Our psychology of lack is being eroded by a sensation of abundance that has arisen despite our financial "woes."
Ellen Langer | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living
We either gave gifts as usual this Christmas or heeded the advice of Joel Waldfogel, author of Scroogenomics, who argues in his book that we should not have given gifts.
Cicily Janus | Posted 12.28.2009 | Impact
I resolve to make a list this year of things that will lessen my personal ignorance to larger issues at hand.
Jonathan Merritt | Posted 12.25.2009 | Living
In reality, Christmas for Americans--and yes, even the Christian ones--is shaped more by Currier and Ives than Joseph and Mary.
Reverend Billy | Posted 12.23.2009 | Green
The secrecy and isolation of the Chinese/Obama meetings says it all. The rest of us are waiting outside with the rising seas and the fires and droughts and freak storms.
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 12.22.2009 | Living
As the ability to charge-now, refinance-later vanished when most homeowners' equity evaporated, I hoped the chronic consumer had also become extinct.
Reverend Billy | Posted 12.17.2009 | Living
Corruption is ambient now. A shell with a dazzling, pixilated surface. It's like a Diamondvision in the shape of wind-tunnel. Products, celebrities, Christmas, gunships appear and do their vaudeville routine.
Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green
A big part of the enticement of holiday shopping is getting "deals." Here at HuffPost Green, we think that the frenzy around Black Friday and holiday...
Paul David Walker | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
I believe the next economy will be based on the "pursuit of happiness." There are many industries that can thrive if the "pursuit of happiness" begins to replace consumerism.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
This news arrived via e-mail just this morning: Canon USA wants me to Wrap Up All My Holiday Shopping right now, and has many ways for me to save money.
Peter Bosshard | Posted 11.30.2009 | Green
Americans today are claiming more than 17 football fields per person through our consumption. Since we can't borrow extra biocapacity from outer space, we are borrowing it from our children.
Michelle Howard | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
Thanksgiving does not seem to fuel the eternal combustion engines of American consumption in the way other holidays do, though we may consume a month's worth of calories in one meal.
Jennifer Grayson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
My aunt, who has a heart of gold, has recently become impassioned about environmental issues. Seems great, right? Well unfortunately she thinks being ...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment
As Don Draper reminds us again and again, love is something a guy like him creates to sell us nylons. We buy, we consume, we dream, but we need to build something real again.
Reverend Billy | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
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 12.02.2009 | 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 11.23.2009 | 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.
Schuyler Brown | Posted 01.05.2010 | Living