Post by diogenes on Nov 25, 2004 21:04:25 GMT -5
Friday November 26 is Buy Nothing Day.
Has shopping become your major form of entertainment? Are you a shopaholic, or perhaps merely a heavy shopper? Try quitting cold turkey on Friday November 26, international Buy Nothing Day. Celebrate by doing nothing. Participate through non-participation.
Buy Nothing Day is the creation of Adbusters, an internationally recognized magazine originating and still located in Vancouver, B.C. It is an environmental response to the relentless pressure on us all to consume more and more and enjoy less and less.
Lynn Jones, writing on Straight Goods, says "Lots of shopping is good for the economy, but unfortunately it's bad for a lot of other things. We are rapidly using up resources, creating toxic pollution and heating up the earth through all this consumption. It has been estimated that if everyone now alive consumed at the same rate as the average North American, we would need seven planets to supply all the raw materials and absorb all the waste."
Check out the Adbusters website for their spoof advertisements, and remember Adbusters has been stopped from advertising on the CBC, CanWest Global, CTV, and CHUM on the grounds that their ads would be "counter-productive."
Can you believe it?
Has shopping become your major form of entertainment? Are you a shopaholic, or perhaps merely a heavy shopper? Try quitting cold turkey on Friday November 26, international Buy Nothing Day. Celebrate by doing nothing. Participate through non-participation.
Buy Nothing Day is the creation of Adbusters, an internationally recognized magazine originating and still located in Vancouver, B.C. It is an environmental response to the relentless pressure on us all to consume more and more and enjoy less and less.
Lynn Jones, writing on Straight Goods, says "Lots of shopping is good for the economy, but unfortunately it's bad for a lot of other things. We are rapidly using up resources, creating toxic pollution and heating up the earth through all this consumption. It has been estimated that if everyone now alive consumed at the same rate as the average North American, we would need seven planets to supply all the raw materials and absorb all the waste."
Check out the Adbusters website for their spoof advertisements, and remember Adbusters has been stopped from advertising on the CBC, CanWest Global, CTV, and CHUM on the grounds that their ads would be "counter-productive."
Can you believe it?