This month at Postconsumers, we’re really helping you to distance yourself from the consumer machine by giving you a hundred things that you can do instead of watch television. In the internet era, the amount of time that people spend actually interacting with other people is constantly decreasing. With actual social time at such a premium, we dedicated today’s list of ways to get out from behind the television to activities that [...]

  This month at Postconsumers, we’re really helping you to distance yourself from the consumer machine by giving you a hundred things that you can do instead of watch television. We don’t think that everything that you do in your life needs to be altruistic – but it’s nice if some things are! That’s why today we’re focusing on activities that you can do that keep you away from the television and also [...]

  This month at Postconsumers, we’re really helping you to distance yourself from the consumer machine by giving you a hundred things that you can do instead of watch television. If you want to help break society’s habits of addictive consumerism, then you need to let go of the enablers. The media messages you get about “stuff” and consumption when you watch TV are one of the biggest enablers of addictive consumerism.  In [...]

  This month at Postconsumers, we’re really helping you to distance yourself from the consumer machine by giving you a hundred things that you can do instead of watch television. Finding a way to let go of addictive consumerism isn’t a single-step process, but one thing that we know for sure is that reducing your screen time is an important part of it. The more you expose yourself to media messages about consumerism [...]