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Lessons from a Waste-Obsessed Traveler
Blog | by Laura Calderon | September 19, 2012
What would it take to make people conscious of their wasteful practices? One world traveler ponders the question.
Four New Books Explore American Consumption
Blog | by Dave | July 9, 2009
Is Your Life Too Plastic? Help Your Town "Bag It
Blog | by Lisa Mastny | July 1, 2011
Learn how you can help wean your community off the plastic bag addiction.
Weaving a Sustainable Future: An Interview with Gay Nicholson
Blog | by Lisa Mastny | October 13, 2011
The founder of Sustainable Tompkins in New York State talks about how she's helped her community lay the groundwork for sustainability.
My Story of Frugality: Breaking My Economic Dependence on My Job
Blog | by Dale S. Brown | August 4, 2011
How one D.C. resident changed her relationship to money and gained just a bit of freedom from the endless demands to earn it.
Celebrate Independence: Find the Local Love
Blog | by Terra Wellington | July 3, 2012
Grassroots businesses are all about a sense of place and sharing. Isn’t this how it used to be? Or maybe, how we’d like it to be.
Faith Communities, the Environment, and Tales of Responsibility
Blog | by Kim | March 25, 2009
Being the Change: Silver Spring Time Bank Is Open for Business
Blog | by Jonathan Bernstein | January 22, 2015
A new time bank is working to kickstart the sharing movement in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Chris Jordan: Paparazzi of Garbage
Blog | by Amy Curtis | July 13, 2011
Jordan's work captures a reality that’s all too easy for consumers to ignore: that waste multiplies, rapidly.
The Pervasiveness of Product Placement: A Review of Spurlock's New Film
Blog | by Amy Curtis | November 17, 2011
Morgan Spurlock's new film exposes the subversive role of product placement in American media.
Mindfulness and Meditation for Kids
Blog | by Margaret Swink | August 12, 2015
Mindfulness facilitator and mom Laurie Cousins shares some tips for New Dreamers on how to be more mindful.
Survey Results I: Conscious Consumers and Activism
Blog | by Guest bloggers | June 11, 2009
Pumpkins: Use the goop, compost the rest
Blog | by Kim | October 7, 2009
It’s Time to Renounce Our Throwaway Ethic
Blog | by Addison Del Mastro | July 31, 2012
The throwaway mentality is usually associated with the wasteful use of consumer goods. But what about food, animals, and even human life?