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Never Enough
Offers a critical look at overconsumption in the first world, which it asserts helps create poverty elsewhere and environmental damage.
http://www.enough.org.uk/
Consumers Anonymous
Promote innovative alternatives to consumerism, for people seeking better ways to live with the Earth.
http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/consume...
Overconsumption: A Scientific View
Is there really any evidence that the world could be on the edge of an environmental breakdown due to the overconsumption and misuse of resources?
http://www.enough.org.uk/enough07.htm
Buy Nothing Christmas
National initiative started by Canadian Mennonites to de-commercialize Christmas and re-design a Christian lifestyle that is richer in meaning, smaller in impact upon the earth, and greater in giving to people less-privileged.
http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/
How Can We Change Consumerism?
Aims to convince people of the case for Anticonsumerism, where people need not feel they must constantly buy new items and use up the world's resources.
http://www.enough.org.uk/enough08.htm
Mall-aise
Offbeat look at shopping centers in America.
http://www.efn.org/~hkrieger/mallaise.htm
The Trade and Environment Database
Links to sites that examine impacts of international trade on the environment, culture, and other issues.
http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/T...
StopSUVs.org
Attacks SUV high fuel consumption, parodies SUV ads, and attacks the war in Iraq and really about oil.
http://www.stopsuvs.org/
Being a Ghost - Doing Very Little - Helps the Environment
So concerned about over-consumption, David has become a ghost (recognised, but having little effect), living on under US$900 per year while buying everything and sharing housing. It's a real-life economics experiment.
http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/index.h...
Consumer Citizenship
European effort, based out of Hedmark University College in Norway, to get consumers to actively participate in developing and improving society by considering ethical issues, diversity of perspectives, global processes and future conditions on a global as well as regional, national and local scale when securing one's own personal needs and well-being.
http://www.hihm.no/concit/
Apoplectic Press
Subversive political and anti-Christmas greeting cards, free graphic images and GIF animations, original protest music and resources for activists and other misfits.
http://www.apoplecticpress.org/
Center for a new America Dream
Information and resources to help you consume responsibly for the well-being of our planet.
http://www.newdream.org/
What Is Anticonsumerism?
Puts anticonsumerism in the context of "green consumerism" and "ethical consumerism".
http://www.enough.org.uk/enough01.htm
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