Thursday, January 17th, 2008
It's time to talk about garbage. Why not? If you're an average American, you produced about 4.6 pounds of it today.
To be fair, that 4.6 pounds (which, technically, was a statistic from 2006), is before some of that trash was recovered to be recycled, composted or combusted for energy. Only ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Anticonsumerism is really as broad a topic as business is, but there are several topics I plan to focus on in particular in this blog.
1. Anticonsumer efforts themselves
Did you know that Slow Down Week starts Monday? It's an effort by the folks at anticonsumer magazine Adbusters to get people to ...
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