Tag Archives: consumerism

Just a quick post to highlight a documentary that I downloaded over the weekend.  The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard is an excellent and quick study on consumerism, which she describes as a system in crisis.  Her description of a linear system being unsustainable is very interesting, quote: “you cannot run a linear system […]

The bank and financial lobby’s top legislative priority is to kill an Obama administration proposed new consumer protection agency with generous help from Congressional Republicans that would be dedicated solely to protecting consumers’ financial interests from unfair and unethical business practices.