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An In-Depth Look at the GDP Report

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Personal Consumption Expenditures, GDP Report, Imports, Gdp, Investment, Durable Goods, Cash for Clunkers, Consumption, Business News
Hale

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.

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Life Cycles of Consumable Goods: Lower-Impact Shades of Green

Renée Loux | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Fuel, Energy, No Impact Week, Lifestyle, Local, Renewable Energy, Green, Manufacturing, Personal Care Products, Recycled, Low-Impact, Lifecycle, Green Living, No Impact, Consumption, Paper, Home, Reduce, Consumerism, Nontoxic, Recycle, Green News, Environment, Reuse, Plastic, Food, Nontoxic Products, Green News
Renée Loux

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.

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Not In Love With New Anymore

Schuyler Brown | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Marketing Trends, Consumerism, Neophilia, Newness, Schuyler Brown, Trendspotting, Trends, Marketing, New Thinking, Green Living, Consumption, Consumer Spending, Living News
Schuyler Brown

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.

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Edward Burtynsky Oil Exhibit: Examining Our Crude Oil Consumption

Posted 10.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Art Gallery, Photography, Freeway, Energy Consumption, Art, Gasoline, Big Oil, Crude Oil, Green News, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Oil, Edward Burtynsky, Slideshow, Technology, Consumption, Oil Consumption, Slidehuge, Slidepoll, Green News

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...

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8 Puzzling Food Labels

forbes.com | Joel Kotkin | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Shopping, Health, Nutrition, Consumer Safety, Food, Grocery Store, Balanced Diet, Grocery Shopping, Consumption, Diet, Wellness, Food Labels, Living News

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...

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Capitalism: Never Enough?

Jim Selman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Skid Row, Shopping, The Story of Stuff, Michael Moore Capitalism: A Love Story, Addiction, Consumption, Capitalism, Chanel, Victor Lebow, Mont Blanc, Recession, New York, Rolex, Designer, Annie Leonard, Economists, Capitalism: A Love Story, Economic Growth, Living News
Jim Selman

The epidemic of designer stores is symptomatic of the buying binge we've been on for the last half-century.

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Consumer Spending: What If Americans Dont' Start Buying Again?

nytimes.com | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Spending, Economy, Consumers, Gdp, Consumption, g20, Recession, Business News

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...

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Village Green: Meet Dubai, Vegas on Steroids

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Unsustainability, Sustainability, Consumption, Cities, Dubai, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

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.

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Does Your Toilet Really Need to Chirp Like a Bird? Japan's Un-green Lifestyle Expectations

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Tokyo, Green, Japan, Energy Consumption, Green Living, Consumption, High-Tech-Toilets, Toilets, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

After a 20-day trip, four Japanese social norms made me wonder if pledges for extremely ambitious greenhouse gas emission cuts are realistic.

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Barter Markets: Can Trading Beef for a Backpack Keep Consumption in Check?

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Secondhand, Consumerism, Consumption, Barter, Green News, Barcelona, Recession, Secondhand Shop, Shopping Tips, Secondhand Clothes, Vintage Shopping, Bartering, Global Economic Crisis, Global Recession, Trading, Barcelona Spain, Barter System, Living News
Kirsten Dirksen

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."

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A Call to Serve and Preserve Creation

Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, History, Leadership, Love Your Neighbor, Global, Slavery, International, Opportunity, Poll, Trade, Sacrifice, Green, Clean Energy, Congress, Emissions, Priorities, God, Poor, Consumption, Legislation, America, Church of England, Slave Trade, Climate Treaty, Christ, Climate Change, Land, Consumers, Polluting Industries, Security, Christian, Creation, Green News
Jim Wallis

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.

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Conspicuous Non-Consumption: How Facebook Could Save The Environment

GOOD | By Stephen Linaweaver, Brad Bate, and Michael Keating | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Environment, Relationships, Buying Power, Consumption, Facebook, Recession, Spending, Living News

Why Facebook is more important to the environment than solar panels. The growth of social networks indicates a fundamental shift in patterns of hum...

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Wall Street Pay Back Up! Look Out: The Bubble Man Cometh!

George Alexander | Posted 05.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Conspicuous Consumption, Wall Street Crisis, Consumption, Wall Street, Wall Street Rebound, Business News
George Alexander

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?

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Goodbye/Hello 2 "Consumer: a Retro Concept"

Patt Cottingham | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer, Connection, Unconscious, Global, Retro, Consumption, 21st Century, Recession, America, Barack Obama, Mindful, Citizen, Business News
Patt Cottingham

Goodbye to the limiting branding and marketing models of consumerism. Hello to taping into the richer branding and marketing models of citizenry.

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Blaming the Victims: Heroic American Consumers

Ann Pettifor | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, Foreclosure Crisis, Unemployment, Credit, Borrowing Money, Food Stamps, Wages, Easy Money, Great Depression 2.0, Consumption, Consumer Spending, Financial Crisis, Business News
Ann Pettifor

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.

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Americans Saving More When Economy Needs Spending Most

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Savings Rate, American Savings, Saving Money, Consumption, Economy, Business News

WASHINGTON — Americans are hunkering down and saving more. For a recession-battered economy, it couldn't be happening at a worse time. Economis...

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Sales People Create Economies

Grant Cardone | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Retail Sales, Business, Money, Recession, Home Sales, Sales, Economy, Economic Crisis, Shopping, Consumers, Consumption, Business News
Grant Cardone

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.

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The Critics and the Credit Cards

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Credit Cards, Credit Card Debt, Bankruptcy, Interest Rate, Conspicuous Consumption, Money, Consumption, Buying Power, Business News
Christopher Brauchli

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.

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A Holiday Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Alex Pasternack | Posted 01.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Waste, Holidays, Green Living, Consumption, E-Waste, China Pollution, Shopping, Garbage, Home News
Alex Pasternack

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...

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Out of Line: Recession Marketing

Mort Gerberg | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Good Deals, Cartoons, Bargains, Out of Line, Sales, Humor, Advertising, Shopping, Cartoon, Recession Marketing, Business, Consumption, Recession, Buying, Business News
Mort Gerberg

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The Recession and Conspicuous Consumption?

Craig Newmark | Posted 12.31.2008 | Green

Read More: Consumption, Recession, Happiness, Green News
Craig Newmark

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.

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Bailouts, Bubbles, Boils, and Trouble

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, New America Foundation, Richard Medley, Michigan, Economy, William Frenzel, World Trade Center, Michael Moore, Roger & Me, Consumption, China, Auto Industry, Japan, John Engler, Recession 2008, Recovery, Business News
Steve Clemons

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.

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Now For A Green Bailout: Twice The Bang, Half The Bucks

Van Jones | Posted 11.03.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Energy Consumption, Green Bailout, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street, Bailout, Earth, Financial Crisis, Green Living, Consumption, Green News
Van Jones

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.

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Repent, The End Is Near!

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Market, Consumer Ethics, Materialism, Bailout, Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Foreclosures, Rosh Hashanah, Simplicity, Stock Market, Congress, Consumption, Capitalism, Economy, Repentance, Wall Street Crisis, Politics News
Jim Wallis

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.

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A New Ethics of Consumption

Andy Posner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Waste, Consumerism, Consumer Waste, Consumption, Green News
Andy Posner

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.

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