Fall in Love with Your Idea of Enough
Postconsumers is gearing up for the Valentine's fun ahead so I thought it would be a good time to quickly talk about falling in love. Oh, I don’t mean the usual romance or the once-in-a-lifetime romance or even the spectacular romance of life itself. I mean the every pore of your body, every moment of your day, every throb of your spirit kind of love. I mean fall in love with your idea [...]
Thinking Inside the Bawx
I just heard that Bawx hopes to keep going after the winter holiday season, which may be outdated news but hey, it’s too good to pass up. What is Bawx? It’s a statement on our culture’s addictive consumerism, among other things, that offers a well-designed product any young child would love: a 100% recycled, sturdy, 2-ft-cubed, empty cardboard box. They sell four models that range in price from $24.99 to $499.99, but all [...]
Twenty Steps to Go Media Free (Or Media “Less”)
With the New Year here, we decided this month to focus on one of our favorite suggested New Year’s resolutions – learning to reduce media consumption in your life. Why is this so important? The consumer media machine sends its message to you … through the media! In particular, messages are sent via electronic media. It’s not just a good idea to reduce the amount of media consumption in your life in order [...]
The Lambs of Main Street: New Movie Review
A tagline for Martin Scorsese’s new film The Wolf of Wall Street is “More Is Never Enough,” so how could I not write a quickie blog about it? I was expecting the slogan to be one of the themes of course, but I had no idea that it’s virtually the only focus of the movie: never enough money, never enough hubris, never enough drugs, never enough bra cup sizes (“she already has C [...]
Waste Not. But ‘want’ isn’t a dirty word. Holiday Genius from the U.K.
By Olivia Knight, new to the Postconsumers team, based in the London area, and founder of Patchwork Present. Patchwork Present lets friends get together to fund one gift that’s really wanted – piece by piece. Last week I was feverishly retweeting George Monbiot’s article about the ‘bullshit industries’ selling us stuff nobody wants for Christmas. The week before I was sharing a piece by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett about how the festive period should be about celebrating love not [...]
Our Picks for Eco- and Socially Conscious Celebrities of 2013
Before we start, we want to say right off the bat that we know that there is a segment of Postconsumers out there who hate when we write about celebrities at all. After all, what can a celebrity, living an opulent lifestyle and making millions of dollars, possibly know about working towards sustainability and away from addictive consumerism? We’re on record as not thinking that’s true! On the road to postconsumerism, everybody needs [...]
Our Favorite Eleven Postconsumers Articles of 2013
We don’t like to pat ourselves on the back too much, but we think we generated some great content this year! In case you missed any of it, we picked out what we and other readers thought were our best eleven articles. Postconsumers typically updates with three new articles every week. What’s the best way to make sure that you don’t miss one? It’s our email list! We only send once at the [...]
Six Great 2013 Lists from Postconsumers
If you read Postconsumers.com regularly, then you know that we love making lists and countdowns. Call it our mild-grade OCD kicking into gear! This year, we made lots of lists, but we think our “Big Six” are the ones you’ll enjoy the most. 10 Surprising Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Who doesn’t love a good top ten list? The best part of this list is that most of the items on it [...]
Our Favorite Postconsumer Memes of 2013
Each month, team Postconsumers has fun researching and creating memes for Facebook, Pinterest and our blog. We think that they’re all great, but some are better than others! What are our favorites from 2013? Take a glance. Then get your internet sharing on to inspire others for next year! The Best Way to Conserve Water Is … See more water conservation memes and tips. The Joy of a Fresh Tomato See [...]
Top Five Eco-Friendly Politicians of 2013
If you think that it seems like the kind of year when we shouldn’t be praising anybody who’s involved in government at all, then we mostly agree with you. We, like just about everybody who may read this article, have been nothing short of disgusted by the complete lack of effective action that government, particularly at all the top levels, has taken this year. That’s even truer when it comes to environmental issues. [...]
