They may be too young for Iraq, but think how they could be America's Plan B when the Bush stimulus check plan fails! If we could get every other kid in the country into shopping camp this summer, goodbye recession!
Patt Morrison | Posted 07.07.2008 | Green
Brown may sound like an alarmist scold now, but he may wind up as a kind of Cassandra of consumption. In the United States, we waste grotesque, vulgar, unspeakable amounts of food.
Wall Street Journal | Margaret Coker | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- With oil near record highs, the Persian Gulf is awash in cash, stimulating a return to some very conspicuous consum...
Simran Sethi | Posted 06.16.2008 | Green
To make real progress, we have to not only change our products and behaviors but gain real context for those changes, and real reverence for the incredible life cycles of the things we use.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green
Just as Americans are starting to realize the errors of excess, suffering at the gas pump and learning the virtues of saving energy, the Chinese are headed in the other direction.
Wood Turner | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green
While people across the country are taking action to reduce their own carbon footprint, some consumers are using their power to push companies to take action themselves -- and it's paying off.
Peter Clothier | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living
It's started. The recent BBC World News report on the startling rise in basic food costs throughout the world is alarming new evidence of the trouble we're in as a species.
Harry Fuller | Posted 01.30.2008 | Business
China needs Americans to continue to buy their manufactured goods so they keep loaning us money we can't pay back. Consumption continues as the debt mounts right alongside.
Bruce Friedrich | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business
If we're consuming 11 times as much as people in China and 32 times as much as people in the third world, then it's not just about population; it's also about consumption.
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Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business