Facing up to the collective problem of our disposable culture

By Amelia Glynn

Photo at right: After saving his trash for a year, Berkeley caterer Ari Derfel can’t look at packaging the same way again. Image by Andy Isaacson

 

Dr. Ellis Jones, author of Better World Shopping points out seven ways to live sustainably.

A grumpy Momster gets caught up in an interactive world she didn't know existed.

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Consuming products to conserve resources may strike us as counterintuitive, but the approach is exactly what we need. Green consumerism is the most effective--and perhaps the only--path to living as well as we possibly can while bringing our lifestyles into balance with the earth’s capabilities to sustain them.

Dr. Ellis Jones, author of Better World Shopping points out seven ways to live sustainably.

First came Yuppies. Then DINKs. And now comes the LOHAS consumer label. What's a LOHAS consumer?

Thank goodness there are so many approaches to dealing with consumerism and sustainability. Buy Nothing Day and YouthXchange are a couple that we’ve covered (in addition, of course, to featuring the