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Cynthia Cheng Not all animated movies are for kids.  WALL-E certainly isn’t.  In fact, there are lots of things in WALL-E that kids wouldn’t even understand.  To kids, WALL-E is about robot love.  To the grown-ups, it’s about a bigger issue.  The movie is about how many people, especially those of

After explaining the real difference between the New Yorker and Yanamamo tribes, economist Eric Beinhocker summarizes 2.5 million years of economic history on pages 9-11 of ‘The Origin of Wealth’ — The lifestyle of the Yanamamo is fairly typical of our ancestors circa 15,000 years ago.

Here’s a few basics to practice everyday…a quick list of 9 health tips everybody needs to know to stay on track for a great body and healthy life: 1. move often; move as much as you can…take the stairs instead of the elevator, walk or ride a bike instead of drive. You get the point 2.

As we move towards a world of less trade we need to be thinking about how we will get hold of the things we really need. We can start making the adjustment now in our own consumption. This has two big advantages. First, it means that when the changes come - and they may be sudden and rapid - we will already be mentally prepared.

Many years ago advertisers used the slogan 'Less is more' to sell us unnecessary items, a famous example being the Apple Powerbook laptop series in 2004. As the reality of ecological limits begins to bite into the confidence of late capitalism we are going to see this sort of double-think with increasing regularity.

We all have stuff in our lives...a lot of us have too much stuff...stuff we really don't need. "From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. » read more

I have recently finished reading a book called Affluenza; when too much is never enough, by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss. There is another book called Affluenza which I assume is similar, but I haven’t read it, yet (Crunchy Chicken is running a book club discussion on it and a meet the author.) What I enjoyed about this book is that it is Australian.

Do you feel you over-consume? Do you think the United States over-consumes?

"When you want more than you have, you think you need... and when you think more then you want, your thoughts begin to bleed. I think I need to find a bigger place... cause when you have more than you think, you need more space until you have it all, you won't be free." - Eddie Vedder, "Society" from

Consumerism: Free Slaves By: Joey Strauss Ezvancouver.com Contributor In North America, people are under the impression that they are free. In reality they are more submissive than citizens of totalitarian countries. They do what they are told. They obey to advertisements and mainstream media propaganda.