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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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Ferraris Not Good Enough Anymore: Oil Profits Inspire "Conspicuous Consumption"

Wall Street Journal | Margaret Coker | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Ferrari, Oil Windfall, Oil Prices, Oil Riches, Oil Profits, Consumption, United Arab Emirates, Business News

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...

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What Corporate Climate Metrics Matter?

Wood Turner | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Consumption, Pollution, Corporations, Green Corporations, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Wood Turner

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.

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Food

Peter Clothier | Posted 04.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Environmentalism, Starvation, Consumption, Overpopulation, Food Shortages, Food, Food Prices, Living News
Peter Clothier

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.

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American Companies Face Increased Government Control

Harry Fuller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: US China Relations, Consumption, Sherlock Holmes, Health Care, Professor Moriarty, Socialized Medicine, China, Sino-US Relations, Richistan, Business News
Harry Fuller

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.

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