How Much Is Enough?

Overview

GREEN CONSUMERISM
This is where people purchase or participate in goods or services which attempt to replace existing ones with something designed to be 'friendlier' and less damaging to ecosystems and natural planetary defenses.

ETHICAL CONSUMERISM
This is a development of green consumerism which considers a variety of wider issues than just a product's green credentials, such as whether or not the manufacturer invests in the arms trade or has supported oppressive regimes. Through a comprehensive monitoring of the behavior of modern business, ethical consumerism aims to encourage trade to be as responsible as is possible within the current economic system.

ANTI CONSUMERISM...
However, challenges many of the assumptions about what is needed in contemporary society. Taking the view that the rich nations of the world are fundamentally damaging the planet and themselves in the pursuit of material acquisition, it raises the question, "How much is enough?" Rather than just buying green or ethically-produced goods, different ways of living, trading and working are advocated in order to 'live more lightly' on the Earth and be less dependent on buying things to feel good about ourselves.

Source: statement from ENOUGH!

·  Path to Freedom.com - Simple living directory.

·  Culture Jammers Network - Anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters.

·  Overcoming Consumerism - Citizen's activist anti-consumerism site.

·  Never ENOUGH? - Anti-consumerism campaign..

·  AFFLUENZA - PBS program on the epidemic of over consumption.

·  Commercial Alert - Protecting children and communities from commercialism.

·  Global Excess - Information about anti-consumerism.

·  Buy Nothing Day - Spend a day without spending.

·  Yahoo! Directory - Voluntary simplicity.

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