10 Lively Facts About Water Conservation
If you’ve been following Postconsumers for any period of time, then you know that water conservation is an issue that’s near and dear to our hearts. In fact, we’ve got an extensive collection of articles, tips, facts and even memes devoted to water conservation. And our over-use of water isn’t unrelated to our basic over-consumption. Believing that everything exists in limitless supplies is what’s led to the need to conserve in so many [...]
10 Lively Facts About Global Warming
Global Warming. Climate Change. Call it what you like. The reality is that most of us can agree that it’s happening (even if we can’t agree on the cause or what the overall impact to the planet and society will be although most scientists are daunted). One thing it’s hard to ignore though is that our societal love affair with consumerism and “stuff” is hurting the planet in one way or another. It’s [...]
10 Lively Facts About Deforestation
No matter what your stance on consumerism, one thing we can most likely all agree on is that we like trees. Specifically, we like the oxygen they produce and we like the products that can be built from them, though for many people the love goes more deeply than just “what a tree can give.” The world’s forests are essential for the ongoing life of hundreds of thousands of species, plant life and [...]
10 Lively Facts About The Impact of Recycling
Recycling. It’s one of, if not the, only way that the impact of excessive consumerism (or, for that matter, mild or moderate consumerism) can be curtailed. And while recycling has increased in the last decade, it’s still not anywhere near where it needs to be to create a reasonable and realistic carbon footprint for the world as a whole. As you’re setting your own recycling goals, consider all of the following facts. [...]
Environmental Fact: Recycling
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50 Ways to Declutter Every Part of Your Life – Part Five
The final part of our list of fifty ways to help you de-clutter literally every part of your life. Postconsumers doesn’t believe that clutter is just about bad organization or too much “stuff.” It’s an intricate connection between mental, emotional and media factors as well as just the noise and business of contemporary society. Today we’ll tackle tips forty-one through fifty. If you missed our first ten tips, you can find them [...]
Our Favorite Green Quotes – Green and Stylish
"'Green" does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern." Graydon Carter © Photographer: Tom Oliveira | Agency: Dreamstime.com
Our Favorite Green Quotes – The Power of Grass
“You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.” Ilya Ehrenburg […]
50 Ways to Declutter Every Part of Your Life – Part Four
Part four of our list of fifty ways to help you de-clutter literally every part of your life. Postconsumers doesn’t believe that clutter is just about bad organization or too much “stuff.” It’s an intricate connection between mental, emotional and media factors as well as just the noise and business of contemporary society. Today we’ll tackle tips thirty-one through forty. If you missed our first ten tips, you can find them here and [...]
