’s Debt Crisis November 24, 2009 Obama Hints at ‘Comprehensive’ Afghanistan Plan November 22, 2009 Obama’s Third Way in Afghanistan November 19, 2009 Enough G-2 Talk Already November 15, 2009 War in Afghanistan: ...
  11 hours ago

• How Black Friday Got Its Name

  
  Unlikely Words — Authority: 429
  This Mental Floss post about the history of Black Friday has been making the rounds, with most people pointing to how Black Friday got its name. Apparently, Philadelphia was extra busy on the Friday after Thanksgiving which caused irritation. I haven’t seen this thought mentioned anywhere else, but if the name ...
  12 hours ago

• Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 143
  Robert Roy Britt writes on LiveScience : U.S. residents are wasting food like never before. While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50 percent since 1974. Some 1,400 calories worth of food is discarded per person each day, which adds up to ...
  14 hours ago

• Thank You for Leftovers

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 421
  By the way, now that you are full of turkey, check out this movie. It will feed your mind. Posted in American, Analogy, Animals and humans, Art and Other Lea Kelley Blogs, Consumerism, culture, Food, irony, Life, nature, People and animals, photography, photos Tagged: Biotechnology, Birds, Consumerism, ...
  14 hours ago

• Therapy 32x More Effective Than Money?!?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  New research finds therapy may be 32 times more effective at making you happy than simply obtaining money. By the way, how much are you spending on Christmas this year? Im more a practical guidance blogger than a dissect-the-research guy, but this was too good to pass up. The journal of Health Economics, Policy and ...
  15 hours ago

• The Ultimate Christmas Gift? Buy Nothing

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 143
  Reverend Billy Talen writes in the Guardian : [Today] is Buy Nothing Day in the United States. A group of people including myself will preach and sing at the front door of Macy’s department store in New York. We do this every year. We’ll be there at 5am, when shoppers who have been up all night wait in line ...
  15 hours ago

• USA the spitting image of communism

  
  Suspense Author's Daily HotchPotch — Authority: 134
  Not many people remember, or want to remember those days behind the Iron Curtain when lining up was a part of everyday routine. Everyday one lined up somewhere, elbowed, pushed and shoved, tramped over people to get inside a store, or an office, or a bus. In those days people lined up for the basic [...]
  16 hours ago

• Alternate Ways of Rewarding Content Creators – Consumerism …

  
  The Wealthy Soul — Authority: 153
  He is a newbie to personal finance but quickly learning from his past mistakes. If you enjoyed this article, get the free RSS feed or get daily emails. Join the free Consumerism Commentary newsletter. Enter your email address here to … See the original post:  Alternate Ways of Rewarding Content Creators – ...
  16 hours ago

• Would Nudity Work Better Than Buy Nothing Day to Stop Consumerism: Some Thoughts of a Wild Cat General Strike

  
  Recreating Eden — Authority: 128
  Today is Buy Nothing Day, an international protest again consumerism. It was launched to be a counter-weight to Black Friday, which is when American merchants finally go into the black in the run up to the Christmas holiday. In Europe and other places, tomorrow, November 28, will be the day. The organizers are ...
  16 hours ago

• Why What You Love Sucks: Black Friday

  
  Dog and Pony Show — Authority: 143
  Originating in Philly, they noticed the heavy traffic due to people going out to shop and named it “Black Friday”. Retailers also would go from being “in the red” (debt) to being “in the black” (back on track).  Lastly, people call this day Black Friday because of the blinding headaches one gets while ...
  17 hours ago

• Liberal Hypocrisy Proven Again! They Want A War Tax But Some Won’t Pay Any Taxes

  
  Politics 24/7 — Authority: 429
      I consistently contend that liberals are hypocrites and that the contemporary, predominantly liberal, Democrat Party, possesses a hypocrisy based ideology. Hypocrisy is so ingrained in liberalism that it seeps into everything from the way they do business to the policies they promote and the double ...
  17 hours ago

• Reflections on the day after Thanksgiving, 2009

  
  Journal of Post-Ralphaelite Thought — Authority: 113
  Its just after 8 AM on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Large numbers of my fellow Americans arose in the pre-dawn hours to stand in line for bargains in the unofficial beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Sorry, not me. I prefer to lounge in bed, enjoying a cup of coffee; newspaper and wife at my ...
  18 hours ago

• Today is Buy Nothing Day

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 565
  Adbusters : There’s only one way to avoid the collapse of this human experiment of ours on Planet Earth: we have to consume less. So this November 27 (November 28 in Europe and overseas), we’re calling for a Wildcat General Strike. We’re asking tens of millions of people around the world to bring the ...
  19 hours ago

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