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Thu Jan 8

• 6 Reasons Why Nuclear Power Can't Save Us | Environment | AlterNet

Wed Jan 7

• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard: Great video about the whole production system
• WattzOn
• Sunrise Land Shrimp
• Frugality is cool in the cash-strapped US: "... the recession is already reshaping people's lives in ways trivial and profound. Sales of red meat are falling, while cheaper foodstuffs, such as pasta, are going up. Car sales have collapsed by up to 30%, perhaps meaning that the greatest American icon of the 20th century is struggling. Frugal is the new cool, putting an end to hyperconsumpti on. The orgy of credit card abuse is over." For now, at least.
• Taboo Talk in Green Business: Buy Less Stuff | GreenBiz.com: By Joel Makower. Sadly no mention of us. Talking to consumers about buying less stuff just might be the third rail of green marketing. Reducing or limiting consumption is antithetical to marketing, or at least it has been so far. Practically no one seems to want to go there. I'll accept my portion of responsibility .
• Intolerant Chic - The Atlantic: In January, Christian Lander?a 29-year-old Toronto-raised , McGill-educate d Ph.D. dropout who worked as a corporate communications manager in Los Angeles?starte d a blog called Stuff White People Like. By February, the site was a runaway hit, garnering 30,000 hits daily. By March, it was getting 300,000. SWPL?which catalogs the tastes, prejudices, and consumption habits of well-off, well-educated, youngish, self-described progressives?w as refreshing because it?s everything a blog, almost by definition, is not. Rather than serving up unedited, impromptu, self-important ruminations on random events and topics, the tightly focused, stylishly written, precisely observed entries eschew the genre?s characteristic I (though Lander in fact writes nearly all of them) and adopt a cool, never snarky though sometimes biting, pseudo-anthrop ological tone.
• COPE: James Wallis levels with you " Current fun

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