What Sports Can Teach You About the Satisfaction of Enough
We’ve spent a lot of time this month talking about some of the less desirable elements of sports like their carbon footprint and their increasingly concerning relationship with consumerism. But we’d be entirely remiss if we didn’t also take some time to talk about the wonderful parts of sports. The mission of Postconsumers is to help you find the satisfaction of enough – and that includes helping you realize ways to fulfill yourself [...]
Adding up the Carbon Footprint of a Tailgate
Sports just aren’t about the athletes participating in them. They’re also about the fans who enjoy them and who also participate in a different way. In fact, as we’ve pointed out several times in this month of content devoted to consumerism, environmentalism and sports, it’s often the fans who can control how much carbon footprint or consumer impact a sport or sporting event has. After all, it’s the fans eating the concessions, the [...]
Rachel Carson Quote: The Edge of the Sea
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The Relationship Between the Industrial Sports Complex and the Media Machine
In a perfect world, there would be no relationship between the pure pursuit of sports and the consumer media machine – and that would be true even with the existence of professional sports. But as wonderful as the world can be, we don’t live in a perfect world and these two institutions are as entwined as they can possibly be. However, in our often ad-blind society we can easily fall into the habit [...]
Rachel Carson Quote: Nothing Exists Alone
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Celebrity Athlete Endorsements and Consumerism – Teaching Kids the Realities
Whether we like it or not, one of the most powerful tools that the consumer media machine has at its disposal is the power of the celebrity endorsement. We don’t necessarily pretend to understand it, but we’re also not immune from it. Put the right celebrity in front of us and even the most ardent Postconsumers will find themselves listening and being influenced. And one of the most popular types of celebrity endorsement [...]
How Green are Stadiums Really Making Themselves?
In the past decade, an increasing number of sports stadiums and arenas have launched larger scale PR efforts to let the event-going public know in no uncertain terms that they’re making their venues and their daily practices much more green and eco-friendly. And those press releases made everybody who went to those stadiums feel better about going – except of course for the unconverted who neither read the press release nor have come [...]
Rachel Carson Quote: Story of the Earth
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Five Ways to Stay Green at America’s Pastime
Spring means Spring Training! At least it does if you love baseball, and much of America does. The sport has the greatest history in America and, while the gladiators of the NFL may have taken over the television ratings, baseball will probably always be America’s pastime. Even if you don’t watch or attend many games during the (long) regular season, many Americans get wrapped up in the return of baseball every spring. And [...]
Rachel Carson Quote: The Mastery of Ourselves
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