An In-Depth Look at the GDP Report
The long awaited GDP report is out. Notice it wasn't just durable goods that saw increases: non-durable goods and services also increased. And not by small amounts.
The long awaited GDP report is out. Notice it wasn't just durable goods that saw increases: non-durable goods and services also increased. And not by small amounts.
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.
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.
Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
The Edward Burtynsky Oil exhibit is on display now until December 13, 2009 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. This exhibit features l...
forbes.com | Joel Kotkin | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
If you are like the typical hurried consumer, chances are you don't spend much time considering food labels. And sometimes it can be hard to understan...
Jim Selman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
The epidemic of designer stores is symptomatic of the buying binge we've been on for the last half-century.
nytimes.com | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
If Americans don't start buying a lot of stuff again, can the world economy be saved? What's the global Plan B? These are fundamental questions at the...
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
Dubai may be the most environmentally unsustainable place on earth, certainly among the most conspicuously extravagant, reportedly with the world's highest per-capita rate of natural resource consumption.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
After a 20-day trip, four Japanese social norms made me wonder if pledges for extremely ambitious greenhouse gas emission cuts are realistic.
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."
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
Let's ensure that history does not remember us just as "consumers" of the earth and its resources, but as people who take seriously the God-given mandate to "serve and preserve" the earth.
GOOD | By Stephen Linaweaver, Brad Bate, and Michael Keating | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living
Why Facebook is more important to the environment than solar panels. The growth of social networks indicates a fundamental shift in patterns of hum...
George Alexander | Posted 05.28.2009 | Business
After the stock market rebounds and unemployment subsides will we go forth more prudently or will we return to the delusions of unrestricted entitlement that got us here in the beginning?
Patt Cottingham | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
Goodbye to the limiting branding and marketing models of consumerism. Hello to taping into the richer branding and marketing models of citizenry.
Ann Pettifor | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business
High levels of debt and consumption were not the result of millions of individual decisions by consumers. They were the result of a deliberate economic 'regime change' in the 1970s.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Americans are hunkering down and saving more. For a recession-battered economy, it couldn't be happening at a worse time. Economis...
Grant Cardone | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business
Marketing without a trained sales team is a "one way" vehicle, causing the company to only activate at the point of marketing and then become passive.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business
Credit card companies do not limit themselves to tutoring consumers in the art of financial responsibility. They try to insure that everyone who wants a credit card has one.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 01.15.2009 | Home
When I think of Christmas, I see the stuff under trees: toys and books and computers, DVD players and colorful paper. I don't mean the Christmas tree...
Mort Gerberg | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business
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Craig Newmark | Posted 12.31.2008 | Green
Some folks have cash in the bank, and prices are going down, and they can take advantage of that. There are people who buy stuff as a matter of status and prestige.
Steve Clemons | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business
Economic recovery cannot mean re-enabling the gluttony of manic consumption without pumping up "production" and getting a more balanced portfolio between what we produce at home and ship in from others.
Van Jones | Posted 11.03.2008 | Green
I am willing to concede that Wall Street and the big bankers need some propping up. But while we are at it, we should find a way to bail out the little people -- and the planet.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
This Jewish holiday begins a ten-day period during which Jews spend time in self-reflection and repentance -- I can't think of a better thing for the members of Congress to do while at home.
Andy Posner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green
Imagine a world in which landfills no longer exist, corporations make money while replenishing, cleansing and protecting natural resources, and consumers express their ethics with every purchase.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business