For 24 hours, millions of people around the world did not participate -- in the doomsday economy, the marketing mind-games, and the frantic consumer-binge that's become our culture. We paused. We made a small choice not to shop. We shrank our footprint and gained some calm. Together we said to Exxon, Nike, Coke and the rest: enough is enough. And we helped build this movement to rethink our unsustainable course.
buy nothing day!
by Realist 3 Replies latest social current
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MungoBaobab
...And we stocked up the day before and splurged he next!
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Panda
You'd have to shut down the internet for buy nothing days to happen. Cripes Ebay alone could keep shoppers happy. But what about food and gas?
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badboy
In Britain,an extra 3million tons of rubbish will be generated over XMAS.