Mark is a friend of mine, a co-conspirator in the Breathe Network. (We worked together on the Conspiracy of Freedom videos that I posted here last year) So I guess I’m predisposed to like and recommend his book, Consumer Detox: Less Stuff, More Life. Well, so be it. It’s a great book, full of insights [...]
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How to really beat the VAT rise
Sigh no more – as VAT rises to 20% in the UK today, we can exclusively reveal fourteen top-secret ways to beat the taxman, from keeping chickens to choosing a less decorative biscuit. Yes, really.
The Story of Electronics
The latest from the Story of Stuff. After bottled water and cosmetics, this little film tackles electronics, asking that they be sustainably made and disposed of properly.
Conspiracy of Freedom – Play
Another of the Conspiracy of Freedom animations. This one was inspired by the Good Childhood report, and it looks at childhood and consumerism. One more to post next week.
Conspiracy of Freedom
“We are consumers, no doubt. But does it have to shape our lives, fragment our communities and damage our world? What if we could resist the pressures of consumerism? What if we could live more simply, sustainably, generously?” Conspiracy of Freedom is a Christian response to consumerism from the Breathe Network, one of the other [...]
Sportswear brands still failing on labour rights
Yesterday I walked past the new 2012 store in St Pancras Station, gearing up to sell Olympic branded gear two years ahead of the actual London games. There’s a lot of money to be made in sportswear, and a pile of it is being made right now at the CommonWealth Games. Last year Nike had [...]
The Economics of Abundance, by Wolfgang Hoeschele
Economics is the study of how resources are distributed, and to that basic foundation most economists add two assumptions. Firstly, that resources are scarce. That’s why there is competition for them. Secondly, that wants are unlimited, which is why we never reach a point of ‘enough’. As one economics textbook puts it right in the [...]
The Story of Bottled Water
For your friday viewing pleasure, here is a new video from Annie Leonard. It’s the latest in a series of six new films from Free Range Studios, the Story of Stuff team take on bottled water:
Logorama
Logorama is a 16 minute short film made entirely of corporate icons and logos, over two and a half thousand of them used as characters and scenery. As well as an accomplished graphic experiment, it’s also a rather neat lampooning of the visual culture of consumerism. The over-designed, carefully controlled world of corporate branding is [...]
Break up with your old appliances
Until very recently, we had a drawer in our house with three old mobile phones, and in this we are not alone. Almost half of us have a unused mobile lying around somewhere, with or without its charger. A third of us have an unused camera, one in five has a computer they no longer use. 17% have [...]
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