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Declaration: "War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality"
This document, condemning in harsh terms the commercialization and vulgarization of Native American (specifically Lakota) spiritual and religious practices, was apparently first circulate...
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http://puffin.creighton.edu/lakota/war.html
For Kosher Emergencies, Manna From a Machine - New York Times
The NYT profiles the Kosher Vending Industries, Inc. "Hot Nosh 24/6" line. Remarkable.
consumerism, food, judaism, product, religion, viamento.info, weird saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/dining/15vend.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Companies Sell 'Holy Water' | Newsweek BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller | Newsweek.com
Religion-themed bottled water. Spiritual Water, the company that makes the products in the photo, sells them under ten different Christian-themed labels. Other companies use Hindu themes....
consumerism, news, product, religion_news, strange, viamento.info, water saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/74380
Pray-in at S.F. gas station asks God to lower prices
An article from April 2008 on the so-called "Pray at the Pump Movement," started by Randy Twynan of the D.C. area.
cars, consumerism, energy, news, oil, random_sht, religion, ritual saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/26/BUCN10C1KR.DTL
How to Bring Your Life into Line with Your Values - Stepcase Lifehack
Just as with any other project, if you want results you have to be prepared to act — and you can’t act on big, grandiose, world-changing goals. You can only act on concrete next actions.
2008, active, consumerism, goals, helplesness, howto, influence, lifestyle, meaningful, productive, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/how-to-bring-your-life-into-line-with-your-values...
The Simple Dollar » Frugality and the Impression of Poverty
Things that went from being viewed as patriotic and a social “good” to being signs of poverty and a social “bad” are all tied to buying more stuff.
2008, advertising, article, consumerism, frugal, green, poverty, sociology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/05/17/frugality-and-the-impression-of-poverty
The Gospel of Consumption | Orion magazine
The men and women who masterminded the creation of the consumerist society understood that theirs was a political undertaking, and it will take a powerful political movement to change cou...
2008, capitalism, consumerism, consumption, culture, economics, essay, history, leisure, marketing, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/2962
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Death of the SUV
Things have changed, abruptly and for the better. Status symbols are out. Cool to Be Frugal is in. A secular trend in downsizing is underway. Wall Street has still not caught on. Profits ...
2008, article, cars, consumerism, consumption, economics, frugality, trends saved by: meryn more details ...
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/05/death-of-suv.html
Author McKibben assesses current state of environmentalism, urges local consumerism
The melt of permafrost in the boreal north and the release of methane from beneath it is now underway in a big way. I'm not at all convinced that we're going to turn it around. If you wer...
2008, consumerism, economics, environmentalism, globalwarming, interview, mckibben, video saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.eenews.net/tv/transcript/794
WorldChanging: Joshua Farley, Ecological Economist
The reason people believe our demand for consumer goods is insatiable is because we use consumer goods to try and satisfy needs they are not capable of satisfying.
2006, consumerism, consumption, ecology, economics, education, farley, happiness, interview, measurement, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004143.html
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
People asking, "Where do they find the time?" when they're looking at things like Wikipedia don't understand how tiny that entire project is, as a carve-out of this asset that's finally b...
2008, anthropology, collaboration, commons, consumerism, cooperation, creativity, crowdsourcing, culture, engagement, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
Message in a Bottle - Bottled Water - Luxury Water - Mineral Water
When a whole industry grows up around supplying us with something we don't need--when a whole industry is built on the packaging and the presentation--it's worth asking how that happened,...
2007, article, behavior, consumerism, economics, waste, water saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle.html
Juliet B. Schor
Juliet Schor’s research over the last ten years has focussed on issues pertaining to trends in work and leisure, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues an...
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http://www2.bc.edu/~schorj
The Simple Dollar » Review: Born to Buy
I’ll admit that since I’ve read this book, I have witnessed many of the things discussed in the book - and they deeply bother me. In fact, this book made me inch ever closer to a comp...
2008, advertising, bookreview, capitalism, children, consumerism, marketing, schor saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/11/02/review-born-to-buy
The Virtuous Life: Frugality | The Art of Manliness
Frugality forces you to come face to face with the fact that you’re not what you own. Instead of looking for external modes of affirmation of personal worth, frugality requires you to l...
2008, article, consumerism, frugality, habits, lifestyle saved by: meryn more details ...
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/03/30/the-virtuous-life-frugality
The Simple Dollar » Born to Buy: Introduction
Many of us have come to accept a consumer-oriented society as completely normal and suggestions for living in other ways are strange.
2008, article, consumerism, parenting saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/04/01/born-to-buy-introduction
How to Inoculate Your Children Against Advertising ∞ Get Rich Slowly
We explained to them how companies need money to pay their workers and themselves, and how those companies try to convince others to buy their products in order to make money.
2008, advertising, article, children, consumerism, education, literacy, parenting, protection saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/03/05/how-to-inoculate-your-children-against-advertising
Articles of Faith: Consumerism is a greedy society's religion
"consumer" has steadily infiltrated our language and become our self-designation and default definition of what it means to be a person.
2008, article, consumerism, contentment, culture, harmony, peace, religion saved by: meryn more details ...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/350593_faith09.html
Greed In the Name Of Green - washingtonpost.com
When wannabe environmentalists try to change purchasing habits without also altering their consumer mind-set, something gets lost in translation.
2008, article, consumerism, consumption, culture, economics, environmentalism, frugality, lifestyle, washingtonpost, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR2008030403198.html
PsyBlog: The 3 Reasons Money Brings Satisfaction But Not Happiness
People often seem aware at some level that money won't make them happy. And yet they continue to work away earning money they don't objectively need.
2008, achievement, advertising, article, consumerism, happiness, kahneman, psyblog, psychology, stress, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/04/3-reasons-money-brings-satisfaction-but.php
Interview with Alex Steffen, part one | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
What we need to invent: a vision of the future that is both prosperous and ecological, both attractive and sustainable, both bright and green. We need to present an optimistic future wort...
2005, commons, consumerism, control, distributed, future, innovation, interview, leadership, openaccess, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/8/30/85141/8338
How to Avoid Being Enslaved by Consumerism - Lifehack.org
The way to break the bonds of consumerism and see past the mirage of ownership is in building a mind capable of doing this.
2007, article, consumerism, happiness, ownership, philosophy, simplicity saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/how-to-avoid-being-enslaved-by-consumerism.html
The Green Options Interview: No Impact Man, Colin Beavan : amystodghill - Green Options
Our friends used to think the experiment was about austerity and about giving up so much, but the fact of the matter is we're gaining so much. The lifestyle changes that the experiment ha...
2007, beavan, consumerism, consumption, green, happiness, interview, lifestyle saved by: meryn more details ...
http://amystodghill.greenoptions.com/2007/05/15/the-green-options-interview-no-impact-man-co...
It's the Conversation Economy, Stupid
Anyone who plays a role in branding needs to become a conversation architect. Marketers, businesses, and designers must have an intimate understanding of how these platforms are evolving ...
2007, article, blogging, branding, business, businessweek, consumerism, conversation, future, marketing, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2007/id20070409_372598.htm
The Frontal Cortex : Money and Happiness
Not only do their brain cells automatically adapt to their state of wealth, but those same neurons are constantly being bombarded with a new set of expensive expectations.
2008, affluence, article, consumerism, happiness, psychology, self-expression, wealth saved by: meryn more details ...
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/04/money_and_happiness.php
MoJo's Riff Blog on Garfield Minus Garfield
Several folks have already clipped Garfield Minus Garfield (http://snipr.com/22bo5). Here's a review of the site from Mother Jones's "Riff Blog" -- I can't tell how tongue-in-cheek it is...
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http://www.motherjones.com/riff_blog/archives/2008/03/7705_garfield_minus.html
"What the World Eats": a week's food for families around the globe
Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio travelled around the world and documented, in writing and photos, the diets of 24 families in different locations. For some reason the first one on the li...
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952
IBlameThePatriarchy.com on why Valentine's Day is teh sux0rs
Kind of an amusing little screed. I like the re-captioned photo. "Because you have won my heart with this tacky underwear, I will wash your socks and raise your kids for a whole nother ye...
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http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/02/12/how-cheap-is-your-love
How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart - New York Times
Costco's success, pace the predictions of Wall Street, has not come at the cost of treating workers decently.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/business/yourmoney/17costco.html?ex=1279252800&en=8b310330...
Salt Lake City Weekly - Shopping for God
A freelance journalist in Salt Lake visits various Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim and Buddhist worship services and gives a somewhat tongue-in-cheek report.
consumerism, news, popular, print_and_read, religion, u.s.-news saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2005/feat_2005-10-06.cfm
In praise of the faith market - General - In Depth - theage.com.au
From July 2005, an article on Lynn Schofield Clark's work on "religious lifestyle branding" -- the way people in mass-media-driven, consumer cultures appropriate and use religious symbols...
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http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/07/29/1122144004012.html?oneclick=true#
Christian Retailers Put Their Print on Products - Los Angeles Times
A story from the LAT on Christian merchandising. GetReligion calls it the yearly "Jesus junk" story (snurl.com/tv31).
christianity, consumerism, nbrrrb, news, religion, spirituality, viagetreligion saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-retail21jul21,0,7810654.story?track=tot...
This Magazine: The Rebel Sell
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, authors of Nation of Rebels, on "why the culture can't be jammed." If you're upset about consumerism, they say, organize, get active, and seek legislative ...
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http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2002/11/rebelsell.php
NPR : Grocery-Cart TV for Kids of Shoppers
Insane ... A NZ company has developed a shopping cart for toddlers to ride in that has a built-in TV screen. Wow! Via serotoninrain.blogspot.com.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5738235
We know how to eat healthy, but we don't do it
A new study shows that while most people can explain what a healthy diet consists of, few of them actually make the effort to eat accordingly.
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http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=71361&m=1FNUO17&c=tqxekbtsdixmbvv)
Middle-class and broke? You're not alone
An excerpt from The Two-Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Tyagi, who show convincing evidence that most consumer bankruptcies are the result of a layoff, a business collapse, or ...
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3079221
Wal-mart's radical homosexual agenda
"We must go to our local Wal-Mart and help them to stand against this lying, liberal, demon-inspired onslaught." Only tangentially related to the course, but oddly compelling somehow.
christianity, consumerism, evangelicalism, glbt, religion, rels327, viarevealer, weird saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.savewalmart.com
Wal-mart's radical homosexual agenda [6]
"We must go to our local Wal-Mart and help them to stand against this lying, liberal, demon-inspired onslaught."
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http://www.savewalmart.com/helpSaveWalMart.asp
"Ad-Free Blog" FAQ
This guy (an artist) designed a little logo for his blog indicating that he wouldn't post paid advertising on it. People started asking to use the logo. Now he has a FAQ up with lots of i...
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http://www.adfreeblog.org/faq.htm
Hallmark press release on Administrative Professionals Day®
I was trying to find the date of what used to be called Secretaries Day and came across this press release from Hallmark. Kind of creepy -- basically, it says how bosses can use cards and...
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http://pressroom.hallmark.com/admin_professionals_day.html
Wal-Mart will sell religious action figures
The talking Jesus doll will retail for around $20 and is programmed to tell Jesus' life story and to repeat "memory verses" (such as Jn 3.16). Shipping soon. More: http://store.messengers...
christianity, consumerism, evangelicalism, nbrrrb, parenting, posttumblr, posttwitter, religion, toys, viabuzzfeed, More... saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070718/28502_Wal-Mart_to_Sell_Line_of_Religious_Actio...
Do you know where that crucifix comes from?
Via http://snipr.com/1u90g. The Association for Christian Retail (over $4 billion in business annually), following in Wal-Mart's footsteps, uses Chinese sweatshop labor to make crucifixes...
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http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/11/21/crucifixes-made-with-chinese-sweatshop-labor-sold-here
Hip accessories for the Purity Ball set
The image I wanted didn't clip. It was a sign that read: "NO TRESPASSING ON THIS PROPERTY. MY FATHER IS WATCHING." The "property" in question being a young girl's private parts, presumabl...
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http://www.zazzle.com/waitwear/product/239471665225274790