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Bernie Sanders has just announced an amendment which would hand over vast quantities of free money to ordinary consumers. My question - how does Bernie reconcile handing people free money with his opposition to climate wrecking...

Next time you plan a trip to Devon, UK, be sure to visit the Earth.Food.Love grocery store. The unique supermarket sells up to 200 pesticide-free products which are ethically-sourced. The store is also completely packaging-free,...

Earth is presently experiencing its sixth “mass extinction,” and humans are largely to blame, says a leading academic. In his new book The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, Professor...

Torres has been working and living in Quebec for over a decade, where much of his artwork has been publicly displayed. "Tipping Point" was brought to Ottawa after the artist was invited by Canadian Heritage and EXMURO arts...

  Sturkenboom starts by selecting antique objects and covering them with a fluid which causes crystals to grow on the metal over time. In this way, every object in the collection is an entirely unique piece. The pieces...

According to Jill Dumain, Patagonia's director of environmental strategy, people need to learn to live with less. “People need to learn how to buy less and companies need to learn how to be profitable in selling less,"...

With fashion as cheap as it is these days, most of us have closets full of impulse purchases that we never wear. That kind of mindless consumerism hit its apex in the US yesterday with the infamous Black Friday.  But instead...

Has consumerism become a new form of modern religion? In a critique against London’s rampant consumerism, artist Barnaby Barford crafted the Tower of Babel, an enormous art installation that likens society’s attempt to...

According to Will Smith, his son refuses to be a slave to money and it is part of a larger trend in values that he sees developing. “It’s such a strange thing. Jaden, my 16-year-old, he has one pair of shoes. He has three...

This December marks the second year in a row that Luzinterruptus has installed the Consumerist Christmas Tree. The first installation in 2013 had been located in the English city of Durham for the Lumiere Festival. Like last...

Photo by Giulio Napolitano/Shutterstock It's mid-December, which means it is peak season for the holiday shopping frenzy. But before you finish checking off those gifts on your lists, there is one important message that Pope...

Although December has become the most commercialized time of year, celebrating the holidays doesn't have to center around spending lots of money on things you don't need...

Photo by Shutterstock It was a black day for American politics on November 2. Nearly twice as many people scrambled for Black Friday bargains than showed up to vote at the 2014 midterm elections. The pitiful 77 million-voter...

To help consumers remember the real impact that their clothing consumption has on the people who create it, a group of activists decided to make the world's largest t-shirt...

It can be easy to get sucked into the chaotic shopping frenzy of the holiday season, but that kind of unchecked consumerism has some decidedly negative effects...