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Greenpeace’s Tissue Guide on Your Phone

The USA branch of Greenpeace have turned their Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide and turned it into an iPhone app. I hope that other Greenpeace regions do the same thing as I find myself carrying my iPhone around but carrying around an extra booklet all the time can get really annoying. If you’re in [...]

May 12th, 2009
Topic: Environment, Technology Tags: , , , , ,

54% of Consumers Care About Product Sustainability

Some of you might read this and think “only half of shoppers care?” while some of you might read this and think “that’s more than I thought!”. What I find most captivating is that this statistic is from a survey done by marketers to find out if people truly care about the environmental sustainability [...]

May 4th, 2009
Topic: Direct Action Tags: , , , , ,

Shopping cArt Race in Toronto

I’m organizing the Toronto Idiotarod and I like to think that these sort of crazy events function as art.
We’re de-contextualizing the shopping cart which is a device designed to have people consume more than they normally would. In the Idiotarod the shopping cart is not something that you’ll want to fill with objects. We’re [...]

May 30th, 2008
Topic: Art Tags: ,

Make Valentine’s Day a Little Green

First let’s acknowledge that Valentines day is practiced in Western cultures as a day of using consumption to show affection for others. Done. Now, let’s get to how to consume a little more responsibly.
Buy lingerie that is made in a sustainable fashion.
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February 13th, 2008
Topic: Art, Direct Action Tags: , ,

China Bans plastic Bags

China has decided to ban plastic shopping bags!
This piece of news caught me off guard, I had no idea that they were even considering such a measure. The ban will come into effect on 1 June 2008 and not only does it forbid the use of plastic bags in stores, but it also forbids the [...]

January 8th, 2008
Topic: Environment, Good Fact Tags: , , , ,

Improve Your Self-Esteem and Save the Planet

Consumption in itself is bad for the planet, no matter how you cut it. Material things are generally made from finite resources (like how oil is made into plastic); so the less we buy the better we treat the planet.
This isn’t hard to do. In fact, it’s easier for people who have high self-esteem. [...]

November 28th, 2007
Topic: Body & Mind, Direct Action, Mind Space, Spin da News Tags: , , , ,