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living on less nBetter Times Access to sustainable, simple, and frugal living. www.bettertimesinfo.org/ nTips on saving money from The Catholic Worker: www.justpeace.org/printflyers.htm --"Family Food Security:" www.justpeace.org/foodsec.htm --"Saving Money on Energy in Winter:" "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." www.justpeace.org/warmth.htm n"Some hands-on techniques to save resources and money" www.verdant.net/handson.htm n"How Can You Homestead With No Money?" "What many people today view as necessities, people of my parent's generation viewed as luxuries. We have come to view our own spending not only as necessary but as our patriotic duty." www.suite101.com/article.cfm n"Frugal vs. Ethical Purchases" "One of the key factors in living both frugally and ethically is doing with less." www.stretcher.com/stories |
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organizing against consumerism
nPeople Get Ready! A Survival Handbook for Reality www.tao.ca/%7Ecolours/survival.html n"Overcoming Consumerism" www.verdant.net n"Clothespins for the Revolution" A collaborative webzine that focuses on simplicity and mindfulness. "Our name is derived from the concept of a simple object that effectively does the work of a more complex, more wasteful machine." (Coming soon) nBuy Nothing Day (debate) “Why do those in power insist that patriotism requires consumerism?” www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/debate nTips on raising children in commercial culture www.newdream.org/campaign/kids/kids-brochure.pdf |
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movements for economic justice
nBrazilian Landless Workers Movement Hundreds of thousands of landless peasants have taken onto themselves the task of carrying out a long-overdue land reform in a country where less than 3% of the population owns two-thirds of all arable land. www.mstbrazil.org nPeople's Global Action PGA is a network for spreading information and coordinating resistance against the global market economy among grassroots movements around the world. www.agp.org People's Global Action in a Nutshell: www.nadir.org nGlobal Exchange Global Exchange is a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world. www.globalexchange.org |
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essays
nVoluntary Simplicity "Voluntary simplicity is a growing social movement that is important to marketers[! sic]." www.utm.edu/~johnston/papers/Johnston-amsj.doc (Microsoft 2000 format), (HTML) n“Stalking the poverty consumer: A retrospective examination of modern ethical dilemmas” (about marketing to the very poor) www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/pagana n"The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, And The New Consumer" by Juliet B. Schor (an analysis of competitive consumption) (CHAPTER ONE) www.cnn.com/books/beginnings/9806/overspent.americans nExcerpt from Ivan Illich's "Toward a History of Needs" primitivism.com/needs-illich.htm n"The Social Ideology of the Motorcar" by Andre Gorz rts.gn.apc.org/socid.htm |