from the pulpit
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory…
I'm the Reverend Billy.
… Billy Bill Talen | 1st December 2004 Comment Consumerism Fundamentalism Advertising Products Consumerism Politics And Economics Society … hammer-my-brain Fundamentalism. Double Consumerism, our souls choked by tinsel, is a …
Author Clive Hamilton on why we've left it too late to stop climate change, his horror over geoengineering and the urgent need to become citizens rather than consumers
… TL: You talk about the failure of green consumerism, do you think our desire to … used it. People are afraid of change and use consumerism in our types of affluent societies … I don't think we can. However, I don't think consumerism is essential to human nature. Most …
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory…
‘Endangerment of life is ignored when it is real, but sold in bulk when it’s a good enough apocalypse for a movie’
… Talen | 1st March 2005 Comment Apocalypse Consumerism Products Shopping Invisible Article Consumerism Politics And Economics Society … – easier. This is where we must admit that CONSUMERISM IS THE DEVIL! Endangerment of life …
Obsessed with technology, we have overlooked something critical that lurks in our institutionalised notion of sustainability
… is at risk of being abducted by consumerism, the same philosophy that … the angel of technology, and the spirit of consumerism, we will buy our way out of … for. Beginnings How did it come to pass that consumerism abducted sustainability? Though …
The editor of the influential Worldwatch 'State of the World' report on the best ways to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability
… on the best ways to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability Matilda Lee: … at a political advocacy level. ML: Western consumerism has become an almost unstoppable …
Buy Nothing Day is an annual event to protest our consumerist culture. Consumers are encouraged across the world to stay out of malls and put their wallets back in their pockets for just one day. Started back in 1992 in Vancouver, Canada by Ted Dave, it was popularized by the Adbusters media foundation and it has spread to become an international day of action.
… | 27th November 2008 Activism Culture Change Consumerism Buy Nothing Day Shopping Buying … Day is a time to reflect on the values of consumerism and our own participation in … can be safeguarded without exponential consumerism. In 1933 we changed from a ten …
Gard Binney examines the need for an alternative to the dominant development paradigm of globalisation.
… | 11th June 2000 News Globalisation Economy Consumerism Developing Nation Growing The … standard of living among the new converts to consumerism. For the cross and sword of the … already addicted to fossil fuels and wasteful consumerism to adopt a truly renewable …
Sometimes it’s good to take a peep at what the enemy is up to. I spent last weekend reading the New York Herald Tribune, and I’ll sometimes look at The Economist. Both these publications are excellent in their way – the Tribune is far superior in writing and information to The Times, for example – but essentially feed the greed of a business-minded readership anxious to figure out what is going on in the world, the better to profit from it.
… Capitalism Wealth War On Poverty Primitivism Consumerism Free Trade UK US Consumerism Globalisation Politics And …
Now here is an ecological pub quiz question: who wrote the following phrase and when?
… 2008 Comment Supermarkets Tom Hodgkinson Consumerism Politics Supermarkets Supermarkets … People hurl themselves at the temples of consumerism; they undergo absurd discomforts …
Tim Jackson's new book, 'Prosperity Without Growth', is an explosive indictment of the failure of economic growth to provide sustainable wellbeing for the world's population. But there could be another way forward...
… the problem. Addressing the social logic of consumerism is also vital. This task is far … already exists. A latent disaffection with consumerism and rising concern over the …
Bill Drayton is a slight, eager man who straddles worlds. He knows his stuff, having graduated from Harvard, Oxford and Yale, and has a theory of everything.
… George Marshall (Energy), Duane Elgin (Consumerism). …
Janine Roberts describes how De Beers cons the world into paying so much for its cheap, plentiful diamonds and turns a blind eye to the eradication of the oldest culture on the planet.
… International Development Indigenous Peoples Consumerism Politics And Economics …
We were being given 20 to 21 pence a kilo, they were selling them in the stores at twice that, and we needed 32 pence to break even. The prices would change by the day, and then they’d take 60 to 90 days to pay you.
… Labour Food Packaging Food Miles Pesticides Consumerism Food Miles Packaging Fair Trade …
No European country is as reliant on supermarkets for its food shopping as Britain. It is no coincidence that the UK also has the worst eating habits in Europe.
… Label Sandwich Marks And Spencer Supermarkets Consumerism Packaging Processed Foods Fair …
'I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist subversion, and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.' Commander George the Ripper Bush at Madison Square Garden
Katharine Hamnett is one of the UK’s leading fashion designers. In 1984 she famously wore a T-shirt opposing the purchase of US Pershing missiles at a reception attended by Margaret Thatcher. Since then she has campaigned on nuclear power, Third World debt, human rights, HIV and environmental issues.
… Katharine Hamnett Design Green Lifestyle Consumerism Fair Trade Green Living …