Our Favorite Meat-Free Thanksgiving Menu
We haven’t talked much about the eco-benefits of eating a meat-free diet. To be clear, we think that what you eat is entirely your business. But the carbon footprint of meat is actually quite massive. If you think about it, what goes into meat isn’t just the end product, it’s also all of the feed, grass, water and energy needed to raise the animal before it’s slaughtered. A few years ago, we laid [...]
10 Reasons You Really Do Want to Avoid Black Friday
We’ve dedicated lots of time and energy to encouraging you to get out and do something else, anything else, other than shop on Black Friday. We’ve even created a list of Fifty Things to Do Other Than Shop on Black Friday. But we’ve kind of just gone along assuming that you’d want to avoid Black Friday. Maybe you need a little nudge to figure out why you’d want to skip Black Friday, and [...]
A Little Check-In on How the Anti-Black Friday Movement Is Doing!
If you’ve been following Postconsumers for any period of time, then you know that we devote a great deal of page space each year to Black Friday and our staunch opposition to it. We started with our piece of content, Fifty Things to Do Other Than Shop on Black Friday, and expanded from there into what has now grown into a full Black Friday Alternative resource center. If you want to learn pretty [...]
A Few of Our Favorite Fall Poems
Sometimes at Postconsumers, we like to just step back and say, “Let’s all breathe and reduce our stress level today.” The nature of addictive consumerism and the rat race for “more, more, more” is to leave you as stressed as possible, as often as possible. The ultimate solution to that is to separate yourself from the world of addictive consumerism, but as the huge resource of articles and web course on this site [...]
We Wish This Weren’t a Real Thing: The Consumerization of Fall Leaves
We consider it our job on this blog to report to you the most egregious manifestations of consumerism taking over the western world. Sometimes, we admit, those examples leave us just completely dumbfounded. And today’s example of the consumer takeover of America does just that. We’ve found a website and company that will actually sell and ship you fall leaves. Yes, leaves. That have fallen off of a tree onto the ground. For [...]
Halloween Quote Favorites: Imagination and Horror
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. More Halloween Fun At Postconsumers All Halloween Quotes Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse Your Favorite Halloween Icons Were Postconsumers The Hidden Consumerism of Halloween Candy Get More Inspirations Like This: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Pinterest | Google+ | Medium Photo Credit: aphotoshooter via Flickr
Halloween Quote Favorites: The Witching Time of Night
'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. William Shakespeare More Halloween Fun At Postconsumers All Halloween Quotes Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse Your Favorite Halloween Icons Were Postconsumers The Hidden Consumerism of Halloween Candy Get More Inspirations Like This: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Pinterest | Google+ | Medium Photo Credit: aka Tman via Flickr
Halloween Quote Favorites: Old School Halloween
“When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.” Susan Orlean More Halloween Fun At Postconsumers All Halloween Quotes Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse Your Favorite Halloween Icons Were Postconsumers The Hidden Consumerism of Halloween Candy Get More Inspirations Like This: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Pinterest | Google+ | Medium Photo Credit: Amy Wagliardo via Flickr
Are You Falling Into the Trap of Determining Your Identity with Your Stuff?
We often mention the pervasiveness of the consumer nation and the aspects of its addictive consumerism. Frequently we talk about these in terms of environmentalism, finances and psychological stress. All of those are facets of how consumerism has infiltrated our daily lives, but they’re perhaps not the most dangerous and insidious one. They are, in many ways, the “easier” ones to identify and talk about, mostly because they are more external and observable. [...]
Consumerism and Your Favorite Halloween Movies
We certainly admit that we’re not shy regarding talking about carbon footprints and consumerism in movies at Postconsumers. We’ve dedicated page space to the carbon footprint of an action blockbuster, the carbon footprint of a night out at a RomCom and the consumerism layered into science fiction movies. With Halloween just around the corner, we thought we’d take a closer look at some of the mass consumerism that gets tied into the always [...]
