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How Better Parenting Could Produce Fewer Greedy Bankers and More People Who Care About the Future of the Earth

Toni Nagy, AlterNet. September 28, 2011.

Avoiding the "mommy and daddy" issues that lead to retail therapy and consumerism, changing how we raise our children could nurture a generation that will actualize sustainability.

Sexual Puritanism and Empire: Sex, Shame, and Military Might

Phil Rockstroh, AlterNet. June 13, 2011.

What "character issues" come into play involving an individual’s complicity in the maintenance of blood-fueled imperium?

Ethos: New Documentary Calls for Consumers to Reclaim Power

Megan Driscoll, AlterNet. January 31, 2011.

In his new documentary, Pete McGrain details the ever-expanding systemic quandaries that plague our society and the steps necessary to resolve them.

Downsize Nation: Welcome to the New, Smaller American Dream

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. December 8, 2010.

As heartbreaking as the job losses and foreclosures are, there is also a bright side to the downward economy -- Americans are beginning to see that "less is more."

The Great American Apparel Diet: A Support Group for People Who Mindlessly Buy Too Many Clothes

David Bollier, On the Commons. November 3, 2010.

TGAAD is a self-help group of mostly women and a few men who have decided to completely stop buying new clothes for a entire year.

10 Things You Really, Really Don't Need

Katherine Butler, EcoSalon. October 15, 2010.

The Great Recession has shifted our shopping habits. Here are some items you might want to do without.

How You Can Have a Free House

Michael Janzen, YES! Magazine. August 18, 2010.

The author had a big house and a big mortgage. Then the financial crisis hit, and he wondered just how small, and how cheap, a house could be.

The Price of a Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization

Gordon Laird, Palgrave Macmillan. July 2, 2010.

Most of us know that, at some level, cheap stuff comes with a price. But what does it mean to have discounting as the defining force within the whole economy?

Our Obsession With Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities and Our Health

Annie Leonard, Free Press, Simon & Schuster. March 16, 2010.

A new book questioning our consumerism says we spend more on shoes and jewelry than higher education; more on ocean cruises than providing drinking water for all.

Joe Bageant: Americans Are "Hope Fiends" Because Honestly Looking at the Present Situation Would Destroy Just About Everything We Hold As Reality

Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. March 1, 2010.

An awareness of class makes clear who is screwing whom. That's why American capitalism's official line is that we are a "classless society."

Mall Riots: Why Are Some Americans Becoming Violent Shoppers?

Seth Sandronsky, AlterNet. February 11, 2010.

Americans used to protest in the streets; now some have resorted to fighting each other in shopping malls. What happened?

Are Americans a Broken People? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression

Are Americans a Broken People? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression

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A psychologist asks: Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?

How Free-Market Delusions Destroyed the Economy

Raj Patel, Picador Press. November 30, 2009.

The worship of free markets set off the economic meltdown.

With a Billion People Living on Less Than $1 a Day, Is Buying Luxury Shoes Ethical?

Astra Taylor, The New Press. August 13, 2009.

Ethicist Peter Singer argues that it's pretty black and white when it comes to making choices about where you spend your money.

How Outlet Malls Have Convinced Shoppers into Thinking They're Getting a Sweet Deal

Ellen Rupel Shell, The Penguin Press. August 8, 2009.

Are America's 55 million outlet shoppers scoring great deals on expensive brandname products, or getting less than they're bargaining for?

The Corporate Media State Has Deformed American Culture -- Time to Fight Back

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 30, 2009.

Progressives must embrace emotion and passion to counter the force of corporate propaganda.

The Economic Crisis Isn't All Bad; It's a Chance for Us and Obama to Reimagine How We Live Our Lives

The Economic Crisis Isn't All Bad; It's a Chance for Us and Obama to Reimagine How We Live Our Lives

Benjamin R. Barber, The Nation. January 28, 2009.

Capitalism is on its knees and now we have a chance to create higher ideals beyond career climbing and mindless consumerism.

Someone Take Away Thomas Friedman's Computer Before He Types Another Sentence

Matt Taibbi, New York Press. January 22, 2009.

Reading Thomas Friedman is like listening to the man talking to himself. His latest book, Hot, Flat and Crowded, is no different.

How We Can Live with Less and Still Feel Rich

David Villano, Miller-McCune.com. December 24, 2008.

Here's how government can help curb America's seemingly endless appetite for "more."

Death by Shoppers -- Haunted by Wal-Mart

Rene Ciria-Cruz, New America Media. December 10, 2008.

Perhaps we need a big public health campaign to start curbing uncontrolled shopping.

Wal-Mart Shoppers Trample and Kill Employee Jdimytai Damour, Keep Shopping

Baratunde Thurston, Jack & Jill Politics AlterNet: Video. December 1, 2008.

A failure of values at the largest and smallest scales of society.

Black Friday Indeed: Man Trampled and Killed at Wal-Mart

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. November 29, 2008.

A worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Wal-Mart.

How to Tart Up Your Infant

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. November 27, 2008.

For a start, dress them up like a tiny prostitute.

Will the Financial Crisis Put an End to Reckless, Planet-Destroying Consumption?

Orion Kriegman, Richard Rosen, AlterNet. November 24, 2008.

The spiraling economy has forced the American consumer to halt and take stock. And that's a good thing.

Too Much Stuff: How Our Profligate Consumerism Might Keep Us in Iraq

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. November 21, 2008.

Wherever we go, our "stuff" goes with us -- in such large quantities that removing it could prove more daunting than invading in the first place.

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