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One part of our city is at war with the rest of us, and tries to normalize this violence with thousands of hours of family-friendly images of happy leaders.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
A major theme throughout No Impact Week has been consumption, and how much we buy (and waste!) that is unnecessary. Here at HuffPost Green we've been ...
Renée Loux | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Understanding the "life-cycle" of any consumable good offers a fairly accurate sense of how "green" it really is -- basically, where things come from and what happens to them when we are done with them.
Matthew Modine | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green
Can we transform from a society of consumers to a culture of sustainability? I think we can because history has shown that the human spirit is capable of so many things. Like going to the moon. Yes, we can.
Schuyler Brown | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Neophilia is in itself a new word. It was popularized around 1999 in techie and sci-fi subcultures to describe the trait of being enthralled by all things novel.
Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
At the end of last year, our friends at The Fresh Ideas Group went out on a limb with some public predictions about how Americans would act in 2009. As the year winds down, let's see how they did.
Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
Were he alive today, I have no doubt Gandhi would be utterly appalled at the direction the world and his own country India have taken.
Reverend Billy | Posted 09.23.2009 | New York
The city-as-monoculture can only continue with surveillance, stop-and-frisks, eminent domain, developer tax windfalls and all the illegal activity brazenly called Progress and New York Greatness.
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
I recently saw an incredible documentary about a Manhattan couple who lived "no impact" for a year. This means they did all they could to drastically ...
Linda Buzzell | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment
Why all the hullabaloo? Many believe The Age of Stupid could be the next, far hipper "An Inconvenient Truth."
Michelle Renee | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
United Airlines is emerging from a bankruptcy filing and flying in the wrong direction when it comes to customer satisfaction. Robbing customers blind every chance they get is simply bad business.
Jeffrey Hutchison | Posted 09.19.2009 | Style
Embracing sustainability and crafting a new face of luxury need not be at odds; by exploring ways to achieve both simultaneously, an exciting new era of of design can be borne.
Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
One market devotee explained, "It's a way to give value to things. To leave money aside, even if just one day a year, and to encourage more the exchange."
Reverend Billy | Posted 09.10.2009 | New York
Consumerism is what they call a "totalizing system." It expands outward across the landscape and simultaneously into the individual's psyche. It must expand.
John Prendergast | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
Being held at gunpoint in one of the most dangerous war zones in the world was not our plan, but we were digging into links between the illicit mining of Congo's conflict minerals and a war.
Sarah O'Leary | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business
If you want to sell more to the female population, it makes common sense to place women in agency and corporate management positions where they can make the final marketing decision.
Mother Nature Network | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green
How many times do you walk out of a store with items you weren't planning on buying? The consumer maxim that new is always better has turned much of t...
Jennifer Grayson | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living
If every time we pulled out our wallets, we stopped to think about whether or not we really needed something we might have more money left over for things that are truly valuable.
Anis Shivani | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green
American consumers are being taken for a ride.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
Children are staying home and hanging out with their parents instead of attending summer camp. And guess what, we might end up happier for it all.
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 08.07.2009 | Entertainment
The Michael Jackson we wanted was an ideal. He was lonely, so we exploited it. He was kind, so we twisted it. He was brilliant, so we marginalized it. We were like bullies on the playground.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media
I am grateful to The New Republic for providing the space for long essays on complex subjects.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.23.2009 | Business
Evangelical/fundamentalist faith entertains. It makes money. It nurtures a celebrity culture all of its own with its own TV stations, radio stations, book publishers author tours, rock concerts, etc.
Dan Goleman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
There are about 100,000 industrial chemicals in regular use in the things we buy -- 62,000 of which were arbitrarily grandfathered in as "safe" by virtue of their being used already.
nytimes.com | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green
Who would have thought that a video about how a linear process can't exist on a real, limited planet would be popular with the kids? According to the ...
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Reverend Billy | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York