From money management to zero waste.
| | | | 10 Mantras to Keep Your Spending in Check | | Now we know how Katherine spent her Thanksgiving break: reading how-to books. The first is how to control spending, which is also a good way to control your carbon footprint. But it is hard, as she notes in point number 10. The economic system is desiged this way; as Victor Lebow said 60 years ago: "Our enormously productive economy ... demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption ... We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced, and discarded at an ever-increasing rate." | | |
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