This Friday is Buy Nothing Day. As a cure to the wasteful consumerism encouraged on "Black Friday" (it truly is a black day for the Earth when we hardy consumers consume even more), we are invited to participate in Buy Nothing Day.
Almost every day is Buy Nothing Day for me, so I'll probably participate by default (amazing how good a cafe sandwich tastes when you never go out to eat anymore). I'm not buying Christmas gifts this year, either. I've managed to taper off over the last few years by contributing to Heifer International instead. Buying poor people goats and chickens is much better than buying rich people more gizmos and doodads that start out as oil and chemicals and end up as ewaste polluting China or plastic particles bobbing in the Pacific Garbage Patch.
Do the planet a favor and focus on love and family this year instead of unsustainable consumer capitalism.
(That's the preachy-est post I've ever made. Sorry about that.)
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Saturday, December 08, 2007
The Story of Stuff
I found this great movie at http://www.storyofstuff.com. It's about our consumer culture, which I despise so much. A great movie, easy to watch.
Friday, November 23, 2007
International No Shopping Day
Apparently today is International No Shopping Day. Perhaps I will go downtown to see if there are any people not shopping.
I might actually do my shopping today. As I mentioned in a previous post, I will be shopping at Heifer International. This would seem appropriate to go along with the alternative theme of No Shopping Day, which is What Would Jesus Buy?
Well, Jesus believed it was the end of the world and probably wouldn't even have bought sheep for the poor, but if pressed by a culture of consumption, I think he'd err on the side of sheep over HDTVs or other such crap.
Anyway, it's a lovely day. My stomach still hurts a little from our eating spree last night. We had a surprise invitation for dinner with our neighbors. They had the full Thanksgiving spread. It was delicious. How fortunate we were! We weren't even going to have a turkey of our own. I was going to make tuna steaks.
I might actually do my shopping today. As I mentioned in a previous post, I will be shopping at Heifer International. This would seem appropriate to go along with the alternative theme of No Shopping Day, which is What Would Jesus Buy?
Well, Jesus believed it was the end of the world and probably wouldn't even have bought sheep for the poor, but if pressed by a culture of consumption, I think he'd err on the side of sheep over HDTVs or other such crap.
Anyway, it's a lovely day. My stomach still hurts a little from our eating spree last night. We had a surprise invitation for dinner with our neighbors. They had the full Thanksgiving spread. It was delicious. How fortunate we were! We weren't even going to have a turkey of our own. I was going to make tuna steaks.
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